Spring is finally here, so we’re looking for more and more excuses to get outside. One of our favorite ways to experience the outdoors is to go birding. Luckily, there are two new Peterson guides to help you identify birds through song and sight, when you’re hiking or enjoying the great outdoors.
Peterson Field Guide to Bird Sounds of Western North America
This is a comprehensive field guide that uses an innovative Sound Index to teach readers how to quickly identify unfamiliar songs and bird calls in western North America. Read an excerpt.
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Sparrows are as complicated as they are common. This is an essential guide to to identifying 76 varieties, as well as fascinating history of human interactions with them. Read an excerpt.
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(via Vermont's Northland Journal — Chronicles of Vermont's Northeast Kingdom)
alexspaeth Up in the air again
LAUNCH DAY!! 🚀
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The Cornered Soldier This is a very old tale about a soldier who was separated from his unit on an island during World War 2. What happened was, the war was very intense … The Cornered Soldier
I just watched the 4 clearly visible planets march across the sky with the moon in the center, so here’s a short guide to the night sky as the last 3 move across.
mammenxTime lapse of the milky way rolling across the night sky, flanked by the planets Jupiter, Saturn & Mars. Taken from Diskit Ladakh, this place truly has some fantastic unobstructed views of the night sky