Fifty Common Birds of the Upper Midwest (Bur Oak Book) by Nancy Overcott

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No bird is common, if we use "common" to mean ordinary. But birds that are seen more commonly than others can seem less noteworthy than species that are rarely glimpsed. In this gathering of essays and illustrations celebrating fifty of the most common birds of the Upper Midwest, illustrator Dana Gardner and writer Nancy Overcott encourage us to take a closer look at these familiar birds with renewed appreciation for their not-so-ordinary beauty and lifeways. Beginning with the garishly show more colored male and the more gently colored female wood duck, whose tree cavity nest serves as a launching p show less