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Feeding Wild Birds in America: Culture, Commerce & Conservation: A Book Review by a Curious Bird Feeder

10,000 Birds

Barker, and Carroll Henderson is a well-researched, copiously illustrated, engaging study of bird feeding practices, personalities, inventions marketing, and companies that developed in the United States from the late 19th century to the present day, with a little bit of Canada, Europe, and South America thrown in. Baicich, Margaret A.

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

10,000 Birds

There are page references to and from the Species Accounts maps, which makes research transparently easy. There is a delightful video of Alderfer drawing a Harlequin Duck while his voiceover describes his process for field guide illustrations available online from National Geographic. The wonder of research?