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The American Birding Association Field Guide to Birds of New Jersey: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

How do you organize species, knowing that beginning birders are apt to observe birds by color first and might be confused and intimidated by a taxonomic organization? Species are organized in American Ornithologists’ Union taxonomic order. The Introduction is where you see that this really is a book about New Jersey.

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Hawks In Flight, Second edition: A Review of a New Version of a Birding Classic

10,000 Birds

The original organization of chapters on Buteos, Accipiters, Falcons, Kites, Northern Harrier, Eagles and Vultures, and Osprey has been kept, with additional chapters on Crested Caracara, Southwestern Buteos and Kin, Florida Specialties, Regional Specialties. .” Yes, I saw the bird and it was incredible.)