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Charles Harper’s Birds & Words: A Review of a Classic Reborn

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As an independent illustrator, he regularly contributed art to Ford Times , a “lifestyle” magazine published by the Ford Motor Company. So, the Eastern Kingbird ”is one of the Tyrant Flycatchers, Tyrannidae –America’s largest bird family–365 different species.”

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

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l-r) Brushland Tinamou ( Nothoprocta cinerascens ), Southern Cassowary ( Casuarius casuarius ), Greater Sage-Grouse ( Centrocercus urophasianus ), Mandarin Duck ( Aix galericulata ). Have you noticed ducks and quail replacing loons and grebes at the beginning of newer bird field guides and checklists? This is why.

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Birding Shanghai in June 2022

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This one seems to wonder about whether eating flies is the right lifestyle choice though. The one for bird photographers (a Spot-billed Duck ) is shown below. One of my great misguided theoretical money-making schemes has always been to publish a series of demotivational posters targeting specific groups of people.

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