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Rare Birds of North America: A Book Review

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And, as we talked of Long-billed Murrelets and Pink-footed Geese and Nutting’s Flycatchers, questions came up. He has led birding tours for many years and is a research associate at Point Blue Conservation Science. My friends had many more years of birding on me and had many stories to tell.

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Here’s the new bird family tree. It’s amazing.

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The magnificent history and diversity of birds on Earth came into sharper focus this month with the publication of 28 new scientific papers in Science and other journals. American Flamingo photo by Dick Culbert). Have you noticed ducks and quail replacing loons and grebes at the beginning of newer bird field guides and checklists?

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The Sibley Guide to Birds, Second Edition: A Review of an Iconic Guide in a New Edition

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In The Warbler Guide , Tom Stephenson and Scott Whittle drew on science to create sonograms, visual depictions of bird song that showed just how a Pine Warbler trill really was different from a Chipping Sparrow trill. The general location of the section on Ducks, Geese, and Swans can be found in the front, in the Contents listing.