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The Feathery Tribe: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Henshaw, a personal friend as well as colleague who spent years studying the birds of Hawaii and who was known even then for his enthusiastic shooting and collecting practices. Ridgway spent the rest of his career in the Castle, the Smithsonian building that then housed the National Museum’s bird collection.

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Peterson Field Guide to North American Bird Nests: A Field Guide Review

10,000 Birds

The guide covers over 650 species, most of the breeding birds in the United States (minus Hawaii) and Canada (like most guides with ‘North America’ in its title, it does not include Mexico or the Caribbean). To be fair, the Sparrow Chart is cited in the sparrow family group write-up, but it could be easily missed.).

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