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But travel often involves traffic, which–at least in my case–raises stress rather than lowers it. I and my family will endeavor to stay calm on the road to central Ohio, where we’ll be spending the weekend with more family. Corey will remain local, birding in Queens and rooting for France.
Encountering exotics raises all manner of questions in birders, the toughest of which rarely center on identification. The reason I ask is because my family and I visited the Bronx Zoo this weekend. July often means travel, which sometimes means tourist attractions, which occasionally means exotic or introduced bird species.
Jon Fjeldså’s contributions include many of the ducks, yellow-finches, and many other families where his images of Birds of the High Andes could be used. And, it has to be added that all of these artists and the additional seven artists contributed images that filled out plates of most of the bird families.
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