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The American Birding Association Field Guide to Birds of New Jersey: A Book Review

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Small, the guide’s main photographer, has contributed to many birding field guides and articles; he was photo editor of Birding magazine for 15 years and comes from ABA royalty—his father, Dr. Arnold Small, was one of the organization’s founders. I think beginning birders will find this section very useful; often, diagrams are not enough.

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Summer Books for Kids (and the rest of us)

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Roth depicts a brown, tail-banded, evil-eyed hawk with an open-eyed parrot held upside-down, wings spread, in its claws). There is also a chronology, “Important Dates in the History of Puerto Rico and Puerto Rican Parrots” and “Authors’ Sources,” books and articles about the parrots and Puerto Rico. A second aviary is created.

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Hawks In Flight, Second edition: A Review of a New Version of a Birding Classic

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.” There are the classic field marks, size of head and shape of tail, but, we are told, never rely on just one or two features! In addition to differences in tail bands, streaking on juveniles, and flight style, the authors offer behavioral clues which I find fascinating and much easier to remember than width and color of tail bands.

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Charles Harper’s Birds & Words: A Review of a Classic Reborn

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White article on bird feeding stations. And so, “Feeding Station Birds,” an article featuring Charley Harper’s first focus-on-the-birds illustrations, was published in the November 1954 issue of Ford Times. Starting in 1956, Harper wrote the text for the articles as well. I just count the wings.