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

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The lengthy Introduction gives both a personal history and a global history of birds and art, including brief profiles of John James Audubon and the far lesser known Genevieve Estelle Jones, who conceived of a book eventually called Illustrations of the Nests and Eggs of Birds of Ohio in the late 19th century.

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Feeding Wild Birds in America: Culture, Commerce & Conservation: A Book Review by a Curious Bird Feeder

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But, not a lot of information about how this national passion (52.8 He’s also worked with the National Wildlife Refuge System, co-led birding tours to Alaska, and co-authored A Guide to the Nests, Eggs, and Nestlings of North American Birds (1997). million people in the U.S. in 2011*) came about. Margaret A.

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Far From Land: The Mysterious Lives of Seabirds–A Book Review

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Where does the female Emperor Penguin go after she has produced that one egg and handed it over to the male for incubation? An array of tools ranging from geolocators to satellite trackers to depth measurers to miniature cameras have been employed by ornithologists and biologists over the past twenty years, yielding scads of information.

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What the Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds: A Book Review

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Holt and his staff, several of which are also ‘characters’ in the book, do hard-core field work, finding owls, owl nests, documenting them and working with concerned and unconcerned organizations to inform public policy decision-making. They are also hunted. It’s a lot of work.

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Hornbills of Sabah

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If you want to see photos of all 8 of them, there is a nice one-page leaflet online which is also the source of some of the information below. Another item they feed on is hunting edible bird nest swiftlets, which are quite common in edible swiftlet houses in Sabah, Malaysia ( source ). A good reason to come back soon then, I guess.

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Phillipps’ Field Guide to the Birds of Borneo: A Book Review

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Press, 2000) and the earlier The Birds of Hong Kong and South China (co-authored with Clive Viney and Lam Chiu Ying, Hong Kong Information Office, 2005). In a perfect world, a birder would have the resources and the luggage room to buy and take both guides. Browsing this field guide is a visual pleasure.

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Animals of Kruger National Park: A Book Review

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And one that is easy to use, because, let’s face it, you want to spend most of your time looking at wildlife, not searching for information. Tall grass, grass in burnt areas, leaves stems, small mammals, large mammals, invertebrates, birds, bird eggs, even hyena feces (that’s the Leopard Tortoise). Such a great variety of food!

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