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Birding By Impression: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

GISS—general impression, size, shape—is intuitive, the result of an unconscious cognitive process derived from experience in the field. It is not a handbook, though it approaches species from a collective viewpoint. .* These chapters differ in length and content, depending on the number of species in each group.

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Mrs Pankhurst’s Purple Feather–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Their populations, plus those of other species that ‘wore’ the coveted long, colorful feathers used for women’s fashionable hats, were being dangerously depleted by hunters intent on feeding the millinery industry. As a librarian and women’s studies scholar, I greatly appreciate the research. This is where Boase excels.

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Review Classic: The Warbler Guide

10,000 Birds

With nine years of experience using it and birding with beginning birders, I would like to update that opinion. And, I’m happy to say that the guide is as visually exciting and fun to use as it sounded in the workshop. Rereading this review, I see that I was not sure if this was a good guide for beginning birders.

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The Warbler Guide: A Book Review by a Warbler-challenged Birder

10,000 Birds

The videos and talks have wet our appetites for a book that promises to be visually exciting and fun to use, designed by birders who have used their own experiences in the field to determine what warbler seekers really need. I do love the fact that the table of contents lists all three names (all pointing to the same species account).