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Where to Find Me at the 2015 Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival

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The 18th Annual Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival is less than a month away and while we don’t have snow down yet here in New York City I am pretty sick of cold weather and could use some warmth and Florida sunshine! I can’t wait to be in Florida!

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The Wonderfulness of Local Field Guides: Reviews of ABA Field Guide to Birds of Maine & Birding Guide to the Greater Pasadena Area

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There are some excellent web guides, like the New York City Audubon “ Birding in NYC” guide , but these are not books. And there is original artwork too, by Catherine Hamilton, birder, tour leader, journaling workshop instructor, board game artist, professional bird artist, and Pasadena Audubon member.

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Birding By Impression: A Book Review

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GISS—general impression, size, shape—is intuitive, the result of an unconscious cognitive process derived from experience in the field. And, let’s face it, how many birders can say with certainty if a roosting nightjar is a Chuck-wills-widow or a Whip-poor-will, as New York City birders learned a couple of weeks ago?)

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Mrs Pankhurst’s Purple Feather–A Book Review

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Fitting, since New York City and London were the centers of the millinery trade. She recreates Alice’s world, describing the poverty in which she and her co-workers, including children, lived, utilizing reports of government Factory and Workshop inspectors and, on the U.S. This is good stuff.

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