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Birds
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Flowers |
Birds |
Entomology |
Animals |
General Interest
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Backyard Birds of Summer, by Carol Lerner
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Backyard Birds of Winter, by Carol Lerner
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Field Guide to the Birds of North America, by Jane R. McCauley
This field guide of choice for serious birders combines accurate illustrations
with useful maps and text in an easily portable format. Textual information
includes notes on identification, behavior, habitat, and song; the illustrations
depict individual species in varying plumages. [review, amazon.com]
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The Beak of the Finch : A Story of Evolution in Our Time, by Jonathan Weiner
Rosemary and Peter Grant and those assisting them have spend twenty years
on Daphne Major, an island in the Galapagos studying natural selection. They
recognize each individual bird on the island, when there are four hundred at
the time of the author's visit, or when there are over a thousand. They have
observed about twenty generations of finches -- continuously.
Jonathan Weiner follows these scientists as they watch Darwin's finches and
come up with a new understanding of life itself. [review, amazon.com]
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