Seabirding off Cape Point
10,000 Birds
APRIL 2, 2012
Here and there the occasional Cape Gannet can be seen plunge-diving in the distance, while Kelp Gulls in loose groups fly past on their way out to the trawling grounds.
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Summer Books for Kids (and the rest of us)
10,000 Birds
JULY 1, 2014
The targeted age group is 6 to 11 years. Roth depicts a brown, tail-banded, evil-eyed hawk with an open-eyed parrot held upside-down, wings spread, in its claws). Only, instead of a group of children going on scientific adventures with their teacher, a band of five young bluebirds go on bird watching adventures on their own.
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The American Birding Association Field Guide to Birds of New Jersey: A Book Review
10,000 Birds
MAY 6, 2014
Wright and Small offer additional material, illustrating anatomical parts, like wing stripe, tail band, and rump, that are used in the species accounts. An additional aid to finding specific birds is the page design, which places page number and bird group on the upper left and right hand corners of the left and right pages.
Hawks In Flight, Second edition: A Review of a New Version of a Birding Classic
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 2, 2012
Hawk watchers and birders who look at hawks (not always the same group!) There are probably more identification guides about raptors than there are for any other bird group. ” There are the classic field marks, size of head and shape of tail, but, we are told, never rely on just one or two features!
Charles Harper’s Birds & Words: A Review of a Classic Reborn
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 4, 2014
Yet, it is amazing how many identification features are evident in his bird pictures—the fire-red head, streaked back, white wing bars, and white-tipped tertials of the Western Tanager, the white tail band on the Eastern Kingbird, the black-bordered white eyebrow of the Red-eyed Vireo.
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