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BIRD BOOKS - AMERICAS
BRAZIL bird,
natural history & travel books
GALÁPAGOS bird,
natural history & travel books
CARIBBEAN bird,
natural history & travel books
Books on the Birds
of North America including Mexico & Guatemala
BELIZE bird,
natural history & travel books
 Juan Freile & Robin Restall. Birds of
Ecuador. Helm (Bloomsbury). (Forthcoming November 2016.)
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UK |
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DE |
CA |
JP |
 David Ascanio, Gustavo Rodriguez &
Robin Restall. Birds of Venezuela. Helm
(Forthcoming April 2017).
Details.
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UK |
FR |
DE |
CA |
JP |
 Mark Pearman. Birds of
Argentina and the South-west Atlantic (2-volume set).
Forthcoming 2018? Helm:
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UK |
FR |
DE |
CA |
JP
Princeton University Press:
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UK |
FR |
DE |
CA |
JP |
| Sebastian K. Herzog.
Birds of Bolivia. Forthcoming.
Details. |
| Robin Restall. Field Guide to
the Birds of Colombia. Helm (Forthcoming
January 2018).
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UK |
FR |
DE |
CA |
JP |
| Johan Ingels & Robin Restall. Birds of
Guianas. Helm. (Forthcoming July 2017.)
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UK |
FR |
DE |
CA |
JP |
 Jesse Fagan & Oliver Komar.
Illustrated by Robert Dean & Peter Burke.
Peterson Field Guide to Birds of Northern Central
America. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
(Forthcoming November 2016). Covers Belize, Guatemala,
El Salvador & Honduras.
US |
UK |
FR |
DE |
CA |
JP |
 Nick Athamas & Paul Greenfield. Birds of
Western Ecuador, A Photographic Guide.
Princeton University Press 2016.
Details. Book:
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UK |
FR |
DE |
CA |
JP
Kindle:
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UK |
FR |
DE |
CA |
JP |
 Robert J. Gallardo & John Sill.
Illustrated by Michael DiGiorgio & Ian Griffiths.
Guide to the Birds of Honduras.
Mountain Gem Bird Tours (August 2015).
US |
UK |
FR |
DE |
CA |
JP |
 Barry
Walker.
Field Guide to the Birds of Machu Picchu and the
Cusco Region, Peru, including a Bird Finding Guide to
the Area. Lynx Edicions (June 2015).
US |
UK |
FR |
DE |
CA |
JP |
 Richard
Garrigues.
Photo Guide to Birds of Costa Rica.
Comstock (November 2015).
Details.
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UK |
FR |
DE |
CA |
JP |
  Ber van Perlo. Birds of South America - Passerines.
(August 2015).
Details.
HarperCollins & Princeton University Press. Collins:
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UK |
FR |
DE |
CA |
JP
Princeton University Press:
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UK |
FR |
DE |
CA |
JP |
 Juan Carlos Martínez-Sánchez, Liliana
Chavarría-Duriaux, Francisco José Muñoz. Illustrations
by Augusto Silva Gómez. A Guide to the Birds of
Nicaragua. Westarp Wissenschaften (December
2014).
US |
UK |
FR |
DE |
CA |
JP |
 Miles McMullan & Thomas Donegan.
Field Guide to the Birds of Colombia - Second
Edition. ProAves (August 2014).
US |
UK |
FR |
DE |
CA |
JP |
 Richard Garrigues & Robert Dean.
The Birds of Costa Rica, A Field Guide - Second
Edition. Helm & Comstock (December 2014).
Details. Helm:
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UK |
FR |
DE |
CA |
JP
Comstock:
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UK |
FR |
DE |
CA |
JP |
 Miles McMullan & Lelis Navarrete. Fieldbook
of the Birds of Ecuador. Fundación Jocotoco
2013. Out of print, but available online at
Bookread - must disable Adblock Plus on the page &
register with Playster. You can read it for 30 days
free, after which you have to pay $10/month! Unclear
whether it can be downloaded for use after the 30 days
expire. The only copies in American libraries listed in
Worldcat are at
Columbia U. &
Stanford U., if you have access. Neither
participates in Inter-Library Loan.
US |
UK |
 Richard
ffrench. Artist and Art Coordinator: John P. O'Neill.
A Guide to the Birds of Trinidad & Tobago -
Third Edition.
40 new color plates. 524 pages. Comstock (November 2012).
Details.
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UK |
FR |
DE |
CA |
JP |
 Martyn Kenefick, Robin Restall & Floyd
Hayes. Birds of Trinidad & Tobago - Second
Edition. Helm (July 2011).
Details.
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UK |
FR |
DE |
CA |
JP |
 George Richard Angehr & Richard Dean.
Birds of Panama - A Field Guide.
Comstock (December 2010).
Details.
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UK |
FR |
DE |
CA |
JP |
 Thomas
S. Schulenberg, Douglas F. Stotz, Daniel F. Lane, John
P. O'Neill & Theodore A. Parker III. Birds of Peru.
Superb field guide that crams a tremendous amount of
useful information into 656 pages. For best results,
scan your heavy, more comprehensive books and carry your
entire library to Peru in a 10" tablet. Princeton
University Press, October 2007. Reprinted with updates
and corrections 2010.
