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Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America, Second Edition: A Field Guide Review

10,000 Birds

When you review the system, it makes perfect sense: falcons are placed with hawks, nightjars are next to owls, and grebes are close to ducks, rather than separated from them by quail and grouse. I did catch a minor error in the page number references for Lesser Scaup and Ring-necked Duck, which will hopefully be corrected in future printings.)

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“Dog Days and Poisons” – Collective Arts Brewing: Mash Up the Jam

10,000 Birds

In the last several hundred years, this service has been performed by hops, but before their widespread adoption in medieval Europe, brewers relied on a compendium of botanical agents to bitter their beers – some of which contained psychoactive or mildly toxic substances. Tart is tart and hoppy is hoppy and never the twain shall meet.