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Peterson Field Guide to Mushrooms of North America, Second Edition: A Field Guide Review

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Ranging in color from off-white to dingy black, with pastel to gelatinous shades of yellow, orange, purple, and brown in-between, found in moist crevasses, decaying trees, rain-soaked pastures, mushrooms lack the beauty of butterflies and wildflowers cannot equal the action of bats, or flying fish, and certainly lack the spiritual zest of birds.

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Raptors of Mexico and Central America: A Book Review

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This is the first identification guide that I know of that covers Mexico (technically North America but rarely included in North American raptor guides) and Central America. Like Peterson’s Hawks of North America, 2nd edition (Houghton Mifflin, 2001), which Clark co-authored with Brain K.

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Birding Technology – The New Citizen Science

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Which is bad news for someone like me who still struggles with the fact that bats are mammals. Citizen science is a term used for the systematic collection and analysis of data and the dissemination of such data by researchers on a primarily voluntary basis. million bird observations in North America alone.

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Birds of Belize & Birds of Costa Rica: A Field Guide Review Doubleheader

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.” Willet is listed as “Western Willet” and “Eastern Willet,” two separate species, something we’ve expected from the North American Classification Committee for many years, but which has not yet passed committee muster. ” These are just some examples.

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First White-Tailed Tropicbird Sighted in Connecticut

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Bowen, a wildlife rehabilitator licensed with CT DEEP for small mammals and reptiles (specializing in bats www.bats101.info) These birds are not found in North America, but have a range in the Caribbean, Indian Ocean and the Hawaiian Islands. Today’s Guest Post is written by Linda E.