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Urban Ornithology: 150 Years of Birds in New York City–A Book Review

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Their sightings were published in Birdlore , the Auk , the Kingbird , and the Linnaean Newsletter. Clearly, members of the birding community and their families–thanked in the opening Acknowledgments section–played a strong role in getting this project done. . An identification guide for an overlooked bird family?

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Charles Harper’s Birds & Words: A Review of a Classic Reborn

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So, the Eastern Kingbird ”is one of the Tyrant Flycatchers, Tyrannidae –America’s largest bird family–365 different species.” And, unlike a field guide, Birds & Words is the kind of bird book you could give to a non-birding family member and still enjoy yourself, guilt-free.

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Birds of the Indonesian Archipelago: Greater Sundas and Wallacea–A Field Guide Review

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Working in an area for which there are few official checklists, no governing taxonomic body, and much new information on species relationships coming in, the authors were faced with a multitude of questions about family sequence, genus arrangements, English common names, and species taxonomy. Co-author Frank E. Species Accounts.

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Waterbirds that bred on Cyprus this year

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Other highlights came from the duck family with the nesting of three pairs of the globally threatened Ferruginous Ducks Aythya nyroca at Kanli dam, the first time this species nests outside the Akrotiri wetlands. If you want to join BirdLife Cyprus click here , or to only subscribe to the monthly newsletter then click here.

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