Posts Tagged ‘National Geographic’

by Geoffrey E. Hill

A very enjoyable exploration of the most obvious physical characteristic of birds.

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December 10, 2008

Books for Christmas

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Hopefully, you’ve gotten all of your Christmas shopping done by now. But just in case, here are some suggestions for any bird bibliophile in your life. Field Guides No birder will ever mind getting another field guide. I don’t think it’s even possible to have too many! Here are the latest for North America. National [...]
Publishers seem determined to test the maxim that you can’t have too many field guides. But who am I kidding? If these have new content, then I’ll be getting them! Smithsonian Field Guide to the Birds of North America Ted Floyd May 27, 2008 Details are available from ABA Sales. This sounds very intriguing, especially [...]

The following is a detailed list of changes in the 5th edition of this guide. More changes can be found in the review of the 5th edition.

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by Jon L. Dunn and Jonathan Alderfer

A worthy field guide, and significant improvement over the previous edition.

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