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Feather Trails: A Journey of Discovery Among Endangered Birds–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Her experiences are framed within the larger scientific histories how once common species become endangered, and of how people and organizations have strategized and explored controversial paths to bring their numbers up and nurture them till they fill our skies. This is the chapter where Osborn talks about “second chances.”

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

10,000 Birds

John Schmitt, who illustrated Raptors of Mexico and Central America amongst many other books and magazine articles. I understand that this is a complicated undertaking, but a new birder reading this book would have no idea that Bushtits (#92: “Breeding System: ‘It’s Complicated'”) are only found in Western states.

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Better Birding: A Book Review (& a New Year’s goal)

10,000 Birds

And so, I turn to Better Birding: Tips, Tools & Concepts for the Field , the new book by George L. Light blue boxes give brief facts on breeding age, strategy and lifespan. Mentorship is an essential part of the birding experience, and it needs to be encouraged. Armistead and Brian L. Just go to the boldfaced page number.

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It’s time for a new understanding of tanagers

10,000 Birds

A wonderful Audubon magazine article on birds’ bills (“ Pecking Order “) notes that individual Great Tits in England experience a change in bill shape between summer and winter as their primary food sources shift. Iconic and amazing Galápagos finches, some of which even learned how to use tools.

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How to Be a Better Birder: A Review by an Aspiring Birder

10,000 Birds

The cover of the book (not of Derek Lovitch) gives you some idea of the tools the better birder needs in the early 21st-century. There are other resources that do this better, he says, and, in fact, spends 10 pages recommending field and advanced bird guides, web sites, magazines, and listservs. And one of those tools is Geography.

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

10,000 Birds

Besides the urgent need to identify my dragonflies, I was interested in hands-on experience using these field guides. These photographic field guides are lovely to look at and easy to use, providing a variety of tools for species identification. I’m going to look at Britain’s Dragonflies first.

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