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It’s time for a new understanding of tanagers

10,000 Birds

” But the tanager brand is changing. A wonderful Audubon magazine article on birds’ bills (“ Pecking Order “) notes that individual Great Tits in England experience a change in bill shape between summer and winter as their primary food sources shift. These are neither sparrows, nor finches, but tanagers.

2003 217
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National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America, 7th Edition: A Field Guide Review

10,000 Birds

” An informative interview with the authors in Birdwatching Magazine expands on this with the explanation that some rarities are included in the main Species Accounts for comparison purposes or because they ran out of space in the back section. Looks exactly the same at first until you notice brand-new images of the kite in flight.

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

10,000 Birds

These photographic field guides are lovely to look at and easy to use, providing a variety of tools for species identification. 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).

Ireland 177