The morning of my first pheasant hunt in North Dakota, I stared at the male pheasant painted on the side of my coffee cup hoping the artist's rendition was true to life. I tried to memorize the exact ...

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The Peterson (Roger Tory) Reference Guide series of bird identification books continues with another fine ID assist, perhaps the most-needed of recent issues. Latest in this series deals with North ...

The Peterson Reference Guide series of bird identification books continues with another fine ID assist, perhaps the most-needed of recent issues. The latest in this series deals with North American ...

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Roger Tory Peterson died 12 years ago but a brand new "Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America" has just been published. It is a superb book and Peterson himself would have been pleased. As ...

Author Marc Parnell recently published his newest book “The Birding Pros Field Guides Birds of Maryland” through independent publishing house Naturalist & Traveler Press, which specializes in nature ...

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In the time since I received my first bird identification book for Christmas last year, my knowledge about Minnesota’s more commonly spotted birds grew steadily before flattening to what felt like a ...

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