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It’s the Holiday Season — Give Birding Books!

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Nate introduces the tools, skills, and knowledge base of birding with friendly encouragement, combining text with activities that range from field sketching to using eBird. This is also a good time to catch up on supplementary titles, such as guides to bird families. So, Happy Holidays to all!

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North American Songbirds: A Book Review

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Scientific names don’t reflect the massive changes to species in the warbler family. Tanagers are listed in the table of contents as members of the Tanager, Thraupidae , family, not members of the cardinal and grosbeak, Cardinalidae , family. Blackpoll Warbler, for example, is listed as Dendroica striata , not Setophaga striata.

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Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History from Cave Art to Conservation–A Book Review

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Although historically Elizabeth has been credited with creating lithographs based on others’ drawings (her husband’s), there is research indicating that she was actually the artist who drew and colored the original images.

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Peterson Field Guide to Bird Sounds of Eastern North America: A Book Review by a Sound Challenged Birder

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Species Accounts are arranged taxonomically, grouped by family. Family sections start with a brief description of the characteristics shared by the species in the family, followed by a description of the sounds made by those species and how they obtain their song/call knowledge.

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Feeding Wild Birds in America: Culture, Commerce & Conservation: A Book Review by a Curious Bird Feeder

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I also enjoyed reading the company histories of familiar brands like Duncraft, Kaytee, Droll Yankee, and Wagner all of which started as family companies, some as offshoots of other businesses, some as the result of clever inventions. The story of Duncraft is a good example. If you are one of those 58.2

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The Sibley Guide to Birds, Second Edition: A Review of an Iconic Guide in a New Edition

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Birds are arranged in taxonomic order, organized into sections based on families. In some cases, families that were separate in Sibley One are grouped together in Sibley Two (Mockingbirds, Thrashers, Starlings, Accentors, Wagtails, and Pipits–yes, that is one section). Again, access is important.

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Britain’s Birds: An Identification Guide to the Birds of Britain and Ireland–A Book Review

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My librarian self is partial to a more strict taxonomic organization, but with no hope that the constant shifting of families will end in the near future, this type of sequence is making more and more sense. The book’s organization reflects the authors’ goal of making this a guide accessible to birders of all levels and skill.

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