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The Wonderfulness of Local Field Guides: Reviews of ABA Field Guide to Birds of Maine & Birding Guide to the Greater Pasadena Area

10,000 Birds

Nick Lund pretty much says it all when he writes, “Maine left Massachusetts in 1820 to become its own state and took the best of New England with it” (p. we learn) that are home to coveted boreal species, breeding wood-warblers, and two species of Grouse. American Birding Association Field Guide to Birds of Maine.

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Hermit Thrush Brewery: Po Tweet

10,000 Birds

Spring migration flies by – literally – rather quickly in the northeast but the closeness of the Adirondacks means that although all those boreal-breeding warblers, kinglets, thrushes, and sparrows disappear from my local patch by late May, many of them haven’t gone very far. And what do the birds say?

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