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Urban Ornithology: 150 Years of Birds in New York City–A Book Review

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Everyone is looking back on their best birds of 2019, so I thought it would be a good idea to look at a book that looks back a little further: Urban Ornithology: 150 Years of Birds in New York City , by P. Because, as this book demonstrates so well, it is sometimes important to look back in order to move forward. “Wait!”

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Endemic Birds of Cuba: A Book Review

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For endangered species, red and gray tabs at the top of the page indicate level of threatened status from the IUCN and the Libro Rogo de los Vertebrados Cubanos (Red Data Book for Cuban Vertebrates). The book includes lots of space for Notes. This means that it has some interesting features, which may or may not work in practice.

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Guide to the Birds of China

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The book has a reasonable size and can be carried around in the field. The book has bird names in English, Latin, Chinese, and Pinyin – very useful for somebody like me to communicate with local birders. Maybe the level of anticipation was too high – in any case, the new guide turns out to be rather a disappointment.

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15 Australian Birds (Episode 2)

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The book hastens to assure us that “we may safely assume that it referred only to bright plumage” While larger, the White-eared Honeyeater seems to follow a somewhat similar color scheme. It is probably a rumor that writing a post about Australia and not mentioning kangaroos is illegal, but why take the risk?

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The Falcon Thief: A Book Review

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2019), and now this book. The progression could be said to echo that of an earlier book about an obsessive nature criminal, The Orchard Thief by Susan Orlean, which started out as an article in The New Yorker.). The book is structured cinematically. wrote a lengthy article in Outside magazine (Jan. Author Joshua Hammer.

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Ten Ways To Be A Better (Online) Birder

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It’s illegal, it disturbs birds, and if you do admit to doing this, you are only going to encourage others to make the same mistake. I urge less experienced birders to use a bird book before taking their questions to the masses. No need to get defensive. Don’t even bring up using tapes on endangered species.

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Shutting Your Trap

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What you did was illegal,” he said. I have a book about injured wildlife coming out soon, and I couldn’t buy better publicity.”. The trap had been set in the woods right next to my house. I’d released birds there. I knew the wildlife. Where is the trap now?” asked the officer. “In In my garage,” I said. Then it’s legal.