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Birds and People: A Book Review

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It took me a while to wrap my mind around the concept of Birds and People , Mark Cocker and David Tipling’s book that, in 592 pages, explores the intersection of just that—birds and us. Nor have I overlooked “sightings” of birds in movies mouthing other birds’ calls. I’m not sure why.

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To Tick or Not to Tick – Exotic Birding in Miami

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But its not just parrots that are doing well in their adopted city. Dozens of other introduced bird species, largely escapees from pet owners, now call Miami home. Strangely, only a paltry eighteen exotic bird species are countable for birders, according to the American Birding Association.

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Birding By Impression: A Book Review

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There is GISS and there is Birding by Impression and they are not the same. Birding by Impression is a conscious, deliberate method of identifying and recognizing birds based on the study and evaluation of “distinctive structural features and behavioral movements” and comparison with nearby and similar species. So say Kevin T.

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Peterson Reference Guide to Sparrows of North America: A Review by a Sparrow Fan

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My review copy (well, actually a contributor’s copy—more on that later) was waiting for me when I returned from the ABA birding tour of Thailand and Malaysia (more on that in a separate post) in early March. The book does not include House Sparrow, an Old World sparrow that belongs to a completely different bird family. Mexico border.

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Fun, Fun, Fun Crossley ID Guide Giveaway

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How about you… would you like to get your hands on the Crossley ID Guide: Eastern Birds ? Our dear friends at Princeton University Press , home of so many indispensable and inspired birding books, has graciously offered three copies of the new Crossley ID Guide for 10,000 Birds readers. Want a copy? Read on… 1.

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Citizen Science or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love eBird

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I rely on my library of cookbooks rather than Google for recipes, and prefer my cassettes, CDs, and LPs to my iTunes collection. But that changed last weekend at the Chicago Ornithological Society’s 10th biennial Birding America conference. Ironically, we met through a dating website.). And at least on me, it worked.

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Birds of the West Indies by Kirwan, Levesque, Oberle & Sharpe

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Or How a Serbian Suave Playboy Promoted Birding the Caribbean. Oh, the joys of slipping through the pages of a new book that has just arrived, the Birds of the West Indies by Kirwan, Levesque, Oberle and Sharpe. Having a tropical maritime climate, birding the West Indies comes with a lot of water, from sea spray to humid forests.