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Why Red-ruffed Fruitcrow?

10,000 Birds

Tropical birding demands tropical birds, those families and genera unique to their latitudes rather than shared via migration across various climate zones. But these tropical ecosystems also harbor families that remind us by their very presence just how close we’ve come to the Equator and how far we are from the poles.

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Untamed Americas

4 The Love Of Animals

In it we get to see some of the amazing places in the wild areas of North America, Central America and South America. Untamed Americas: Mountains. In a rarely filmed event, see newly awakened black bears go on the hunt for newborn elk calves. Untamed Americas: Coasts.

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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. If you remember that the first edition of Sibley was published with “National Audubon Society” on the cover, raise your hand. I didn’t.).

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The complete guide to Dodo relatives, living and dead

10,000 Birds

Not, as Linneaus thought, an ostrich, nor even, as later scientists concluded, a distant cousin of pigeons deserving of family rank, it was an honest-to-goodness pigeon, deeply embedded within the family Columbidae. The bird’s skeleton bears similarities to New Guinea’s much smaller (!)