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A Stick! A Bird! A Tree!–Books on Nature for Parents & Kids

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Here are three recent titles, one for the parents of very young children, one for primary school children and their parents, and one for residents of a specific geographic area–Los Angeles County. Wild LA: Explore the Amazing Nature in and Around Los Angeles. © 2014, 2019, Brooklyn botanic Garden, Inc.

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Field Guide to North American Flycatchers: Kingbirds and Myiarchus: A Field Guide Review

10,000 Birds

Sixteen species that have been recorded in the United States are covered: six Myiarchus flycatchers and ten Kingbird ( Tyrannus ) flycatchers. As with the first volume, I was surprised to see the inclusion of a species that has only been seen in the U.S. Introductory Material Sixteen species, 190 pages.

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Field Guide to North American Flycatchers: Empidonax and Pewees–A Field Guide Review

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That’s 18 species in one book. This is more than a collection of species accounts. There are also two pages illustrating the “Holistic Approach,” silhouettes of each species (Western birds on the left, Eastern birds on the right), that allow for comparison of structure, size, and shape.

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A Tale of Three Magnificent Frigatebirds (Two I help, one tries to kill me)

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The species name is long enough to be the middle line of a formal English haiku. For those of us in North America other than the Gulf coast, the only time we might see a Magnificent Frigatebird is after a storm. So we used MAFR, the American Ornithological Union’s 4-letter code. In a quick review, you learn frigatebirds eat fish.

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Arctic Loon at Bonelli Park

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When you think of southern California in June there are a variety of things that could come to mind. Yet, somehow, on 31 May one was discovered on Puddingstone Reservoir, the large man-made lake that is the center of Bonelli Park, a nearly 2,000 acre expanse in San Dimas, just east of Los Angeles.

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The ABA’s 50th Anniversary and Information: From Scarce to Abundant

10,000 Birds

The Lab operates All About Birds , which has free and authoritative information on identification and bird biology, as well as Birds of North America. It’s Macaulay Library contains a wealth of photos and audio recordings for approximately 10,000 species. It made the Los Angeles Times and UCLA even issued a press release.

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Lifer Ocean

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I’ve spent a fair bit of time on the ocean on right side of North America. Where the skilled spotter finds needles in haystacks and picks out rarities from more plentiful species. These birds nest in Baja California, and drift up into US waters occasionally in the late summer. Birding California pelagic pelagic birding'

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