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Our Favorite Bird Books (and one pair of Binoculars) of 2022

10,000 Birds

What extraordinary birds penguins are: physically, they remind us of ourselves, so we think we understand their behaviors, but, as the authors say, “their private life is as complex and mysterious as that of any wild animal.” The guide covers 265 of Maine’s 461 bird species: common nesting species, common migrants, and wintering birds.

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Tembe Elephant Park, South Africa

10,000 Birds

But it wasn’t founded to serve as a refuge for human refugees, but animal ones, specifically elephants. It is a good place for South African birders, as several species are found here and nowhere else in South Africa, and it holds a small number of endemics that it shares with the Mozambique lowlands.