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Birds of Bolivia: Field Guide–A Book Review

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Jon Fjeldså’s contributions include many of the ducks, yellow-finches, and many other families where his images of Birds of the High Andes could be used. And, it has to be added that all of these artists and the additional seven artists contributed images that filled out plates of most of the bird families.

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Easy, Bonus Birding at Cano Negro, Costa Rica

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The real Gung-Ho, Kung-Fu birders would have drove to this site at midnight and just slept in the car or looked for owls until the dawn chorus in excellent middle elevation rainforest but since we have families, and I hate being exhausted and zombie-eyed from lack of sleep, more leisurely birding was just peachy.

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‘Tis the Season: Notable Bird Books (and Booze and Binoculars) of 2020

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Wenfei Tong’s Bird Love: The Family Life of Birds addresses such topics as courtship, mating systems, raising chicks, sex role reversals, and others. Aglianico is a rustic and savory red wine from Southern Italy made from a venerable grape of the same name. Look at that cover! Grifalco Aglianico del Vulture “Gricos” (2016).

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