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Baby Bird Identification: A North American Guide–A Book Review

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Birds were selected based on (1) information available; (2) information available elsewhere (thus an emphasis on altricial species and limited waterfowl coverage, since they can be found elsewhere); (3) species most commonly encountered. The scarcity of information on the young of some avian species is astounding.

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Around the World For Penguins: A Penguin Fan’s Book Review

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But, unlike most books focused on a bird family, this one is organized geographically. Plantema gives highly detailed information about the weather, terrain, ownership of and access to the islands and coasts where penguins breed. The travel and species information are great, but it is the photographs that make this a special book.

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

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It is pointedly not an identification guide, though there is a lot of identification information in it, and it is not a coffee table book, though every page is illustrated. There are also introductions to a couple of related species within the family sections–Golden-Plovers and Willets. 41; © 2024 by Pete Dunne and Kevin T.

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Birding Hongbenghe, Yunnan (Part 1)

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This is the home of the Rusty-naped Pitta , admittedly one of the less glamorous of the family, particularly the subspecies found in Yunnan, but still a nice sight and still a pitta. Fish & Wildlife Service has a web page for this species – but it contains absolutely no information. ” ( source ).

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The Art of Bird Camp

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Each year Hog Island offers programs, taught by a stellar staff of naturalists and artists, to groups of all kinds (teenagers, adults, families). The process took eight years and has since been duplicated all over the world with a variety of species, explained one of our guides … the genial and informative Dr. Kress himself.

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Birding Shanghai in October 2023

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When there are cuckoos around – which parasitize Daurian Redstarts – the females have a higher rate of egg rejection. Recently, it has become fashionable among Siberian Rubythroats to go for a slightly more subdued throat color (no source as I just made this bit of information up). Better safe than sorry, I guess.

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Frogs and Toads of the World: A Book Review by a Fairy Tale Junkie

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Or, Pygmy leaf-folding frogs, Afrixalus brachycnemis, from Tanzania, tiny climbing frogs who lay their eggs in leaves and then fold the leaves over them for protection, sealing the nest with secretions. There is a large family of frogs, Bufonidae, that includes most of the warty, hoppy creatures we think of as toads.

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