10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 8, 2023
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.
10,000 Birds
MAY 5, 2020
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!
10,000 Birds
APRIL 2, 2019
Peterson Reference Guide to Sparrows of North America covers 61 species of the New World sparrow family Passerellidae that breed in Canada, the United States, and northern Mexico. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, March 2019, 448p. Rick Wright agrees. Range and Geographic Variation. There is also a strong educational component here.
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