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A Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching: Getting to Know the World’s Most Misunderstood Bird: A Book Review by a Pigeon Cynic

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Mosco is also the author of Birding Is My Favorite Video Game: Cartoons about the Natural World (2018, a collection of Bird and Moon comics); co-author of several children’s books, including The Atlas Obscura Explorer’s Guide for the World’s Most Adventurous Kid (2018) with Dylan Thuras and Joy Ang, Butterflies Are Pretty … Gross!

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Murder Most Wildfowl: A Review of “A Dance of Cranes” by Steve Burrows

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Since the last notice of him on this blogsite (in June 2018), Steve Burrows has published two more novels in his terrific “Birder Murder” series, the fifth and sixth – respectively, A Tiding of Magpies and, now the latest, A Dance of Cranes. In A Dance of Cranes, dancing, both avian and human, is a leitmotif. (For

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Splitsville

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Splits were once a much more subjective determination, based on differences in appearance, vocalizations, habits, and breeding preferences. I have never seen a “Brown-throated ” House Wren near human settlements. Western Mexico’s Cinnamon-rumped Seedeater , split since 2018. The examples go on and on.

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Birds of Belize & Birds of Costa Rica: A Field Guide Review Doubleheader

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The first is that the illustrations by Dale Dyer are based, and largely seem to be the same, as the illustrations for his previous guide Birds of Central America: Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama (co-authored with Andrew Vallely, PUP, 2018). © 2018, Princeton University Press D. © 2003 text H.

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Endangered Species Act: Potential Downlisting for Hawaiian Goose (nene)

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In the case of the Hawaiian Goose ( Branta sandvicensis ), the public notice was published in the Federal Register on April 2, 2018. In particular, a captive-breeding program (1960-2011) likely saved the species from imminent extinction (2,800 were released) and expanded the range of the species to islands where they had been extirpated.

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For the Birds: Midway Atoll Mouse Eradication and NEPA

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The Northwestern Hawaiian Islands are home to some of the largest assemblages of breeding seabirds in the United States. On March 21, 2018, FWS released a 198-page document entitled “ Midway Seabird Protection Project — Draft Environmental Assessment.” The public had until April 20, 2018 to comment.

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The Shorebirds of North America: A Natural History and Photographic Celebration–A Book Review

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Shorebird identification takes time and is often stressful, there’s heat glare and bugs and drones and dogs and humans. Unlike many of my friends, I have been slow to master the art of instantly picking out White-rumps, locating the Stilts, and–forget about differentiating between Short-billed and Long-billed Dowitchers!