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

10,000 Birds

Howell and colleagues propose a standard sequence of species for field guides based on eight groupings–swimming waterbirds that swim, flying waterbirds, walking waterbirds, upland gamebirds, raptors, miscellaneous larger landbirds, aerial landbirds, and songbirds. I love a field guide that makes usability a priority. Species Accounts.

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Fun Time Dog Shop (and giveaway)

4 The Love Of Animals

Fun Time Dog Shop is a brand new online shop for modern pets (and people)! But the truly special part is all profits from the shop are donated to non-profit dog rescue groups! Palm Puppies make a delightful collectible or a wonderful gift! As soon as I found out about the shop I went right over and found so many cute items.

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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. Color-coded page headings denote bird groups, matched by color-coded bird silhouette icons located midway down the edge of the page.

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

10,000 Birds

There were three profound questions my birding group discussed while we birded Trinidad and Tobago, back in December 2012: (1) How many Bananaquits could fit on a banana? (2) Do not buy these books, unless you are collecting old bird books. 2) Which hummingbird was more beautiful—Tufted Coquette or Ruby-topaz Hummingbird? (3)

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Mrs Pankhurst’s Purple Feather–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Preferably, they should be wearing colors of purple, white, and gold, the branded hues of their movement. No other characters or group of characters are described so persistently with the use of their religious, ethnic, or racial names. Botibol” (p. There is no effort at context.

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Birds of Malaysia – Covering Peninsular Malaysia, Malaysian Borneo and Singapore

10,000 Birds

Most of such bird tours are branded “Borneo”, without ever mentioning the name of the country in the name of the tour. Well-marked subspecies groups receive full accounts, and the distributions of subspecies breeding in the region are clearly mapped.

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

10,000 Birds

The authors pay far less attention to photographing and collecting adult dragonfly specimens. He is a trustee of the British Dragonfly Society and convenes its Dragonfly Conservation Group. It is Herperia comma, the skipper we call Common Branded Skipper, a smaller orange-brownish skipper with several white spots on its hindwings.

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