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The Collins Bird Guide, 3rd edition

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The 1st edition from 1999 was a complete revolution in just about everything, but predominantly the quality and realism of illustrations, showing what a field guide could be and seriously raising the threshold for other publishers. That made everyone happy (with the possible exception of other publishers).

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Birding Shanghai in June 2022

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As with Chinese male humans, having your own building is still vital to raising young. However, they sometimes claim to be the national bird of Germany due to their black-red-yellow color combination – this is not true. So, the birds start collecting mud and small sticks. Nest building: a good activity for a rainy day.

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The Black Album: Black Birders, Blackpoll Warblers, Black-tailed Godwits, Black Flamingos, and more

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I just flew nonstop from Canada to South America and boy, are my arms tired.” Seattle doesn’t root just for the Seahawks … study reports that Emerald City residents (and those of Berlin, Germany) find common birds like finches and corvids worth opening their wallets for. Props on the sweet Barred Owl call, too. “I No, you didn’t.

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Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History from Cave Art to Conservation–A Book Review

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He continues with images found in illuminated manuscripts such as Catherine of Cleves’s Book of Hours and Frederick II of Germany’s On the Art of Hunting With Birds. There are two subjects which I think could have been explored more thoroughly–women in ornithological history and colonialism.

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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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Black Woodpecker: Officially a Nemesis

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And then, in that perfect, peaceful moment, I will raise my hand, making sure the bird can see it clearly, and I will extend my middle finger high. But Black Woodpecker ? I can picture its gorgeous red-topped head on a black body and the strong bill. Because I hate Black Woodpeckers if they do, in fact, exist.

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Birding Shanghai in February 2023

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It is mostly a question of economics – raising just one is troublesome enough given the resources required to feed and educate the chick. This research was actually done only about 10 km away from a place I once lived for a couple of years, in Radolfszell, Germany. If you want to signal to your environment that you a.

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