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Classy, Elegant Bird Art from Costa Rica

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The fleeting photo of an Ivory-billed Woodpecker tugs at and flies away with a piece of the heart, that final image of a Slender-billed Curlew is difficult to look at, it’s a stab deep inside. In the era of digital cameras and social media, images of birds are easy to come by.

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Birding the Rainforest Canopy

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Adam and Tim are experienced Florida birders with varying degrees of experience when birding the Tropical Rainforests. It was obvious that not only scientists found this attractive; canopy exploration has become popular among ecotourists wishing to experience the forest canopy. Many of these birds were lifers for them.

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The Top-5 Birding Hotspots of Serbia

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My own trip was not an intensive birding experience, and August is clearly not the most productive month. Nonetheless, I visited some excellent habitats, especially the flooded wetlands, and saw some good birds,” wrote the UK Birdwatch Magazine journalist Mike Unwin of his bird tour of northern Serbia 15 years ago.

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When Birds Are Near: Dispatches From Contemporary Writers

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Some of these essays have been published before, mostly in literary magazines or limited distribution publications. This is a sampling of the literary array Rogers has gathered from birders who write and writers who love birds. The essays range widely in place, bird, and voice, though the emphasis is on the North American.

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

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As an independent illustrator, he regularly contributed art to Ford Times , a “lifestyle” magazine published by the Ford Motor Company. Although Ford Times was a company magazine, distributed free to Ford customers, it had a wide circulation, claiming up to 8 million subscribers, and published notable writers and artists.

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Peterson Reference Guide to Sparrows of North America: A Review by a Sparrow Fan

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The text has to be read; details are not laid out in bold headed, brief paragraphs as they are in the Peterson Reference Guide to Woodpeckers of North America. Large photographic images–one-quarter to one-half of a page–illustrate various forms and significant identification features.