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Saving Jemima and Julie: a Book Review

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— but there is apparently an entire literature about women who adopt wild birds and devote substantial portions of their lives and psyches to those birds thereafter, often for years and, necessarily, to the point of obsession. As she has done for many years and with more than twenty species, she adopted a baby bird, a blue jay.

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Champagne and Birds

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Will they make a return in 2019? Where have all the Champagne birds gone? One can hope.

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Just in Time: Kenn Kaufman’s “A Season on the Wind” — a review

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But the other subject of A Season on the Wind is Kaufman’s adopted state – or, more precisely, one corner of it, the one that includes the Black Swamp Bird Observatory (“BSBO”) and Magee Marsh Wildlife Area , just west of Toledo. (Kaufman’s wife, Kimberly Kaufman, is the BSBO’s Executive Director.). by Kenn Kaufman. 5 1/2 X 8 1/4, $26.

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Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America, Second Edition: A Field Guide Review

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Species Accounts names and species have been updated to all changes up to the 2019 American Ornithological Society Supplement. The guide ends with the famous Peterson bird silhouettes. Then again, try explaining to a new birder why falcons come after woodpeckers and before parrots!

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Birds of Belize & Birds of Costa Rica: A Field Guide Review Doubleheader

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For oceanic birds he uses the taxonomy that he and Kirk Zufelt developed in Oceanic Birds of the World: A Photo Guide (PUP, 2019). And when writing a field guide, it is accepted practice to adopt one of the above and to stick to it, with any questions or disagreements safely ensconced in the text, not in an actual change of species.

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Peterson Reference Guide to Sparrows of North America: A Review by a Sparrow Fan

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It will be interesting to see if the proposal is adopted and this guide becomes the first to employ the new official usage, or if it sparks other bird guide authors to revolt against the system. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, March 2019, 448p. Rick Wright agrees. There is also a strong educational component here. by Rick Wright.

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Birds of the West Indies by Kirwan, Levesque, Oberle & Sharpe

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Now that I have got your attention, let us move to the new version of the Birds of the West Indies by Kirwan, Levesque, Oberle and Sharpe, published by the Lynx Edicions (2019). The name of the author was carefully scratched off the front cover of the book.