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Choosing a food that is right for you and your dog

4 The Love Of Animals

The convenience of ‘ready-made’ dog meals has been the key to its success, and since then many brands and varieties have been created, all coupled with great marketing strategies utilizing colorful labels and pictures. They offer a variety of carefully balanced, nutritional foods catering for all different requirements.

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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. I like my field guides to have clearly stated taxonomic guidelines in the Introduction, even if it includes a page of exceptions, and a cut-off date.

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

10,000 Birds

I am guessing that this system (which is also used in Sibley ) is based on the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) Guidelines for Alphabetical Arrangement of Letters and Sorting of Numerals and Other Symbols (1999), but it seems counter-intuitive to me. Authors: Jon L.