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Our Favorite Bird Books (and one pair of Binoculars) of 2022

10,000 Birds

There was no overriding subject trend, as we’ve seen in recent years, rather a diversity of topics and approaches. Lees and Gilroy delineate vagrancy status and trends for every bird family worldwide, highlighting examples, synthesizing research, and framing it all with their own thoughts and conclusions.

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Birding Nonggang, Guangxi, China – part 1

10,000 Birds

Is there a trend toward more literary paper titles? The title of the one just mentioned starts with “Intimacy across species boundaries” … The Spot-necked Babbler is “shy and social”, according to eBird, which sounds a bit like a contradiction to me. Spot the reference? ) Isn’t that sad?

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