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Field Guide to North American Flycatchers: Kingbirds and Myiarchus: A Field Guide Review

10,000 Birds

The range maps contain an amazing amount of information: breeding, non-breeding, and year-round range in North, Central, and South America; migration routes for most species (including subspecies migration routes), and vagrancy range. The spectrograms are much easier to read in this volume, larger and darker.

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Licking Clay: the Macaws of Tambopata, Peru

10,000 Birds

Found throughout South America in ever-dwindling numbers these extremely beautiful birds – threatened by habitat destruction and collection for the wild bird trade – are often difficult to see and hard to find. Volunteers are one of the most important aspects to the project.

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South Africa’s endemic birds

10,000 Birds

My home country of South Africa can only be described as a birding paradise! In 1996, several pipit specimens were collected for DNA analysis and it turned out that there was not one, but two new species to science in this sample!