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Document Type
General Interest Article
Abstract
Here is a book that those who are interested in birds and their distribution in Iowa will absolutely have to possess. This volume is the successor to the book Iowa Birds, which was written by the above authors together with three others and published in 1984. It brings our understanding to the number of species of birds and their relative abundance in Iowa up-to-date. Although only twelve years elapsed between the publication of the previous volume and this one, the activity of those interested in identifying birds increased enormously during those years. In addition, their ability to identify and find rare or unusual species increased as well. One obvious result of this is that the official state list of bird species seen in the state increased in those twelve years from 362 to 398, an increase of approximately 10%! So it was clearly time for a significant update of the earlier volume Iowa Birds. Birds in Iowa does a fine job in bringing our understanding of bird distribution in Iowa up-to-date.
Publication Date
March 1998
Journal Title
Journal of the Iowa Academy of Science
Volume
105
Issue
1
First Page
30
Last Page
30
Copyright
© Copyright 1998 by the Iowa Academy of Science, Inc.
Language
EN
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Wickham, Peter
(1998)
"Book Review - Birds in Iowa,"
Journal of the Iowa Academy of Science: JIAS, 105(1), 30-30.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/jias/vol105/iss1/8
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