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

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Steve Howell has spent decades of experience in the field studying the birds of Belize, Costa Rica, and especially Mexico. For oceanic birds he uses the taxonomy that he and Kirk Zufelt developed in Oceanic Birds of the World: A Photo Guide (PUP, 2019). I don’t think scientific artwork holds less value when used more than once.

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

10,000 Birds

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. In some species accounts, notably Song Sparrow, this text reads as a carefully researched, finely detailed ornithological/historical essay.