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Don’t Ignore the Barnacles – they’re Real Birds

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The Atlas was published in 2020, so these numbers may have been grown since then. The Atlas attributes “the rapid increase of Barnacle Geese to several factors”, of which the most important seems to be improved protection of the Svalbard and Russian populations.

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

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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. Some finches, like Mangrove Finch, have become elusive.

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The Glitter in the Green: In Search of Hummingbirds–A Hummer Book Review

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There is a photo of him caring for a White-chinned Sapphire in the book, the only human pictured in Dunn’s 16-page collection of hummingbird photographs, and it is inspiring. Lovette (2020). There really is an awful lot of cultural and historical material out there about hummingbirds and the people who were and are drawn to them.

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What are the Costs of Changing Bird Names?

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McCown , who first collected it in 1851, but is more known for being a Confederate general in the Civil War. But in 2020, perhaps the app example is more relevant than the book or museum examples. Perhaps the value of stability in 2020 is less than it was in 1983. The species was named after John P. But maybe not.

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Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl–A Book Review

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It is also native to Japan, where it is protected and protectively studied to the point where Slaght had trouble getting any information.). Farrar, Straus and Giroux, August 2020, 368 pages. The fish owl is an endangered species, and before Slaght’s work, very little was known about it, especially in Russia. (It

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Bernd Heinrich’s new book “White Feathers” — a review

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In most every one of his books (or articles, like those that were collected in his last book, A Naturalist At Large ) he poses a question about the natural world — often a question, like the central one in White Feathers, that no one else has thought much about — and then solves it. I saw it because I looked up.”

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Peterson Field Guide to North American Bird Nests: A Field Guide Review

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This may have been partly a leftover from the Victorian fascination with egg collecting (the infamous passion known as oology), but probably more from people’s burgeoning interest in the nests and eggs found in their gardens and fields, gateway artifacts to a newer hobby called birdwatching. Martell (2020). Poulin, R.

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