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Birding Ruili, Yunnan

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Recognizing its value for eco-tourism and biogeographical research, it is essential to conserve this magnificent bird. Some research topics seem a bit bizarre to me. This could hint at a solution for the struggling Chinese housing market – moving to a new apartment for each new child?

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Baby Bird Identification: A North American Guideā€“A Book Review

10,000 Birds

An impressive combination of research and artwork, combined with a pragmatic organization aimed towards quick identification, and education, Baby Bird Identification extends the frontiers of bird identification guides and is an important contribution to wildlife rehabilitation literature. and three of the nine woodpeckers illustrated.

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Birding Sukau, Sabah, Borneo

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A kingfisher with a somewhat deficient work ethic, I guess. The resident fashion critic of eBird is not very impressed with the Orange-backed Woodpecker , stating that it is “dressed all in patchwork” It has one of the more stupid-sounding genus names – Reinwardtipicus, which is made up of the name of Dutch naturalist Prof.

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American Birding Association Field Guide to Birds of Ontario: A Field Guide Review

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The book is designed with quick searching and researching in mind, with colored blocks indicating bird family in upper right and left corners, common bird names in large, bold print, and a highly readable font. Lengthy captions point out key identification features, mostly plumage-based, sometimes including behavior, size, and structure.

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Learning the Birds: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

I soon found that this bird world is one with its own logic, rules, and ethics, a place with its own language and literature, its own art and history, its heroes and a few heroines. My goal was to get to know the birds and the world that surrounds them. birder, as in ‘who needs art?

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Into the Nest: A Book Review in the Time of Nesting

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Third, observing and photographing breeding birds and their young have become acts of ethical confusion as birders, photographers, and organizational representatives debate the impact of our human presence on the nesting process. Think of birds too much as humans and you lose the specialness that makes them birds. Yellow Warbler fledgling.

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National Audubon Society Birds of North America: A Guide Review

10,000 Birds

There are sections, ranging in length from a paragraph to two pages, on taxonomy, bird names, habitat, ranges, migration, courtship and breeding, flight, bird intelligence, bird communication; identification; finding birds, life lists; optics and photography; ethics; bird feeding; and conservation. These are all informative and current.