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Around the World For Penguins: A Penguin Fan’s Book Review

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Penguins are cartoons, emoticons, animated films, children’s books (though owls really take first place here), sports teams, a book publisher, and a Batman villain (a rare example of penguin negativity, though Burgess Meredith did bring an endearing attitude to his 1960’s TV portrayal). .” Press, 2011).

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The New Neotropical Companion: A Book Review by a Lover of the Neotropics

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The first edition, A Neotropical Companion: An Introduction to the Animals, Plants, and Ecosystems of the New World Tropics , was published in 1989. An enlarged version was published in 1997, with color photographs and more coverage of South America. The ‘little green book’ was now over 450 pages long!

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Colorful + Devious = Toucans of Costa Rica

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A bird of lowland and foothill rainforest, the Yellow-throated Toucan can be seen in most parts of the Caribbean slope and from the Carara area south to Panama. As with related species in South America, pairs also give a loud yelping duet from the top of canopy emergents in the morning and late afternoon.

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Untamed Americas

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“ Untamed Americas ” is a high-definition miniseries event narrated by Academy Award-nominated actor Josh Brolin. In it we get to see some of the amazing places in the wild areas of North America, Central America and South America. Untamed Americas: Mountains. Untamed Americas: Coasts.

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Magical Canastra: A Piece of Brazil’s Forgotten Grasslands

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It also supports the greatest variety of large mammals in all of South America, including such iconic species as Maned Wolf and Giant Anteater. There are approximately 10,000 plant species in the Cerrado. The wooded savanna habitat was home to a variety of widespread generalists as well as range-restricted specialists.

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Birder, Defined

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Duck : “any of various swimming birds (family Anatidae, the duck family) in which the neck and legs are short, the feet typically webbed, the bill often broad and flat, and the sexes usually different from each other in plumage.”. Some entries include etymology (word history) information.

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The complete guide to Dodo relatives, living and dead

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Not, as Linneaus thought, an ostrich, nor even, as later scientists concluded, a distant cousin of pigeons deserving of family rank, it was an honest-to-goodness pigeon, deeply embedded within the family Columbidae. The Dodo ( Raphus cucullatus ) — that towering icon of modern anthropogenic extinctions — was a pigeon.