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Just in Time: Kenn Kaufman’s “A Season on the Wind” — a review

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But in the fall (with plumage as in the photo on the left, above) they take an entirely different, and heroic, route, first to Massachusetts and then, after a rest, south over the Atlantic Ocean. Kaufman knows that duck hunters can be ardent, loving conservationists, too. The sense of motion and raw energy is irresistible,” he says.

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

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The story is that an HM editor was also president of Massachusetts Audubon. 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 loved that page title).