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Britain’s Birds: An Identification Guide to the Birds of Britain and Ireland–A Book Review

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My librarian self is partial to a more strict taxonomic organization, but with no hope that the constant shifting of families will end in the near future, this type of sequence is making more and more sense. The book’s organization reflects the authors’ goal of making this a guide accessible to birders of all levels and skill.

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The Case for Adding the U.S. Territories in the Caribbean to the ABA Area

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Both Puerto Rico and the USVI have active birding communities that are currently excluded from full membership in the ABA family. All Americans Should be Full Members of the ABA Family. Adding Puerto Rico and the USVI would largely achieve the goal of bringing all Americans into full membership of the ABA family.

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Birding Seattle

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As someone who has a spent a week this August on a family vacation in Seattle I think that I am eminently qualified to write a full blog post on how to bird Seattle. Both parks are pretty and well-attended but comparisons essentially should stop there. I found the two parks to be not at all similar.

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Birding Tongbiguan, Yunnan (part 1)

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He also served with the 13th Light Dragoons, fighting with them at Waterloo (though he can only have been about 18 at that point – I guess child protection laws were somewhat lax at that time). Atherton (1797-1827), a naturalist (whatever that means exactly) and a member of the British Army in India. A giant squirrel, actually.

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