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National Audubon Society Birds of North America: A Guide Review

10,000 Birds

In some cases, for example Jabiru, the information is tucked away at the end and can’t even be discerned from the range map. Yes, it’s nice to have information on 817 birds, and it’s wonderful to have full descriptions and photographs of birds commonly seen in Central and South America. SPECIES ACCOUNTS.

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Tricolored Blackbird in Trouble in California

10,000 Birds

This is an excerpt from that report: “Because much native nesting habitat has been converted to agriculture and stored grains provide an essentially limitless food resource, tricolors have since the 1980s nested in large numbers in association with dairies. “We can’t afford to lose another one of these large colonies.”

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Cliff Swallows and Pest Management

10,000 Birds

In addition to their homing tendency, breeding swallows are attracted to old nests. It is illegal for any person to take, possess, transport, sell, or purchase them or their parts, such as feathers, nests, or eggs, without a permit. Completed nests during this breeding season cannot be touched without a permit from the U.S.

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Peterson Reference Guide to Sparrows of North America: A Review by a Sparrow Fan

10,000 Birds

Peterson Reference Guide to Sparrows of North America covers 61 species of the New World sparrow family Passerellidae that breed in Canada, the United States, and northern Mexico. There are no distribution maps, which makes me wonder how much information we miss when we rely only on maps. What is in the Species Accounts? Photographs.

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

10,000 Birds

Scientists were largely limited to studies birds in breeding colonies, at least those we knew about and that were accessible (and, if you think that’s a complete list, you haven’t read the news that came out this week about a new colony of Adélie penguins found in the Danger Islands, Antarctica). Technology to the rescue!

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Rare Birds: The Extraordinary Tale of the Bermuda Petrel and the Man Who Brought It Back from Extinction–A Review

10,000 Birds

The story of the cahow, a “Lazurus species” that was thought to be extinct for over 300 years and then discovered to be breeding on a tiny remote island in Bermuda, is part of modern birding legend. In 1951, there were 18 breeding pairs of cahows discovered on three tiny islands.

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Phillipps’ Field Guide to the Birds of Borneo: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

This is evident in the introductory material, which includes sections on The Origin and Evolution of Borneo’s Birds, Conservation in Action, Vegetation and Bird Life in Borneo, Climate, Rainfall and Bird Breeding Seasons, and Bird Migration. The plates show differing plumages as required by the individual families and species.

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