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Arizona, or Central Mexico?

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A quick study as I researched this post revealed that fully 37 Arizonan “specialties” are common birds right here where I live. So the only Patagonia I would choose to visit in the future, is the Patagonia to be found at the southern end of South America.

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Listening to Falcons: The Peregrines of Tom Cade

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An old curator of birds at the Los Angeles County Museum encouraged me to visit the Alaskan territory as a place abundantly populated with these birds, because even then they were becoming rare and hard to obtain.” Again, Cade led with solid evidence acquired through his own research.

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The New Stokes Field Guides to Birds, Eastern Region & Western Region: A Review of Two Books

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Based on The Stokes Field Guide to the Birds of North America , published in 2010, the New Stokes regional guides aim for more portability and ease of use in the field. Vagrants and accidentals need to be researched in the parent volume. Now, on to the books. On perched birds, wingtips do not reach near tail tip.

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314 U.S. Bird Species Threatened — Many with Extinction — by Global Warming

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Scientists all over the world are sounding the alarm about ecological disruptions already in motion, and birders in North America are already seeing changes in the distribution of species, from the 61 percent of bird species wintering farther north to expanding ranges of birds like Mississippi Kite and Great-tailed Grackle.

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