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The Atlas of Birds: Diversity, Behavior, and Conservation – A Book Review

By December 9, 2011 5 comments

Be warned, The Atlas of Birds is not a map book, though it does contain maps, lovely orange and purple and green bird distribution maps. It is not an encyclopedia, though it does summarize research, explain basic concepts, and ends with a section on bird statistics. And, it is not a coffee table book, though [...]

The Kaka Nestor meridionalis

By March 3, 2010 6 comments

Duncan Wright, who lives in Wellington, New Zealand’s capital city, has contributed a guest post before (in Aug 2009, Birding Wellington, NZ) packed with superb photos and birds that – frankly – some of us had never even heard of! When Duncan mailed me last week saying that he thought I “might enjoy showing some [...]