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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. They portray the nesting cycles of Mallard, Red-tailed Hawk, and American Robin, illustrating the various ways in which birds create families.

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A Question of Migration

10,000 Birds

Itcher birds, migratory members of the tern family. Another question this raises has to do with migration itself. The authors examine migration related traits and address the theoretical problems of massive comparisons across large numbers of physical features and behaviors across many species. Specifically, Itcher Tern.

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