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Good Birders Don't Wear White: 50 Tips From North America's Top Birders

In these 50 light and fun original essays, the biggest names in birding dispense advice to birders of every level, on topics ranging from feeding birds and cleaning binoculars to pishing and pelagic birding. Whether satirizing bird snobs or relating the traditions and taboos of the birding culture, each essay is as chock-full of helpful information as it is entertaining.

Subject
science
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 288 pages
Form
essays

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