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National Audubon Society Birds of North America: A Guide Review

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Interestingly, Chestnut-collared Longspur does appear under its brand-new official name, Thick-billed Longspur, though the description underneath uses the old name. Who is responsible for the intellectual content of the Audubon guide? Plate 28 from Audubon Bird Guide, Eastern Land Birds, by Richard H.

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The Birds of Trinidad and Tobago: Two Guides, One Book Review

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Even during the breeding season the birds appear to be quite unwary of humans. Often, as I have been investigating the contents of a nest by making a small hole in the side, the parent birds have come right to the nest, where they immediately begin to repair the damage even before my departure!”.

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Britain’s Dragonflies & Britain’s Butterflies: A Review of Two Field Guides

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It covers 63 odonate species: 44 breeding species (19 damselfly, 25 dragonfly), and, in a second part of the Species Accounts, 19 vagrant, potential vagrant and former breeding species (5 damselfly, 14 dragonfly). Sections on Behaviour, Breeding Habitat, and Population and Conservation offer brief but specific information.

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