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Springtime in Bonn

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In the picture below, it looks quite drowsy as it briefly blinked the split-second I pressed the shutter. This abundance by no means meant theat they are easy to see, and I got quite a sore neck from peering into the canopy. I spent some time sitting on the lawn and watching an Eurasian Green Woodpecker forage around me.

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ABA Field Guides to Birds of Colorado and Florida

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This latest addition to the ABA State Field Guide series is sorely needed in places like Wakodahatchee. The binding also appears to be strong; I’m able to open to Prairie Falcon in Colorado , pressing open the pages so they lie flat, without fear that I will crack the spine. (It’s Interestingly, there is little overlap.

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When Birds Are Near: Dispatches From Contemporary Writers

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It’s a bit of a sore thumb, a well-known essay by a famous writer-who-is-also-a-birder in a collection of essays by new and experienced-but-as-well-known-as-they-should-be writers, and I wish Rogers had given some background on its placement here. Press, 2011). Press, 2020, 304p. Comstock Publishing/Cornell Univ.

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The Nonessential Whooping Crane

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Congratulations to them and many thanks to the many, many participants of each phase of this fun, fun, fun giveaway as well as Richard Crossley and our friends at Princeton University Press ! .&# He and his mate were one of the few successful pairs in the whole eastern flock! Spring is the perfect season to take this book for a spin!

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