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Our Favorite Bird Books (and one pair of Binoculars) of 2022

10,000 Birds

Lees and Gilroy delineate vagrancy status and trends for every bird family worldwide, highlighting examples, synthesizing research, and framing it all with their own thoughts and conclusions. Although I did test them thoroughly later, I knew from that first sight, this pair was made for me.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Second of March 2011)

10,000 Birds

A Preview… About the Author Mike Mike is a leading authority in the field of standardized test preparation, but what he really aspires to be is a naturalist. I always choose a target bird for my trips to Florida, which are mainly to visit with family, but I never ever dreamed that one of my FL Life Birds would be a MacGillivray’s.

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Birding Hongbenghe, Yunnan (Part 2)

10,000 Birds

Then we are both hopeless … Anyway, the paper tests whether small roads in a forest are a hindrance to birds – are they reluctant to cross? That species is apparently at risk of extinction in Singapore – not because it is so rare, but because its genetic diversity is so low.

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