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Herpetology Vs. Ornithology

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home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Asides / Herpetology Vs. Ornithology Herpetology Vs. Ornithology By Corey • March 2, 2011 • 4 comments Tweet Share If you like science and comic strips you definitely want to read xkcd. The proposal from U.S.

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Bernd Heinrich’s new book “White Feathers” — a review

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Heinrich never answers the question definitively (but then lots of questions about bird behavior don’t have definite answers, not to us). He does, though, offer a hunch – that the resident pair are “protecting sky space.”).

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The Jewel Hunter: A Book Review About One Birder’s Quest for Pittas and Beer

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So little is known about Green-breasted Pitta, that he cannot get a definite location for the bird, or a recording of its display call. (He On the other hand, Phoebe Snetsinger’s memoir, Birding on Borrowed Time , becomes tedious because of her lack of emotional disclosure. The Jewel Hunter can be frustrating in this respect.

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At Sea With the Marine Birds of the Raincoast: A Book Review

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There are 160 to 200 species of marine birds here, depending on your definition of “marine bird” (Fox defines it as “species traditionally considered coastal,” including birds like Sandhill Cranes with the more traditional tubenoses, gulls, and ducks).

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