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| Preface | |
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| Notes on Classification | |
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| What is a Bird? | |
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| A Diversity of Nests -- photo story | |
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| Ostrich | |
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| Rheas | |
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| Emus | |
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| Cassowaries | |
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| Kiwis | |
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| Tinamous | |
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| Penguins | |
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| Surviving at the Extremes: Breeding strategies in large penguins | |
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| Loons or Divers | |
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| Grebes | |
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| Albatrosses | |
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| Shearwaters and Petrels | |
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| Storm Petrels | |
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| Diving Petrels | |
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| Pelicans | |
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| Gannets and Boobies | |
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| Tropicbirds | |
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| Cormorants | |
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| Frigatebirds | |
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| Darters | |
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| Herons and Bitterns | |
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| Storks | |
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| Up, Down, Flying Around: Courtship in storks | |
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| Ibises and Spoonbills | |
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| Feeding by Touch: Tactile foraging techniques in ibises and spoonbills | |
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| Hammerhead | |
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| Shoebill | |
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| Flamingos | |
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| Screamers | |
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| Swans, Geese, and Ducks | |
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| A Race to Breed: Food availability and clutch size in arctic-breeding geese | |
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| New World Vultures | |
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| Secretarybird | |
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| Osprey | |
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| The Fish-hunting Raptor -- photo story | |
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| Falcons | |
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| Shell-shock: The effects of pesticides on birds of prey | |
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| Hawks, Eagles, and Old World Vultures | |
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| Nature's Scavengers: Old World Vultures | |
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| Pheasants and Quails | |
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| Constellations of Eyes: The dance of the peacock and its purpose | |
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| Grouse | |
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| Turkeys | |
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| Guineafowl | |
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| Megapodes | |
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| Cranes and Curassows | |
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| Cranes | |
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| Teaching Cranes how to Migrate: Whooping crane conservation | |
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| Leaping and Bowing -- The Dance of the Japanese Crane -- photo story | |
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| Rails | |
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| Limpkin | |
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| Trumpeters | |
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| Bustards | |
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| Bottonquails | |
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| Mesites | |
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| Kagu | |
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| Sun Bittern | |
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| Seriemas | |
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| Finfoots | |
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| Plovers and Lapwings | |
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| Going Out with the Tide: The conservation of shorebirds | |
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| Sandpipers and Snipes | |
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| How Male Ruffs Compete to Mate -- photo story | |
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| Phalaropes | |
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| Avocets and Stilts | |
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| Jacanas | |
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| Painted Snipes | |
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| Oystercatchers | |
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| Crab Plover | |
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| Stone Curlews | |
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| Pratincoles and Coursers | |
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| Seed Snipes | |
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| Plains Wanderer | |
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| Sheathbills | |
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| Gulls | |
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| Terns | |
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| Skuas and Jaegers | |
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| Skimmers | |
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| Auks | |
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| Sandgrouse | |
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| Pigeons | |
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| Finding the Way Home: How do pigeons navigate? | |
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| Parrots, Lories and Cockatoos | |
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| Lotus-eaters: Nectar-feeding lories and lorikeets | |
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| Back from the Brink: New Zealand's Kakapo -- photo story | |
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| Cuckoos | |
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| A Cuckoo in the Nest -- photo story | |
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| Hoatzin | |
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| Turacos | |
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| Owls | |
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| Barn and Bay Owls | |
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| A Face for the Night: Why an owl looks like an owl | |
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| Nightjars | |
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| Nightjars and the Lunar Cycle: Hunting by the light of the moon | |
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| Frogmouths | |
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| Owlet-nightjars | |
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| Potoos | |
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| Oilbird | |
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| Swifts | |
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| Treeswifts | |
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| Hummingbirds | |
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| Trogons | |
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| Mousebirds | |
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| Kingfishers | |
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| Motmots | |
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| Todies | |
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| Bee-eaters | |
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| Rollers | |
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| Cuckoo Roller | |
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| Hoopoe | |
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| Wood-hoopoes | |
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| Hornbills | |
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| Toucans | |
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| Honeyguides | |
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| Barbets | |
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| Puffbills | |
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| Jacamars | |
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| Woodpeckers | |
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| Woodland Drumbeats and Dances: The communication system of woodpeckers | |
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| New Zealand Wrens | |
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| Pittas | |
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| Asities | |
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| Broadbills | |
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| Tyrant Flycatchers | |
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| Cotingas | |
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| Manakins | |
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| Ovenbirds | |
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| Woodcreepers | |
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| Antbirds | |
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| Gnateaters | |
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| Tapaculos | |
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| Australasian Treecreepers | |
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| Lyrebirds | |
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| Scrub-birds | |
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| Bowerbirds | |
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| Bowerbirds -- Avian Artists -- photo story | |
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| Fair Wrens and their Allies | |
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| Honeyeaters and Australian Chats | |
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| Australian Warblers | |
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| Australo-Papuan Robins | |
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| Logrunners and their Allies | |
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| Australo-Papuan Babblers | |
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| Whistlers | |
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| Vireos | |
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| Crows | |
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| Squirreling Crows: How crows cache food | |
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| Calculating Crows and Judicious Jays -- photo story | |
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| Birds of Paradise | |
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| Wood Swallows | |
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| Magpie-larks and Australian Mudnesters | |
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| Butcherbirds and their Allies | |
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| New Zealand Wattlebirds | |
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| Old World Orioles | |
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| Cuckoo-shrikes | |
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| Fantail Flycatchers | |
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| Drongos | |
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| Monarch Flycatchers | |
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| Leafbirds | |
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| Ioras | |
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| Shrikes | |
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| Helmet-shrikes | |
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| Bush-shrikes | |
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| Vangas, Wattle-eyes, and Batises | |
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| Rockfowl and Rockjumpers | |
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| Palmchat | |
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| Grey Hypocolius | |
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| Waxwings and Silky Flycatchers | |
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| Dippers | |
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| Thrushes | |
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| Old World Flycatchers | |
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| Starlings and Mynas | |
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| Mockingbirds | |
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| Nuthatches | |
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| Holarctic Treecreepers | |
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| Philippine Rhabdornises | |
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| Wrens | |
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| Gnatcatchers | |
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| Penduline Tits | |
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| True Tits | |
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| The Great Tit: The world's most studied bird? | |
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| Long-tailed Tit | |
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| Swallows | |
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| Bulbuls | |
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| White-eyes | |
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| Old World Warblers | |
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| Firecrests and Kinglets | |
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| Babblers and Laughingthrushes | |
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| Larks | |
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| The Skylark's Decline: The threat to a countryside icon | |
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| Flowerpeckers | |
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| Sunbirds, Spiderhunters, and Sugarbirds | |
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| Sparrows and Snowfinches | |
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| Weavers | |
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| The Industrious Weaver -- photo story | |
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| Wagtails and Pipits | |
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| Accentors | |
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| Waxbills and Whydahs | |
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| Chaffinches | |
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| Finches | |
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| Hawaiian Honeycreepers | |
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| Buntings and New World Sparrows | |
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| Cardinal Grosbeaks | |
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| New World Warblers | |
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| Tanagers and Tanager Finches | |
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| Icterids | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |
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| Picture Credits | |