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Birding The City of Henderson Bird Viewing Preserve

10,000 Birds

All of these things can be found in Las Vegas, Nevada. Avocets, Black-necked Stilts , and Spotted Sandpipers breed at the Henderson Bird Viewing Preserve. He steered me right and there it was, my first life bird in Nevada! Trips Henderson Bird Viewing Preserve Las Vegas Nevada' One lifer down and one to go.

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How to Know the Birds: The Art and Adventure of Birding – A Book Review

10,000 Birds

The Checklist is more than a taxonomic listing of species and chapter number and title; it also contains useful notes on each bird family. Floyd’s writing style draws the reader in, including us in his experiences and observations, making the personal communal. He received a B.A. in Ecology from Penn State University.

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Best Bird of the Year 2013

10,000 Birds

Hornbills are spectacular under any circumstances, but when a pair lands in a bush beside you at eye-level and begin mutual preening , it makes for a spectacular experience. I was attending the 3rd Global Bird-watching Conference in Gujarat and suddenly surrounded not just be species that were completely new, but entire families of birds.

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