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National Audubon Society Birds of North America: A Guide Review

10,000 Birds

If you remember that the first edition of Sibley was published with “National Audubon Society” on the cover, raise your hand. The rest of Mexico is not included, nor is Hawaii (which isn’t in North America, after all, but has been accepted as part of the American Birding Association area). I didn’t.).

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AOU 53rd supplement: Highlights and near misses

10,000 Birds

But as I and others have said before, it does raise a very practical question about what field guides, which have for the most part been slavishly devoted to taxonomic order, are going to do. Additional resources 53rd supplement (PDF) Proposals and votes David Sibley’s take Rick Wright’s take Paul Hess’s take a.

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