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National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America, 7th Edition: A Field Guide Review

10,000 Birds

So, yes, Thayer’s Gull is in the book, but the reader is cautioned that the gull with be lumped with Iceland Gull “in the near future.” Most of the species are described in the Species Accounts, arranged taxonomically into 86 family chapters. ” It’s a tough, fast-changing taxonomic world out there! .

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Seabirds: The New Identification Guide: An ID Guide Review

10,000 Birds

It covers 434 species across 9 orders and 18 families of birds. The way Harrison explains it, its current “lump” with Iceland Gull is not satisfactory; he follows Malling Olsen (Danish field ornithologist and gull guide author) in keeping it as a full species “pending further study” (p.

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