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Birding By Impression: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

GISS—general impression, size, shape—is intuitive, the result of an unconscious cognitive process derived from experience in the field. I would be more apt to accept the science of BBI if the science of hemispheric brain functions was not subject to so much misconceptions and simplification.* I like Birding by Impression.

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Flock to Marion

10,000 Birds

After securing our passage, I patiently waited for this once-in-a-lifetime experience to a place we have never been and lacked any knowledge of, we were in for a complete surprise. These have been used by meteorologists, technicians, and researchers who spend about 13 months on the island at a time researching a variety of sciences.

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Birding for the Curious: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

This makes for an attractive looking book, but I do think that the page space could have been put to better use, maybe for a listing of the resources (organizations, field guides, citizen science websites) recommended throughout the book. This is their first title that is not a cook or crafts book, and I hope there will be more.

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How The Bird Got Its Beak

10,000 Birds

Similar comparisons can be made with other bird features such as how their hips work. Skeletal phenotypes from both types of experiments had premaxillae that clustered geometrically with ancestral fossil forms instead of beaked birds. Well, maybe a little better than that but not much.

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

10,000 Birds

These are extremely detailed, covering distribution, behavior, and plumage by age and gender (when relevant) and comparisons with other species in and external to the group. Mentorship is an essential part of the birding experience, and it needs to be encouraged. Just go to the boldfaced page number. Authors George L.

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Field Guide to North American Flycatchers: Empidonax and Pewees–A Field Guide Review

10,000 Birds

.” They conclude that many non-vocalizing Empidonax flycatchers can be identified in the field, but only “when several field characters are used in combination–and after one has gained experience in looking at these characters on singing/calling and captive birds (i.e., known-identity).”**

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What It’s Like to Be a Bird: A Review of the New Sibley Book

10,000 Birds

This is a delightful book, large (8-1/2 by 11 inches), filled with Sibley’s distinctive artwork and an organized potpourri of research-based stories about the science behind bird’s lives. copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley. As Sibley tells us in the Preface, he originally intended to write a children’s book.

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