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

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It will be interesting to see if the proposal is adopted and this guide becomes the first to employ the new official usage, or if it sparks other bird guide authors to revolt against the system. I simply think it is confusing to the user to have them listed in the Table of Contents but not individually in the Introduction.

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Feral Cats Are An Invasive Species in North America (and elsewhere)

10,000 Birds

The majority of wildcats live today in Africa, and virtually none of them have provided the DNA from which supposed histories of domestication have been constructed by researchers. Cats migrate out of the parks and live in areas where the researchers found the cats to be both fatter and less diseased. Plus, Coyotes eat Cats.

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The Passenger Pigeon & A Message From Martha: One Pigeon, Two Book Reviews

10,000 Birds

What is amazing is that each of these three books is very different in content and tone. ” (I love that term, and may adopt it for future use.) How many eggs did a pigeon lay? We have a lot of source material. The imaginary scenario is clearly taken from eyewitness accounts, but sources are not footnoted.

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Antpittas and Gnateaters: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Species Accounts vary greatly in length, from nine pages for Undulated Antpitta to two pages for Alta Floresta Antpitta, length depending not only on how much we know about the bird but also Greeney’s tendency to thoroughly discuss, even argue, any kind of confusion in documentation, taxonomy, or research results.

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