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National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America, Sixth Edition...
Several times in her podcasts I’ve heard Birdchick advise her listeners not to upgrade their field guide (provided their current one is no more than a decade old, or so). As the multitude of Extra...
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Larkwire: an Online Tool for Learning Bird Songs – Initial Review
Larkwire is a website devoted to helping birders learn bird songs. You access it from your computer or web-enabled mobile device, just like any other website (no native mobile apps yet, but they are...
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The Young Birder’s Guide to Birds of North America – Initial Review
The Young Birder’s Guide to Birds of North America by Bill Thompson III 2008 saw the publication of the excellent The Young Birder’s Guide to Birds of Eastern North America, by Bill Thompson III. Just...
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Save the Last Dance: A Story of North American Grassland Grouse – Initial Review
Save the Last Dance: A Story of North American Grassland Grouse by Noppadol Paothong and Joel M. Vance Noppadol Paothong’s article in the April 2012 issue of BirdWatching magazine on finding the five...
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The Warbler Guide – Initial Review
The Warbler Guide by Tom Stephenson and Scott Whittle There’s a lot to say about The Warbler Guide, a new photographic guide to North American warblers. There’s so much, in fact, that I can’t fit it...
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The Sibley Guide to Birds: Second Edition – Initial Review
The Sibley Guide to Birds: Second Edition by David Allen Sibley It’s different. Now, if you were to hand both the first and second editions of The Sibley Guide to a non-birder, they will probably not...
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National Geographic Complete Birds of North America, 2nd Edition – Initial...
National Geographic Complete Birds of North America, 2nd Edition edited by Jonathan Alderfer Back in 2005, National Geographic published the National Geographic Complete Guide to the Birds of North...
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Further Thoughts on Bird Families of the World
First, if you haven’t yet done so, read Frank Lambert’s review of Bird Families of the World: A Guide to the Spectacular Diversity of Birds. As he mentions, the goal of this book is to reflect the...
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First Look: Sibley Eastern and Western Field Guides, Second Edition
When the second edition of The Sibley Guide to Birds was published in 2014, everyone wanted to know when the Eastern and Western regional guides and the app would be likewise updated. Now, two years...
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Changes in 7th Edition of National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of...
National Geographic recently published a new edition of their popular bird field guide. As always, this new edition incorporates new species (1,023, up from 990) and the latest taxonomic updates (as...
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