Publications

A Bird List with Pictures: Why?

A review by Rick Wright HBW and BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World, by Josep del Hoyo and Nigel J. Collar Lynx Edicions, 2014-2016 2 volumes, 1916 pages—hardcover ABA Sales / Buteo Books HBWCSET In their preliminary remarks to this tally of all the world’s birds, the authors take the compilers..
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Happening NOW: Red Crossbills on the Move

On a warm summer evening, sometime in mid-June, I found myself sitting on a dock in central Wisconsin, unwinding after a long day spent working on that state’s breeding bird atlas. Mid-sip on a Summer Shandy, that familiar sound met my ears: jip-jip-jip. Distant at first, they soon approached the lake, appeared as a duo..
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