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

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Mark]: This luscious book, Penguins: The Ultimate Guide , by De Roy, Jones, and Cornthwaite, is the second edition of a book first published in 2015. But this is more than a coffee table book. There is a wealth of information about these marvelous creatures, given via prose essays, and charts, and tables – it’s all quite user-friendly.

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Flight Paths: A Book Review Written During Migration

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banding station, 2020. There is also a 16-page insert of 51 images and photographs, illustrating technology (bird bands, a spectrogram of a nocturnal flight call), people, and birds (a clearly outraged Magellanaic penguin wearing an early geolocation device, a Swainson’s Thrush being fitted with a Motus transmitter).

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What the Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds: A Book Review

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Johnson is collecting myths about owls from cultures around the world and is also presiding over a 12-year Burrowing Owl Project that seeks to collect DNA samples, vocalizations, morphological data and map locations for every Burrowing Owl subspecies the world over.

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What It’s Like to Be a Bird: A Review of the New Sibley Book

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copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley. copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley. So, curious about which birds nest in two places, I quickly found out that it’s Phainopepla, a western bird, a relief because I was concerned that it might have implications for my data collection for the NYS Breeding Bird Atlas.

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When Birds Are Near: Dispatches From Contemporary Writers

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She seamlessly interweaves memories of her bryologist father (he collected mosses), statistics on building-killed birds and the Audubon volunteers who collect them, details of modern taxidermist techniques seen on a visit to a Pennsylvania taxidermist, and the sight of hundreds of bird study skins at the Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates. .”

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Better Living Through Birding: Notes From a Black Man in the Natural World–A Book Review

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This is what makes this memoir more than a collection of anecdotes; it’s our opportunity to understand the different parts that make the whole of a black gay man negotiating the natural world and the more challenging, the adjacent “real” world. Raw honesty is felt throughout. It’s powerful writing.

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Collaborative List – July 2018

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Traditionally, the slow season, but the beats have mopped their collective brow and outdone their previous efforts. African Penguin – Spheniscus demersus. Yellow-eyed Penguin – Megadyptes antipodes. Katiki Point Penguin reserve. Little Penguin – Eudyptula minor. And so to summer. 11 Jun 2018.

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