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Florida, Of Thee I Sing

10,000 Birds

O beautiful for whistling ducks! Even in the Brazilian Amazon, I’ve never seen this many whistling ducks together–there were sixty at a manmade lake behind the Brevard Community College near Titusville, Florida. Black-bellied Whistling Ducks. Get a load of the mandible on the granddaddy skimmer to the far right.

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

10,000 Birds

Each bird illustration consists of two parts–the image itself on the right-hand page full-page size with a wide white border, and the text on the left-hand page, a brief description of the bird in Harper’s distinctive voice. Each section, with one exception, offers images and text of ten birds; Vanishing Birds contains eleven.

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

10,000 Birds

Wright and Small offer additional material, illustrating anatomical parts, like wing stripe, tail band, and rump, that are used in the species accounts. An additional aid to finding specific birds is the page design, which places page number and bird group on the upper left and right hand corners of the left and right pages.