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The Crossley ID Guide: Raptors – A Book Review

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Families do not hike up mountains to sit all day on pointy rocks to watch woodpeckers. I’m not going to try to explain why people are fascinated by hawks; human-to-avian psychology is not my specialty. It’s hawks they pant and wait to see. And, a shorebird is not the image leading off the introduction to The Colbert Report.

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Sibley Birds East & Sibley Birds West: A Review

10,000 Birds

In addition to splits, selected rare visitors have been added (Lesser Sand-Plover, Zenaida Dove, Red-vented Bulbul and African Collared-Dove are some of the species new to the East book, Streaked Shearwater, Stonechat, Red-flanked Bluetail and Japanese White-eye are some of the West adds), and selected exotics.