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Saving Jemima and Julie: a Book Review

10,000 Birds

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

10,000 Birds

Then again, try explaining to a new birder why falcons come after woodpeckers and before parrots! 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.