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Black-backed Woodpeckers and Forest Fires in California and the West

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I had taken the short drive to the park to search for a family of American Dippers sighted near the visitor center by a fellow birder a few days before. References: 1 Birds of North America Online , 2 Center for Biological Diversity , 3 Bond, M. It was July of 2012. I arrived at Lassen Volcanic National Park around 7:00 a.m.

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How to Know the Birds: The Art and Adventure of Birding – A Book Review

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How to Know the Birds talks about 200 commonly found birds in North America (including one extinct bird, the Passenger Pigeon) in 200 brief essays, each exactly one page long. John Schmitt, who illustrated Raptors of Mexico and Central America amongst many other books and magazine articles. He received a B.A.

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