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Hawks In Flight, Second edition: A Review of a New Version of a Birding Classic

10,000 Birds

Hawk watchers and birders who look at hawks (not always the same group!) There are probably more identification guides about raptors than there are for any other bird group. ” There are the classic field marks, size of head and shape of tail, but, we are told, never rely on just one or two features!

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Summer Books for Kids (and the rest of us)

10,000 Birds

I enjoy collecting children’s books about birds and nature that I come across in the expected (book stores) and unexpected (academic library conference reports) places. The targeted age group is 6 to 11 years. And, the parrots almost, but not quite, disappear from the face of the earth. It really isn’t. Mainor and Sandy F.

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Seabirding off Cape Point

10,000 Birds

Here and there the occasional Cape Gannet can be seen plunge-diving in the distance, while Kelp Gulls in loose groups fly past on their way out to the trawling grounds.

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