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Kaufman Field Guide to Nature of New England: A Field Guide Review by an Aspiring Naturalist

10,000 Birds

The following section on Habitats serves to provide the larger picture, frameworks in which to root the hundreds of individual species to follow. And, the concluding identification chapter on Beach and Tidepool Life, with entries on seashells, crustaceans, and seaweed, provides informative material on a unique part of New England.

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10 Countries, 10 Top Birds in 2016

10,000 Birds

Like a lot of people I know, the body blows of the news the world at large were tempered by a year that was personally rather good. I saw Painted Wolves again, my favourite species ever. In particular they evoke the New Hampshire lake my extended family descends upon each summer and has done so from before I was born.