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

10,000 Birds

I like sparrows. I like observing them, reading about them, grappling with species and subspecies identification, and even—on a good day—talking about sparrow taxonomy. The book does not include House Sparrow, an Old World sparrow that belongs to a completely different bird family. Scope of Book. Mexico border.

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Birding By Impression: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

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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Antpittas and Gnateaters: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Antpittas and Gnateaters covers 64 species in six genera and two families. (I Here’s Plate 3, the third plate for Conopophaga , one of the two genera of the Gnateater family. But, then again, this is an artist and photographer who has illustrated and co-written books on sparrows and moths!

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Battle Creek Cellars: Unconditional Pinot Noir (2017)

10,000 Birds

Besides he is a rank coward: The little King Bird [ Eastern Kingbird or Tyrannus tyrannus ] not bigger than a Sparrow attacks him boldly and drives him out of the district. With all this injustice, he is never in good case but like those among men who live by sharping & robbing he is generally poor and often very lousy.

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