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Best Bird of the Year 2011

10,000 Birds

White-tailed Lapwing by Jochen Roeder Duncan made a surprising choice: While the twitchers might have gone with the lost Emperor Penguin that washed up in June , my heart belongs to another. And so I came, twitched, remained and watched instead of coming, twitching and driving on.

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Best* Bird Books, Binoculars, Bottles** of Booze, and Backpacks of the Bygone Year

10,000 Birds

The guide, one of the last offerings in the Peterson Field Guide series from publisher HMH, shows photos of nests of most North American species and describes nest structure, location, how the bird makes the nest, number of eggs, and what the eggs look like. Marie Read is one of North America’s foremost bird photographers.

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