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National Audubon Society Birds of North America: A Guide Review

10,000 Birds

The first guide bearing the National Audubon Society imprint was Audubon Bird Guide; Eastern Land Birds , written by Richard Hooper Pough, and illustrated by Don Eckelberry. Interestingly, Chestnut-collared Longspur does appear under its brand-new official name, Thick-billed Longspur, though the description underneath uses the old name.

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The Jewel Hunter: A Book Review About One Birder’s Quest for Pittas and Beer

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Gooddie gets the book off to a quick start by describing his love affair with pittas (“the ultimate forest prize”), and detailing his decision to give up a good career as sales director of an audio manufacturing company (“my life was out of whack”). And sun bears. The endangered Gurney’s Pitta is losing habitat due to deforestation.

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Redbreast Single Pot Still Irish Whiskey (12-Year)

10,000 Birds

Even through they subsist on insects during much of the year, European Robins are year-round residents of Britain, and during the colder, gray months of year, their colorful bearing and often audacious presence around humans was not lost on early observers. The European Robin as depicted by Dutch artist Johannes Gerardus Keulemans.

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