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Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America, Second Edition: A Field Guide Review

10,000 Birds

And, the One-page Index, a quick reference to locating major bird families, is placed in two locations–the front and the back of the book. Major subspecies are presented–“Myrtle” and “Audubon’s” forms of Yellow-rumped Warbler, the five forms of Dark-eyed Junco, etc.–but

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National Audubon Society Birds of North America: A Guide Review

10,000 Birds

Interestingly, Chestnut-collared Longspur does appear under its brand-new official name, Thick-billed Longspur, though the description underneath uses the old name. Using the icons to locate specific bird families takes a little getting used to, but if you do it often it works well as a finding tool. ” These are all great.

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Wood Warbler Names Done Right

10,000 Birds

That fallacious family name seems to have encouraged all manner of knaves, dunderheads, and miscreants when time came to label species. Appropriate appellations should respect the birds, not 19th century naturalists and their friends and family. Naming a bird species for the part of the world in which it breeds or resides makes sense.

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Corporate Branding of Birds for Conservation: A Modest Proposal

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And the faces around this table – faces you might recognize, and names, if I hadn’t signed an NDA that I’m pretty sure allows me to be shot into space if I tell you who was present – were doing a pretty good job of acting like they wanted to hear them. No brand recognition at all.” “Exactly!

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National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America, 7th Edition: A Field Guide Review

10,000 Birds

Most of the species are described in the Species Accounts, arranged taxonomically into 86 family chapters. Each family chapter begins with a brief, bold-printed description of the common traits of the species in the family and an enumeration of the number of species worldwide and the number of species in North America.

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

10,000 Birds

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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Oban Distillery: 14-Year-Old Single Malt Scotch Whisky

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To the general public, members of the family Laridae are mere “seagulls”, crafty and determined summertime bullies dead set on snatching French fries and ice cream out of the hands of unsuspecting beachgoers – and, perhaps thanking them messily afterwards by bombing them from above. Be sure to bundle up.

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