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A Guide to the Birdsong of South America is not as scientific as the title might suggest, but the recording does capture the voices of actual birds – whistling, hooting, daybreaking, joy ...
Lee Peterson, son of the late naturalist Roger Tory Peterson (1908 - 1996), talked about the publishing history of [A Field Guide to Birds]. Originally published in 1934, the first field guide ...
About the book: Bird songs and calls are at least as important as visual field marks in identifying birds.Yet short of memorizing each bird’s repertoire, it’s difficult to sort through them all. Now, ...
This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Picking a birding field guide is a little like picking a spouse ...
Birds of the southwest Pacific, a field guide to the birds of the area between Samoa, New Caledonia, and Micronesia, ... "Printed in the United States of America by the Vail-Ballou Press, Inc., ...
WITH so much of northern South America still uncharted, ornithologists have long required an unequivocal identification guide for the region's feathered fauna. These two volumes provide a fine ...
Smithsonian Field Guide to the Birds of North America [With DVD ROM] Ted Floyd. Collins, $24.95 (512pp) ISBN 978-0-06-112040-4 ...
Climate change is shrinking our birds. Birds in both North and South America are getting smaller as the planet warms, and the smallest-bodied species are changing the fastest, a study reported Monday.
The Outside Institute’s Field Guide to the Northeast (2022) tops any list of Hudson Valley nature guides. Written by the Institute’s founding naturalist, Laura Chávez Silverman, and artist ...
Plus ‘A Dumb Birds Field Guide to the Worst Birds Ever. ... was part of a widespread movement to bring all sorts of European birds to a songbird-deprived post-Civil War America.
“Survival by Degrees” is a kind of field guide for the 21st century—the entire 21st century—containing maps of not only where birds live now, but where they’ll live several decades from now.