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National Audubon Society Birds of North America: A Guide Review

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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. And now we have the third iteration in Audubon’s guide book history: National Audubon Society Birds of North America. I didn’t.).

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A Fierce Cartoon Bird: Steller’s Sea Eagle on Hokkaido

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In what might nowadays be regarded as a slightly weird scientific practice, after meeting naturalist Daniel Gottlieb Messerschmidt, he married Messerschmidt’s widow after his death and got notes from Messerschmidt’s Siberia travels from her that had not been handed over to the Imperial Academy of Sciences.

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Wood Warbler Names Done Right

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North American warblers, on the other hand, often bear names of, at best, marginal utility. For example, the legendary ornithologist Alexander Wilson happened upon in his broad travels a warbler previously undescribed by science. Naming a bird species for the part of the world in which it breeds or resides makes sense.

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