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Review Classic: The Warbler Guide

10,000 Birds

(Famously, the Blackburnian was the spark bird for notable birder Phoebe Snetsinger; it was also the spark bird for my friend Marylee,) Without warblers, migrant hotspots like the Ramble in New York City’s Central Park would be empty in May. Magnolia Warblers are found in the central and eastern United States.

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What the Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

The species are taxonomically divided into two families: Tytonidae, Barn-Owls, and Strigidae, Owls, encompassed in one order, Strigiformes. Ackerman skirts around a related problem, the trade in owls in markets in southeast Asia and Japan, an outgrowth of Harry Potter mania. This is a great summer read.

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Birds of the World: The Art of Elizabeth Gould

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This may be before the Fairy-Wrens developed the ability to detect Cuckoo young in the nest, an ability recently described by ornithologists, or this family may be one of the 60% who don’t detect Cuckoo chicks. .” Elizabeth Coxen was born in England on 18 July 1804 (a significant date since I also was born on July 18th!)

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My Top Ten Birds of 2016 (or, Let’s Remember the Good Things about 2016)

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I started the year in Florida, traveled to India with the ABA in February, combined family and birding in an August trip to California, and in-between saw very good birds in New York and New Jersey. Only a small one, my Rockjumper guide reassured me, an initiation to real Southeast Asia birding. (6) 6) Garganey.

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The Warbler Guide: A Book Review by a Warbler-challenged Birder

10,000 Birds

(Famously, the Blackburnian was the spark bird for notable birder Phoebe Snetsinger; it was also the spark bird for my friend Marylee,) Without warblers, migrant hotspots like the Ramble in New York City’s Central Park would be empty in May. Magnolia Warblers are found in the central and eastern United States.

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The Crossley ID Guide: Waterfowl–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

The Crossley ID Guide: Waterfowl covers every residential, migrating, vagrant, exotic, and introduced swan, goose, dabbling and diving duck in North America (Canada and the United States): 62 Species Accounts on four swan species and one vagrant subspecies; 15 goose species; 46 duck species; plus accounts for hybrid geese, ducks and exotics.

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