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What the Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Ackerman’s new book is about owls and owl research–the knowledge recently and currently being discovered through DNA analysis, new-tech tracking and monitoring, and old-fashioned fieldwork under the auspices of organizations like the Global Owl Project and the Owl Research Institute.

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Second Atlas of Breeding Birds in Pennsylvania: A Review by an Atlas Novice

10,000 Birds

A breeding bird atlas is a special kind of book. For ornithologists, it is the documentation of a multi-year project designed to record the distribution and abundance of birds in a specific area (in North America, usually a state or a province), utilizing a mapping method involving blocks and grids.

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Around the World For Penguins: A Penguin Fan’s Book Review

10,000 Birds

The goal of Around the World For Penguins is simple: Describe the 18 species of penguin and their breeding grounds “from the perspective of a traveller.” But, unlike most books focused on a bird family, this one is organized geographically. The full-length species accounts are not repeated.

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Antpittas and Gnateaters: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

This range of illustration continues throughout the 24 plates, reflecting, I assume, what has been documented and not documented for each species and the degree of difference between sexes and amongst subspecies. They are, of course, of antpittas building or incubating eggs on a nest. Organization.

Research 149
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Britain’s Dragonflies & Britain’s Butterflies: A Review of Two Field Guides

10,000 Birds

The book is produced by WILDGuides, a nonprofit publishing organization that joined forces with Princeton University Press last year to create the Princeton WILDGuides imprint. The where and how of egg laying and larva emergence is briefly treated, with page references to larval drawings at the back of the book.

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The Australian Bird Guide: A Review

10,000 Birds

Its organization and content is unorthodox in several ways, which I think is exciting; new approaches to field guides give birders opportunities to rethink how we identify birds and a good excuse to buy yet another field guide. ” The result is an organization that is sort of but not always arranged taxonomically.

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Far From Land: The Mysterious Lives of Seabirds–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Think about it–how do you document the behavior of birds that spend years flying (or swimming) and feeding and, apparently, sleeping above or within the deep sea? We didn’t know much about migration routes, foraging away from the breeding colony, and feeding during migration, in the water and in the air.

Albatross 114