H.J. Ruiz – Avian101 – Page 587 – "My Backyard Visitors" – All about birds

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House Finch (J) —Click on image to see enlargement—

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Birds of South America – Book Review

Birds of South America – Passerines

By author: Ber van Perlo

Book Review

“Mr. Perlo is a well known author with several books about birds from different locations in the world which have been awarded as outstanding publications. If you are a birder or a bird photographer like myself, this new field guide being published by Princeton University Press is a tremendous help when you are somewhere in any of the South American countries.

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Locations where birds are abundant as well as varied and identifying the species is critical for your journal or photographic captures. I’ve been in similar situations in the middle of a rainforest or vast savannas not having an illustrated field guide to help you id your new finds.

For this field guide Mr. Perlo has been very thorough about the descriptions as well as the key bits of information about all the pertinent characteristics of the birds and not only to ID but added information about their behavior and bird’s habitats, distribution maps for the illustrated birds. The color illustrations are quite smart and precise about the plumage of the bird at different stages of age or gender. The guide covers 1,952 passerine species. I’m happy to see this field guide because I have been to South America in multiple occasions and I would have liked to own a guide such as this one at those times! Well… it won’t happen again!”

Review by: H.J. Ruiz – Avian101.wordpress.com – Sept. 26th 2015

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Autumn Shedding

With the drop of hot temperature to a bearable one, it has been a great improvement for humans as well as for birds. Suddenly I have larger amounts of birds looking for food and hang out in the backyard all day because it’s not too hot and they do not shelter themselves if they could be flying around and also foraging for insects.

One of the species that I’ve seen again after they left are the Brown-headed Cowbirds. It’s very noticeable that they are almost at the end of the molting process and they are displaying their new plumage.

I think that Autumn is going to start manifesting very soon. Last week I was very busy in my backyard trimming bushes, grasses, pruning some branches from trees and I did notice that some of the trees were shedding leaves already and others have changed their colors slightly.