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Briefly NotedAuthor(s):Source: Waterbirds, 33(3):423-423. 2010.Published By: The Waterbird SocietyDOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1675/063.033.0323URL: http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.1675/063.033.0323

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Waterbirds.—By Theodore Cross. 2009. W.W. Norton & Company, New York, New Yorkand London, UK. 344 pp. Hardcover, $US 100.(ISBN 978-0-393-07226-6). This outstanding“coffee-table” book includes several hundredlarge-format (up to 28

× 30 cm) photographsof 84 species of waterbirds, mostly wading birdsand seabirds. Many of the photographs show

spectacular courtship displays or other interac-tions, and some show little-known featuressuch as the transitory facial colors of breedingherons. The book also recounts the author’sexperiences during half a lifetime devoted tophotographing waterbirds. Regrettably, the au-thor died soon after publication.

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