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Feather Trails: A Journey of Discovery Among Endangered Birds–A Book Review

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49-50) She is also adept at writing about conservation’s larger context in terms of its history, public policy struggles, and the science behind species re-introduction. I’d love to read a book about your adventures in Guatemala studying Yellow-naped Amazons, Sophie!)

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A Lump and a Split and the List is Shredded?

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Genetic differences in throat color illustration by Liz Clayton Fuller/Bartels Science). Besides the familiar Myrtle and Audubon (photo above by Mike Wisnicki/Cornell Lab) forms, the scientists make a case for Goldman’s Warbler —mostly endemic to Guatemala—as a separate species. Breeding range map by David Toews/Cornell Lab).

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I and the Bird: What is a Grebe?

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I would never have believed it, but if the science says so who am I to argue otherwise? Among grebes there have been several extinctions in the last few decades, the most famous of which is perhaps the Atitlan Grebe , Guatemala’s sole endemic and a victim of various environmental wrongs over a relatively short period of time.

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