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Galápagos: A Natural History, Second Edition–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

He’s the author of The New Neotropical Companion (2017, originally published in 1997), a must-read for any birder preparing to travel to Central and South America, the Peterson Reference Guide to Bird Behavior (2020), and a long list of other books and articles. The 11th chapter is on research and conservation challenges.

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Mammals of South Asia (Lynx Edicions)

10,000 Birds

Larger species, that is, excluding dolphins and whales. I may have very limited experience with dolphins and no experience with whales, but the illustrations show the entire animal in the way only divers can see it, without a second illustration of the tail shape, something whale-watchers can actually spot from a boat.

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Wild Sri Lanka

10,000 Birds

Throughout the book there are extracts from `A Naturalist’s Journal’, which in the form of a first person commentary take readers to specific habitats in search of the animals to be found there. Publication date 09 Apr 2020. Okay, okay, huge and hard to miss aside, but what about birds? Product details. ISBN10 1912081091.

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