Rare Birds of North America is a densely packed book that covers nearly all the fascinating species that you are most likely not going to see in North America. These rare birds, some of which have but a single confirmed sighting, can show up nearly anywhere at any time, but as this book shows, most
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Review of Rare Birds Yearbook 2009
The Rare Birds Yearbook 2009 is out and it is terrible. Terrible in the fact that such a book needs to exist. Terrible that the world’s 190 most threatened birds face potential extinction. Thankfully, that is where the terribleness ends and some hope arrives. Much like the 2008 version (Rare Birds Yearbook 2008: The World’s
Rare Bird in Arizona – Sinaloa Wren
Matt Brown of The Patagonia Birding and Butterfly Company in Arizona and Robin Baxter found a singing Sinaloa (Bar-vented) Wren at the Nature Conservancy’s Patagonia-Sonoita Creek Preserve in Patagonia, Arizona. This will be a new record for the ABA area and the search is on to re-locate the bird, seen Monday morning between ten and