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How Birds Evolve: What Science Reveals about Their Origin, Lives, and Diversity: A Book Review by a Non-Science Person

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Doug Futuyma believes in science and in the scientific basis of evolution. How Birds Evolve: What Science Reveals about Their Origin, Lives, and Diversity by Douglas J. Futuyma is a synthesis of theory and research about evolution and birds. The book is smartly organized into 12 chapters. This is a book that requires attention.

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Feather Trails: A Journey of Discovery Among Endangered Birds–A Book Review

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Her experiences are framed within the larger scientific histories how once common species become endangered, and of how people and organizations have strategized and explored controversial paths to bring their numbers up and nurture them till they fill our skies. Endangered. Extinction. Conservation. Author Sophie A.

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Dragonflies and Damselflies of Costa Rica: A Field Guide–A Book Review

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I know how intense some birders can be), I can tell you from experience that there are some exquisite, stunning odonates flying around there. Species are arranged by family and genus along taxonomic lines, but not always in accordance with the very latest molecular DNA research. Damselflies first, then dragonflies.

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The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin’s Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World – and Us: A Book Review

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He has researched and published on Manakin behavior, the evolutionary development of feathers, phylogenetic reconstruction, evolution of genitalia in living birds, the physics of structural coloration in birds, and the dinosaur origin of birds. If you haven’t read The Evolution of Beauty , I suggest you dip into it.

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

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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. The book becomes most engaging when Brooke tells stories based on his or his colleagues’ experience.

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Better Birding: A Book Review (& a New Year’s goal)

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And so, I turn to Better Birding: Tips, Tools & Concepts for the Field , the new book by George L. To an intermediate-level birder like me, the material in Better Birding –highly focused, detailed, based on the latest research and years of field experience– is daunting, but also fascinating. Authors George L.

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How to Be a Better Birder: A Review by an Aspiring Birder

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He writes about how experienced birders think, and how they draw on the sciences of weather, geography, and ecology to analyze where the birds will be. The cover of the book (not of Derek Lovitch) gives you some idea of the tools the better birder needs in the early 21st-century. And one of those tools is Geography.