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National Audubon Society Birds of North America: A Guide Review

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And now we have the third iteration in Audubon’s guide book history: National Audubon Society Birds of North America. The National Audubon Society Birds of North America covers all species seen in mainland United States, Canada and Baja California. I didn’t.). This is a fairly large book: 907 pages; 7.38

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A review of the birdcentric novel “Accidentals” (the title of which is in the plural for a reason)

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She lives part-time in Uruguay and is co-director of the Fiction Meets Science program at the University of Bremen, Germany, which seeks to bridge the “two cultures” of science and literature. Her narrator is Gabriel, 23, raised in Northern California by an American father and a Uruguayan mother.

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Do The Splits

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The last thing you want to do is ignore certain subspecies just because you’ve seen another one; in other words, skip looking for a Northern Fulmar off Maine just because you’ve seen them off California. An excellent synopsis of the situation is right here at 10,000 Birds. 2 of which make their home in the United States.

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Climate Change and Birds

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But still, there is variation in variation and how rapid climate change occurs can matter, as demonstrated in a paper just published in Science: The Influence of Late Quaternary Climate-Change Velocity on Species Endemism. Well, that’s probably a little bit true, but only a very little bit.

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The Feathery Tribe: A Book Review

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That’s a photo of Ridgway’s office on the right, fifth floor of the South Tower. He wrote about birds in North America, Central America, and parts of South America, including the Galapagos. Ridgway spent the rest of his career in the Castle, the Smithsonian building that then housed the National Museum’s bird collection.

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

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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. Large and colorful, they include Mexico, Central America and sometimes South America, showing the full migration route.

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What It’s Like to Be a Bird: A Review of the New Sibley Book

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This is a delightful book, large (8-1/2 by 11 inches), filled with Sibley’s distinctive artwork and an organized potpourri of research-based stories about the science behind bird’s lives. Each spread consists of a full-page painting of a bird or group of birds on the left and a combination of text and illustrations on the right.

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