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Bird Books for Children: From Colors & Shapes to Discovering Central Park

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Clearly, author Phyllis Limbacher Tildes, the author of 24, soon to be 25, children’s books, is also a birder (and a little research brings up a presentation she gave at Ogeechee Audubon, Georgia with the biographical information and she and her family “love watching birds and wildlife seen near their lagoon on Skidaway Island.”

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Here’s the new bird family tree. It’s amazing.

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Several recent studies have found that tinamous are embedded within the ratites, which means that either they regained the ability to fly or (as many researchers feel is more likely) that flightlessness and large body size arose multiple times within the paleognaths, a topic discussed in detail at Tetrapod Zoology. Jarvis et al.

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What It’s Like to Be a Bird: A Review of the New Sibley Book

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This is a delightful book, large (8-1/2 by 11 inches), filled with Sibley’s distinctive artwork and an organized potpourri of research-based stories about the science behind bird’s lives. copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley. As Sibley tells us in the Preface, he originally intended to write a children’s book.

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Collaborative List – February 2018

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Little Penguin – Eudyptula minor. Hopland Research and Extension Center (restricted access). Barn Owl – Tyto alba. Crested Owl – Lophostrix cristata. Spectacled Owl – Pulsatrix perspicillata. Great Horned Owl – Bubo virginianus. Snowy Owl – Bubo scandiacus.

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Collaborative List – October 2018

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Pacific Screech-Owl – Megascops cooperi. Stygian Owl – Asio stygius. Aplomado Falcon – Falco femoralis. Bare-shanked Screech-Owl – Megascops clarkii. African Penguin – Spheniscus demersus. Eurasian Scops-Owl – Otus scops. Cano Negro/Rio Frio flooded fields. 25 Oct 2018.

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Collaborative list – December 2018

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Hopland Research and Extension Center (restricted access). Yellow-eyed Penguin – Megadyptes antipodes. Katiki Point Penguin reserve. Little Penguin – Eudyptula minor. African Penguin – Spheniscus demersus. Barn Owl – Tyto alba. Indian Scops-Owl – Otus bakkamoena.

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Collaborative list – September 2018

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Stygian Owl – Asio stygius. Aplomado Falcon – Falco femoralis. Bare-shanked Screech-Owl – Megascops clarkii. African Penguin – Spheniscus demersus. Eurasian Scops-Owl – Otus scops. Verreaux’s Eagle-Owl – Bubo lacteus. Alphabetic Taxonomic. Parque do Ibirapuera.

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