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Offshore Sea Life: East Coast, Birds of Pennsylvania, & Texas Birds: Three Books, Three Reviews

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All of these titles deal with birding in specific North American geographic areas: The Atlantic coast, Pennsylvania, and Texas. The photos show the forms of the bird seen on the east coast and are annotated with notes on plumage and other distinguishing field marks. It’s time for some short book reviews. Well, short for me.

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The Birds That Audubon Missed: A Book Review

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The Birds That Audubon Missed: Discovery and Desire in the American Wilderness is about birds and taxonomy, history and art, the birding god we have revered and torn down, the ornithological originals we’ve ignored or simply don’t know.

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Springtime Tree Cutting and Wildlife

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The birds were living like city apartment dwellers … the upstairs neighbors were the woodpeckers, downstairs were the screech owls. Even if you remove the branches and cut the tree to a safe height, it will still provide homes to birds, mammals, insects, and fungi. Banner photo by Texas Parks and Wildlife.

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The Whistling Ducks of Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge

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February had brought zipping breezes and cloudy skies to this part of coastal Texas, but the birds didn’t seem to mind. Encompassing over 30,000 acres, the refuge protects birds of course, but also butterflies, mammals, and more. While the whistling ducks may have been the highlight, there were birds everywhere.

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Big Year Birding Update

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The birders birding on a budget and doing a lower-48 big year, Renee Rubin and Michael Delesantro , are doing nicely at 614 species for the year, amazing considering how little money they have spent. Mary Beth Stowe is hoping to tick 350 species along the lower Texas Coast this year and has netter 307 so far.

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Gulf Coast Ribbon Snake

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If you enjoyed this post and would like to see more great images of birds (there are snakes there too (and mammals and butterflies and dragonflies and plants… )), go to our 10,000 Clicks section where you will find our big (and growing) gallery page here at 10,000 Birds. Reptiles Gulf Coast Ribbon Snake Texas'

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Birding and Safari-ing South Africa with the ABA

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And Flamingos and Hornbills and a Secretarybird and birds with names like Hamerkop and Thick-knee and Eremomela (which I know is a scientific term, but which, when pronounced correctly, reminds me of a Yiddish term of endearment my grandmother used). And so, I went on the American Birding Association Safari to South Africa.