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Learning the Birds: A Book Review

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Although Henslow’s had been reliably found in nearby Sharon Springs for many years, the last documented sighting was in 2008, and the sighting startled longtime birders, waking them up to the fact that breeding sites in the state were rapidly being lost. Not an enticing subject, I think. How is birding like rock climbing?

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American Birding Association Field Guide to Birds of Ontario: A Field Guide Review

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It is home to four diverse forest ecosystems (deciduous, mixed, boreal, and lowlands), experiences seasonal weather systems ranging from cold dry Arctic winters to humid, thunder-storm filled summers, and, according to the latest official checklist, hosts four professional sports teams with bird names.* state and Canadian provinces.

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Birds of Belize & Birds of Costa Rica: A Field Guide Review Doubleheader

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Two books, two authors, two countries bursting with neotropical avian diversity. Since the books share authors and a creation process, I thought I would review them together. Yet they also bring up questions, which I’m going to talk about right now before diving into the specifics of the guides themselves.

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Sasol Birds of Southern Africa, 5th edition

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The book ends with three indexes, of scientific, English and Afrikaans names. This region is so far from the northern breeding grounds that there are no migratory corridors to show. uncommon), as well as when it breeds in the region. You can zoom right into the photos, illustrations and maps, to enlarge the details.

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Britain’s Birds: An Identification Guide to the Birds of Britain and Ireland–A Book Review

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This is a very good thing; it means they publish a lot of books about birds (probably more at this point than U.S. This is a hefty book, 560 pages long and dimensions of 6.3 The book’s organization reflects the authors’ goal of making this a guide accessible to birders of all levels and skill.

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Birding a monastery: Zhaga, Western Sichuan

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As in this quote by Mr. Andrew Breitbart: “Liberals in blue states just think that they are on the right side of history, and anybody that disagrees with them has to be a troglodyte or a neanderthal.” My extensive birding experience allows me to be very confident that the bird below is a Rosefinch. It is indeed rufous-ish.

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What to Do at High Island When the Winds are South

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It stops those thousands of migrating birds flying across the Gulf of Mexico and directs them right onto the trees, fields, sanctuaries, beaches along the Bolivar Peninsula, where they hopefully find food and fresh water. High Island in April requires Weather, so I was told. Clapper Rail. Back to the Flats.

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