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Birds of Belize & Birds of Costa Rica: A Field Guide Review Doubleheader

10,000 Birds

The first is that the illustrations by Dale Dyer are based, and largely seem to be the same, as the illustrations for his previous guide Birds of Central America: Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama (co-authored with Andrew Vallely, PUP, 2018). Fantasy is the key word here. Doing this work takes time!

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Birds in Winter: A Book Review, Written in Winter

10,000 Birds

This includes current research (up to about 2016, but mostly earlier) on how climate change and human change are affecting the birds’ ecology and behavior. The effect can be overwhelming, and I found myself reading some sections two, even three times, to understand it all.

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I and the Bird: What is a Vulture?

10,000 Birds

We’ll take these two similar, yet very different groups of birds separately. Thailand’s Adopt a Vulture Program – YC Wee, Bird Ecology Study Group. Panama’s Vulture – Jan Axel, Jan’s Birding Blog. Vultures, Human Evolution, and Windmills – Greg Laden, 10,000 Birds.

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Woodpeckers of the World: A Photographic Guide–A Review

10,000 Birds

I particularly liked the section on Anatomy and Morphology, which explains the anatomical adaptations that enable woodpeckers to do the things they do, like drum at rates that would explode human skulls. The Species Accounts vary in length from one to three pages.

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A scaredy cat is always a scaredy cat

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Researchers comparing these traits across groups of closely related species – parrots, tits, sparrows, darwins finches etc – find no general correlation between neophobia and exploration. So the human equivalent of frog in a bowl might be. So assaying exploratory tendency in humans. sort of “bland&# diet (e.g.

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We Interrupt Regularly Scheduled.

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The cozy relationship between Honduras’s military coup leaders and the corporatocracy were confirmed a couple of days after my arrival in Panama. The school is best known for producing Latin American officers who have committed major human rights abuses, including military coups. (5) Now, that optimism was turning sour. 3) George W.

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