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Charles Harper’s Birds & Words: A Review of a Classic Reborn

10,000 Birds

Yet, it is amazing how many identification features are evident in his bird pictures—the fire-red head, streaked back, white wing bars, and white-tipped tertials of the Western Tanager, the white tail band on the Eastern Kingbird, the black-bordered white eyebrow of the Red-eyed Vireo.

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The Grand Old Hawkwatch of the South

10,000 Birds

It’s 90% Broad-wings, paddle-shaped with crisp tail bands, but there are a handful of Sharp-shinned Hawks mixed in too, looking for all the world like the flying gavels described in every hawk-watching tome. And Caeaser’s Head is definitely good.

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The American Birding Association Field Guide to Birds of New Jersey: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

He is a professional who would definitely not approve of any review that was not critically honest.). Wright and Small offer additional material, illustrating anatomical parts, like wing stripe, tail band, and rump, that are used in the species accounts. (Disclosure is in order here.