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Best* Bird Books, Binoculars, Bottles** of Booze, and Backpacks of the Bygone Year

10,000 Birds

Hudson; and a primer on geological history, including the continuing zoological effects of the “Great American Biotic Interchange”; and a travelogue of an extraordinary river trip through Guyana. It’s one of those rare books, full of esoterica and wit, that you wish would not end.

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Best Bird of the Year 2011

10,000 Birds

White-tailed Lapwing by Jochen Roeder Duncan made a surprising choice: While the twitchers might have gone with the lost Emperor Penguin that washed up in June , my heart belongs to another. And so I came, twitched, remained and watched instead of coming, twitching and driving on.

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