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Florida, Of Thee I Sing

10,000 Birds

My birder’s brain struggled mightily to reconcile the odd shapes in the sky with any known species, but their call brought it all back. I don’t get a lot of life birds in North America any more, but this confiding little gent offered himself up to the list: a Florida Scrub-Jay. From the tail band, it looks like an immature.

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

10,000 Birds

Each bird illustration consists of two parts–the image itself on the right-hand page full-page size with a wide white border, and the text on the left-hand page, a brief description of the bird in Harper’s distinctive voice. Each section, with one exception, offers images and text of ten birds; Vanishing Birds contains eleven.