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Baby Bird Identification: A North American Guide–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

These prescriptions are very important to Tuttle-Adams, who takes the perhaps radical approach that a bird’s welfare supersedes a birder’s ‘right’ to take a photograph. Harrison, and Nests, Eggs, and Nestlings of North American Birds, 2nd ed. It is not an identification guide for everybody.

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Birds of the Northern Forest – An homage

10,000 Birds

It depicted a Common Loon ( Gavia immer ) sitting on eggs on a seemingly crude nest. Published in 1966, it is a collection of brief profiles and magnificent portraits of 56 of the region’s most characteristic birds. To know birds is to value them; to value birds is to be devoted to their welfare.

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