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Monterrey Meetings

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For my next visit in the following summer, we decided to organize a company birding trip to La Estanzuela – another treasure spot in the Cumbres. We finally reached Mesa de Oso , the table (mountain) of the bear. These parrots breed inside cavities in cliffs and they are very particular about the cliff. It was amazing.

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Review: Saving the Spoon-billed Sandpiper

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With populations plunging dramatically over the last decade, researchers from the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust, Birds Russia, and a number of other conservation organizations made the always-controversial call to pluck eggs from the imperiled wild population and establish a captive breeding program as a final hedge against extinction.

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The Ross Sea – the Last Intact Marine Ecosystem on Earth – and I

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There are 11 species of birds that breed in the Ross Sea region. The most numerous penguins are Emperor and Adélie Penguins , with 26 and 38 percent of the world’s population breeding in the Ross Sea, respectively. On the Balleny Islands Antarctic Fulmar , Antarctic Prion and Cape Petrel also breed. And the Mammals.

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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. Species Accounts are organized taxonomically. Audubon guides to birds have been around since 1946. SPECIES ACCOUNTS. These are all informative and current.

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Sibley Birds East & Sibley Birds West: A Review

10,000 Birds

Am I willing to give up the field guide which bears the mud and dirt of so many falls on so many birding trips? They offer more birds, updated text and taxonomic organization, and shiny, pretty covers featuring signature bird close-ups and abbreviated titles in large block letters.

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Birds of Paradise and Bowerbirds: An Identification Guide?A Book Review

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Greeney, also part of the Helm Identification series, it focuses on two avian families, combining the information necessary for identification with the latest research on taxonomy and behavior, particularly breeding behavior, and the latest conservation news and status. Species Accounts are organized by family and genus. Introduction.

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De arte venandi cum avibus: San Martino Siir (2015) – Aglianico del Vulture DOC

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In De arte venandi cum avibus , he corrected and supplemented this comprehensive survey of the existing literature with his own empirical observations and logical inductions – and methodically organized these natural histories in a work that is startlingly ahead of its time. Could this be the first “accipiter sp.”

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