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Seabirds: The New Identification Guide: An ID Guide Review

10,000 Birds

It covers 434 species across 9 orders and 18 families of birds. Other families are more complicated and these introductory sections are correspondingly longer and amazingly more detailed. SCOPE & SPECIES ORGANIZATION. Seabirds: The New Identification Guide is an identification guide to seabirds of the world, all of them.

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Analogue vs. digital birding

10,000 Birds

Many people are buying or downloading free bird ID apps, consequently narrowing the market niche and increasing the prices of paper books. Yet, going through the pages of a book is an irreplaceable experience. Talking of eBird, why don’t they show users the list of the bird families they observed? Then, there are apps.

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

10,000 Birds

Is a free digital download possible?) They portray the nesting cycles of Mallard, Red-tailed Hawk, and American Robin, illustrating the various ways in which birds create families. Do they have families too and do they take care of them? Also, I wish I could use the tiny birds for my own presentations. How are they different?

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Review Classic: The Warbler Guide

10,000 Birds

Happily, authors tom Stephenson and Scott Whittle are still supporting The Warbler Guide websit e, which offers free nifty Finder Guides of warblers up close, from the side, from a 45-degree angle and from below, which can be downloaded and carried about for quick reference. This is a guide for all birders. Imagine a world without warblers.

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Birds of Central America: A Field Guide Review

10,000 Birds

Within families, the species are arranged less taxonomically and more in line with “design and space considerations,” (Introduction), and on the plates themselves, species are arranged to facilitate comparison. Text is on the left, plates are on the right. Both genus names and species names are listed.

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Dragonflies and Damselflies of the East: A Field Guide Review

10,000 Birds

I know from experience how accessible Dennis is, last year he helped me identify a damselfly I photographed in Costa Rica (Argia anceps, no common name). Species accounts are organized by family; Broad-winged, Spreadwing, and Pond for damselflies and Petaltail, Darner, Clubtail, Spiketail, Cruiser, Emerald, and Skmmer for Dragonflies.

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Make This the Year You Do Right by Animals

Animal Ethics

Spend more time with family and friends. Spend more time with family and friends—I will do X in the evening with my spouse or partner, and I will do Y with my kids on the weekend (where you and your family and friends fill in the variables appropriately). Lose weight. Quit smoking. Exercise more. Eat right. Drink less alcohol.

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