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Vagrancy in Birds: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

It also summarizes the vagrancy status of every bird family in the whole wide world, which makes it fun to read as well as superbly educational. This leads to googling birds and countries and then day dreaming about visiting these countries and seeing those birds, making for a rather time consuming reading period.

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The new law will cost American family farmers, and ultimately California consumers, hundreds of millions of dollars. Reversing the agricultural trends of the last half century is a policy area where almost everyone’s interests are aligned. Gene Gregory President, United Egg Producers Alpharetta, Ga.,

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Bird Talk: An Exploration of Avian Communication–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Ballantine and Hyman explore how birds communicate and summarize studies on how that communication functions in diverse bird families all over the world. Their text is combined with 200 (rough count) brightly colored photographs, many full or three-quarter page in size, and 10 charts and diagrams. This is a beautifully designed book.

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Endemic Birds of Cuba: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Each species account starts with names–family name at the top of the page, followed below by English name of the species, alpha code, scientific name, local name in Cuba and the standard name as accepted by the Sociedad Española de OrnitologĂ­a (SEO). It’s time to bird Cuba and it is time to learn more about Cuban naturalists.

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