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Our Favorite Bird Books (and one pair of Binoculars) of 2022

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And the very best and the most up-to-date field guide is Birds of Malaysia – Covering Peninsular Malaysia, Malaysian Borneo and Singapore ”, the 2020 Lynx and BirdLife International Collection guide by Chong Leong Puan, Geoffrey Davison and Kim Chye Lim.

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Sniping: The Final Frontier?

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Freshly collected and en route to some R&R. It toyed with my emotions for many minutes before it eventually flew off. The experience emboldened me to revisit some of my older images, this snipe seen in January 2019 is clearly a Wilson’s Snipe as evidenced by the extensive black on its tertials.

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Adventures of a Louisiana Birder: One Year, Two Wings, Three Hundred Species–A Book Review

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’ “Is this going to be a collection of essays?” Copyright @2019 by Louisiana State University Press. Marybeth Lima tells her birding and personal stories in straightforward, honest language that never skimps on detail (sometimes a bit too much detail) but never overflows on emotion. LSU Press, 2019, 272 pp.

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The Falcon Thief: A Book Review

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2019), and now this book. Author Joshua Hammer, who previously wrote about a different type of real-life-unexpected-caper in The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu , read about Lendrum in the Times of London in 2017, realized the possibilities, did the research. wrote a lengthy article in Outside magazine (Jan.

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