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Ten Highlights from Birding in Costa Rica, 2018

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Other reminders of December in Costa Rica are palm trees festooned with Christmas lights, an abundance of annual bird counts, and sightings of winter birds like gulls, ducks, and a scattering of Yellow-rumped Warblers. Personally, I had a year accompanied by a blend of changes and birds. It has been good, I am grateful!

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Birds of the West: An Artist’s Guide–A Book Review

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Birds of the West: An Artist’s Guide’s seven chapters are each focused on a specific western habitat: Backyard & City, Wetland & Pond, Shoreline & Beach, Meadow & Grassland, Desert & Sagebrush Steppe, Forest & Woodland, and Alpine & Tundra. Western Scrub-Jay (pp.

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Aim Small, Bird Small

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.&# Happy New River Birding Festival attendees moments after adding Swainson’s Warbler to their life lists The New River Birding & Nature Festival is in the mountains of south-central West Virginia. There have not been mountains around Lake Erie (either the Ohio part or the Canada part) since the glaciers came through.

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

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He describes his experience in his introduction to Birds & Words : I took my first good look at birds as subject matter. He started experimenting with silk screening to produce most of his designs, including the images in Birds & Art. White article on bird feeding stations.