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A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

The book is organized into ten chapters, framed by a Prologue and Epilogue focused on Weidensaul’s banding experience in Denali National Park. His participant observations connect to his own research experiences, providing history and perspective. This is big, global-level stuff with amazing findings but worrisome data.

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Birding at the Tip of Florida: A Bit of Everything

10,000 Birds

Coupled with its geologic youth, this makes the southern tip of the state function as a bit of an island experiment. Humans have also participated in this process by introducing a long list of birds such as Egyptian Goose , Purple Swamphen , and Common Myna. There has also never been a land bridge to any islands in the Caribbean.

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The Kirtland’s Warbler: The Story of a Bird’s Fight Against Extinction and the People Who Saved It: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

A lovely looking and distinctive sounding bird (so they say, I sadly have not seen one…yet), the Kirtland’s Warbler can only be found during its breeding season in Jack Pine forests 5 to 20 years old in the northern Lower Peninsula of Michigan. So if you want to see a Kirtland’s Warbler, you go to Michigan in May or June.

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