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National Audubon Society Birds of North America: A Guide Review

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The New York Times obituary cited the series (and Steiner’s other books, but it was the series that made money) as reshaping the publishing industry in the United States.**. If you remember that the first edition of Sibley was published with “National Audubon Society” on the cover, raise your hand.

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Listening to Falcons: The Peregrines of Tom Cade

10,000 Birds

Raised in and around the West Texas steppe country where temperatures reached 100 degrees with regularity, he began life as the Dust Bowl and Great Depression converged. Cade credited the 1965 Madison [Wisconsin] Peregrine Conference with further alerting him and many others to the plight of Peregrines and other birds of prey.

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Why Are Red-breasted Nuthatches Irrupting?

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Sitta canadensis isn’t just irrupting out of its far northern home but exploding southward, with reports in every southern state except for Florida, including birds on the outer banks of North Carolina, on Grand Isle, Louisiana, in a suburb of Atlanta, and on the Gulf Coast of Texas. Bird bloggers from Wisconsin to Massachusetts.

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The Passenger Pigeon & A Message From Martha: One Pigeon, Two Book Reviews

10,000 Birds

Avery’s trip through Kentucky, Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania and New York holds more promise. I think that Avery was reaching for a portrait of the modern United States, the one that replaced the vast forests, but it just doesn’t work. journey, written up in diary format.

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