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This Week in Bird News: Hawaiian Edition

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In the popular imagination, Hawaii is a tropical paradise. (No, And if you’re lucky enough to be on the island of Hawaii next weekend (Sept. The festival includes a chance to check out the brand-new Hawaii Island Coast-to-Coast Birding Trail , which stretches from Kona to Hilo, as well as to hop on board a pelagic cruise.

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

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Plus, in a major expansion, the birds of Hawaii, the most recent geographical addition to the American Birding Association Checklist. Adding the 76 new species in the Hawaii section, this makes coverage of approximately 884 species. The first edition of this title had larger versions of the maps in a section in the back. Conclusion.

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Bird Conservation News: The Good, The Bad (and Ugly), and More Good

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Take Hawaii, for example. And if that’s not enough good news for you, this just in: a brand-new bird species (the Cambodian Tailorbird , one of only two endemics in the country) has been discovered living right in Cambodia’s capitol city of Phnom Penh ! (Photo by David Guttenfelder, courtesy of National Geographic ).

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National Audubon Society Birds of North America: A Guide Review

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The rest of Mexico is not included, nor is Hawaii (which isn’t in North America, after all, but has been accepted as part of the American Birding Association area). Interestingly, Chestnut-collared Longspur does appear under its brand-new official name, Thick-billed Longspur, though the description underneath uses the old name.

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A Birder Reads a Scientific Paper

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To a layperson, this means: (1) relatively accessible introduction to the topic that includes useful citations to the literature; (2) soul-deadening hyper-detailed description of the way the research was conducted, often down the the brand of reagents; (3) exhaustive accounting of the resulting data; (4) relatively accessible discussion of the results, (..)