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Collaborative list – August 2019

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eBird have applied their new taxonomy as of July/August 2019. In publishing the most current thinking, eBird have become the month’s biggest contributor to the life list, expanding it by 7 brand new species and pushing it to 3774. Today it stands at 2019 , but watch this space! 03 Aug 2019. 15 Aug 2019.

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Mastering Bird Photography: A Book Review by an Amateur Bird Photographer

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You will need to know enough about your Olympus or Sony or other brand of camera to know how to translate the settings info into your camera’s vocabulary. Rocky Nook, 2019 (eBook December 2018; paperback March 2019). Photography & Ethics & Me. by Marie Read. Paperback: 340 pages; 10 x 8 inches.

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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. There is a remarkable history behind the Peterson brand, and the elements that made it a major educational force in the early days of birding still apply.

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Birds of Malaysia – Covering Peninsular Malaysia, Malaysian Borneo and Singapore

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Most of such bird tours are branded “Borneo”, without ever mentioning the name of the country in the name of the tour. There is a bit of further irony in it: the best birding in Asia is not even on the Asian mainland!

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Birds of the World: The Art of Elizabeth Gould

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Images of Nature (2018), and an essay on illustrator Sydney Parkinson in Nature’s Explorers Adventurers Who Recorded the Wonders of the Natural World (2019). It is co-branded with the Natural History Museum of London, whose collections are the source of the artwork. but not too large, and not overwhelmingly heavy.

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