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Field Guide to North American Flycatchers: Kingbirds and Myiarchus: A Field Guide Review

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It’s a masterful example of how scientific illustration can inform and be enjoyable to look at, and I’d love to have these plates in mini card form to carry around with me when I visit California. The spectrograms are much easier to read in this volume, larger and darker. ” A fantastic idea!

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Arctic Loon at Bonelli Park

10,000 Birds

When you think of southern California in June there are a variety of things that could come to mind. Yet, somehow, on 31 May one was discovered on Puddingstone Reservoir, the large man-made lake that is the center of Bonelli Park, a nearly 2,000 acre expanse in San Dimas, just east of Los Angeles.

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Listening to Falcons: The Peregrines of Tom Cade

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such as California Condors and Passenger Pigeons. His parents moved where opportunity beckoned, taking him from San Angelo, Texas, to Columbus, New Mexico, then to Dallas, and finally on to California. Author Sherrida Woodley thinks deeply about dearly departed birds. She’s already written about Rachel Carson: Secret Birder.

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Field Guide to North American Flycatchers: Empidonax and Pewees–A Field Guide Review

10,000 Birds

I was puzzled why the authors decided to include Buff-breasted Flycatcher, Pine Flycatcher, and Tufted Flycatcher, species that have extremely limited range in North America. The maps are fairly complex, showing breeding range, winter range, year-round range, migration routes, times, and directions.

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A New Year Begins! But First–A Celebration of My 2018 Top Ten Birds

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Mountain Plover, California. 2018 was a good year for Mountain Plover in California, with a congregation (that is what you call a flock of plovers, says the Internets) seen regularly in Antelope Valley from early November on. Baird’s Sparrow, North Dakota.

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