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

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Mark]: This luscious book, Penguins: The Ultimate Guide , by De Roy, Jones, and Cornthwaite, is the second edition of a book first published in 2015. Anything else we could say about this great book would only be more in the way of superlatives. (And the price has not increased since 2015; it’s a bargain.).

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Feeding Wild Birds in America: Culture, Commerce & Conservation: A Book Review by a Curious Bird Feeder

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How to choose bird feeders; how to make nutritious bird food; how to create a backyard environment that will attract birds; how to survey your feeder birds for citizen science projects; how to prevent squirrels from gobbling up all your black oil sunflower seed (sorry, none of that works). million people in the U.S. in 2011*) came about.

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Vagrancy in Birds: A Book Review

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Less and Gilroy sort through the exogenous (external) and endogenous (internal) factors thought to cause vagrancy and the scientific experiments that have sought to prove their significance with patience and plain language as well as charts and photographs. It’s not always easy reading.

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New Birding For A New Year

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Here are a few suggestions for 2015: Lets get the incredibly unoriginal stuff out of the way first… do a big year. The citizen science aspect is a big hit with many users, and eBirding areas with little existing data can be fun as well. Frustrated that you still haven’t seen an Elegant Tern (above)?

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Birding By Impression: A Book Review

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GISS—general impression, size, shape—is intuitive, the result of an unconscious cognitive process derived from experience in the field. I would be more apt to accept the science of BBI if the science of hemispheric brain functions was not subject to so much misconceptions and simplification.* I like Birding by Impression.

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Birding for the Curious: A Book Review

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This makes for an attractive looking book, but I do think that the page space could have been put to better use, maybe for a listing of the resources (organizations, field guides, citizen science websites) recommended throughout the book. September 15, 2015. A Redux” but is really about birding and conservation. .

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Better Birding: A Book Review (& a New Year’s goal)

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It is the last day of 2015, time to select the bird of the year past and set goals for the bright open future, when everything is new again. and is currently events coordinator for the American Birding Association and a research associate in the Ornithology Department at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University.

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