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National Audubon Society Birds of North America: A Guide Review

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The new series was masterminded by Chanticleer founder Paul Steiner, who was lauded on his death 19 years later for his “brilliant idea of creating bird guides with photographs” and organizing them visually. In the back of the book, we find a lengthy section on “Bird Families,” a glossary, an index.

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The Power of Pets Initiative

4 The Love Of Animals

New York City; Nashville, Tenn.; In the coming months, Mars Petcare will sponsor family-focused healthy living fairs for pets and people at the following locations: New York City – The Prospect Park YMCA, October 16. The WALTHAM® Centre for Pet Nutrition provides the science behind our leading petcare brands.

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

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I had heard of Roger Tory Peterson, but I didn’t know that he was a New York birder, born in upstate Jamestown in 1908, nor that he had birded the Bronx when he was a young man, a member of NYC Linnaean Society and the fabled Bronx Bird Club. Family groups are briefly introduced with descriptions of their shared characteristics.

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Bota Box: Nighthawk Black Red Wine Blend

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I’m lucky that these once-common North American nightjars regularly pass over my house in upstate New York twice a year, both during their northbound spring migration and even more so in the fall on their way south. Undoubtedly to some people the new cardboard container represents a vast improvement over tradition.

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Birds of the World: The Art of Elizabeth Gould

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This may be before the Fairy-Wrens developed the ability to detect Cuckoo young in the nest, an ability recently described by ornithologists, or this family may be one of the 60% who don’t detect Cuckoo chicks. It is co-branded with the Natural History Museum of London, whose collections are the source of the artwork.

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The Scoop on Poop, or, Why I Post Photos of Defecating Birds

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I first met Paul Guris, owner of See Life Paulagics , fittingly enough, on a pelagic trip out of Freeport, New York in February of 2006. I love South Park , Family Guy , and Robot Chicken , and if you know those shows then they should be more than enough explanation for that last sentence. And two new Nikkor 70-300mm lenses.

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Meet Suliformes, one of the newest orders of birds

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That larger clade is in turn sister to a clade containing the four remaining totipalmate bird families, which do still seem to be related, and which needed a new order name once pelicans were removed. But meanwhile, let’s look at the four avian families that comprise the brand new order Suliformes.

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