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The American Birding Association Field Guide to Birds of New Jersey: A Book Review

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A good state bird guide needs to offer details about a bird’s look, sound, behavior and habitat in language that is specific enough to differentiate the bird from similar-looking species, but nonscientific enough not to intimidate novice birders. Species are organized in American Ornithologists’ Union taxonomic order.

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Charles Harper’s Birds & Words: A Review of a Classic Reborn

10,000 Birds

As an independent illustrator, he regularly contributed art to Ford Times , a “lifestyle” magazine published by the Ford Motor Company. Although Ford Times was a company magazine, distributed free to Ford customers, it had a wide circulation, claiming up to 8 million subscribers, and published notable writers and artists.