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Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Southeastern North America and of Northeastern North America: A Review of Two Field Guides

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You can blame the nice people at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, who took it upon themselves to send me a review copy of the Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Southeastern North America by Seabrooke Leckie and David Beadle. Moth plates from Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Southeastern North America. Moths are more than bird food.

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“Purple Martins” by Carl Sandburg

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“Purple Martins&# first appeared in print in Carl Sandburg’s 1920 collection of poems, Smoke and Steel , published six years after he rose to prominence following the publication of some of his poems in the famed Poetry magazine. Go on tumbling half over at the horse heads of the sun. Twirl on, you and your satin blue.

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“Dog Days and Poisons” – Collective Arts Brewing: Mash Up the Jam

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In that deviant spirit, this week’s beer is Mash Up the Jam, a new dry-hopped sour beer by Collective Arts Brewing of Hamilton, Ontario. I suspect this will be the first and last time we’ll see a beer featuring this species, an introduced Old-World songbird best known in North America from its St. Louis, Missouri population.

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Where I Went Birding that Third Weekend of September 2020

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The Salvia mexicana is sold in North America with the varietal name “Limelight” But this one was wild, native, and beautiful. While not my quite my first sighting of an Olive-sided Flycatcher for 2020, this difficult species is always a welcome find as it makes it way through Mexico to reach Central and South America.

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Birding Inirida, Colombia, or river dolphins and hoatzins, part 2

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Located within a Puinave indigenous reserve, these remnants of ancient parent-rock are some of the oldest geological formations in all of South America. Yet, we had a good two hours or almost 50 kilometres by 75 horse-powered speedboat to reach Inirida at sunset. Black-collared Swallow by Tyler Ficker.

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