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It’s time for a new understanding of tanagers

10,000 Birds

” But the tanager brand is changing. He goes on to describe how early classifications of the nine-primaried oscines relied on bill shape to determine family boundaries. A new perspective on tanagers Much of the core of the tanager family remains intact.

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Mastering Bird Photography: A Book Review by an Amateur Bird Photographer

10,000 Birds

I first became familiar with the photographs and photo essays of Marie Read through their publication in Living Bird , the Cornell Lab of Ornithology magazine (British-born, Marie lives in the Finger Lakes area). Her photos have appeared in numerous magazines, educational exhibits, calendars, and she has won prestigious photography awards.

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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

These photographic field guides are lovely to look at and easy to use, providing a variety of tools for species identification. There are many more British species that resemble ours, but belong to different subfamilies or even families. The authors pay far less attention to photographing and collecting adult dragonfly specimens.

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