Details. Book:
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UK |
FR |
DE |
CA |
JP
Kindle:
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UK |
FR |
DE |
CA |
JP |
 Robert
S. Ridgely & Guy Tudor. Field Guide to the Songbirds of
South America / South American Passerines. University of Texas Press
& Helm (July 2009).
Details.
Helm:
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UK |
FR |
DE |
CA |
JP
University of Texas Press:
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UK |
FR |
DE |
CA |
JP |
 Guy
M. Kirwan & Graeme Green. Cotingas & Manakins.
Helm & Princeton University Press (November 2011).
Details.
624 pages, 34 color
plates by Eustace Barnes.
This is a superb monograph, but too heavy to take on
foreign trips. A Kindle edition would be greatly
appreciated. Helm:
US |
UK |
FR |
DE |
CA |
JP
Princeton University Press:
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UK |
FR |
DE |
CA |
JP
|
 Bill
Volkert. Where to Watch Birds in Nicaragua.
Chandler House Press (April 2014). 251 pages.
US |
UK |
FR |
DE |
CA |
JP |
 Jurgen Beckers & Pablo Florez.
Birdwatching in Colombia. November
2013. 274 pages. This is the essential reference for
planning a birding trip to Colombia. It is loaded with
details, including maps, directions, contacts, bird
lists, rare bird stakeouts, and plenty of photos. There
is no wasted space.
US |
UK |
FR |
DE |
CA |
JP |
 Barrett
Lawson. A Bird-Finding Guide to Costa
Rica / Where to Watch Birds in Costa Rica. Comstock & Helm (October
2009).
Details.
Comstock:
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UK |
FR |
DE |
CA |
JP
Helm:
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UK |
FR |
DE |
CA |
JP |
  Robin
Restall, Clemencia Rodner, Miguel Lentino & Robert Williams.
Birds of Northern South America. Vol. 1: Identification,
Distribution and Taxonomy. Vol 2: A Field Guide. Covers
Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, the Guianas, Trinidad & Tobago,
Aruba, Bonaire & Curaçao. 1536 pages. Helm & Yale University
Press 2007.2-Volume Set:
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UK |
DE |
FR |
CA
Vol. 1:
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UK |
DE |
FR |
CA
Vol. 2:
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UK |
DE |
FR |
CA |
 Ber
van Perlo. Birds of Mexico and Central America. The color
plates in this illustrated checklist are excellent and at least
comparable in quality to the illustrations in Perlo's Birds
of Western Africa. This small paperback can be carried at
times and in places where birders might leave behind the
detailed but heavier guides by Howell & Webb, Stiles and
Ridgely. It's also a very convenient study guide and includes
illustrations of migrants and hypothetical species. (2006). 336
pages. 98 color plates illustrating more than 1,500 species.
Princeton University Press:
US |
CA || HarperCollins:
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UK |
DE |
FR |
CA |
 Francisco
Erize & Jorge R. Rodríguez Mata & Maurice Rumboll. Birds of
South America: Non-passerines - an Illustrated Checklist.
376 pages. 156 color plates. The fine plates that Jorge Mata
worked on during a year in New York in the 1970s finally are
going to be published. 384 pages. 2006. Princeton University
Press:
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UK |
DE |
CA || HarperCollins:
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UK |
DE |
FR |
CA |
 Steven
L. Hilty. Birds of Venezuela. Second edition.
WorldTwitch 2002 Best Bird Book - South America. 878
pages. Completely new, except for the color plates by Guy Tudor
and John Gwynne. Authoritative text by Steve Hilty, 31 new color
plates, mostly by John Gwynne and Sophie Webb, and 44 color
photos of habitats. Princeton University Press & Helm. January
2003.
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UK |
DE |
FR |
CA |
 Robert
S. Ridgely & Paul J. Greenfield. The Birds of Ecuador. 2
volumes. Cornell University Press & Helm. June 2001.
WorldTwitch
2001 Best Bird Book Award.
Vol. 1: Status, Distribution & Taxonomy. 768 pages. 115
line drawings.
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UK
Vol. 2: A Field Guide. 816 pages. 96 color plates.
US |
UK
2-Volume set with slipcase
US |
UK |
| Daniel Martínez & Gonzalo González. Las Aves
de Chile: Nueva Guía de Campo.
Details. 220 pages, 181 color plates with more than 1,800
illustrations. Available from
UNORCH. |
 Alvaro
Jaramillo. Birds of Chile. Illustrated by David Beadle
and Peter Burke. 240 pages, 96 color plates. Helm & Princeton
University Press 2003. The best field guide thus far to the
birds of southern South America. WorldTwitch 2003 Best South
American Bird Book.
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UK |
DE |
FR |
CA |
|
Jean
Delacour & Dean Amadon. Curassows & Related Birds.
Details. (Lynx Edicions, 2d ed. 2004, 1973). Superb color
plates by Al Gilbert, including new plates illustrating chicks
of some species. Update chapter by Josep del Hoyo and Anna
Motis. ISBN: 8487334644. |
| Nigel Wheatley & David Brewer. Where to
Watch Birds in Central America & the Caribbean. 432 pages.
Helm & Princeton University Press 2002.
US |
UK |
| Juan Mazar Barnett & Mark Pearman. Annotated
Checklist of the Birds of Argentina. 164 pages.
Lynx Edicions 2001.
US |
UK |
| Mary Lou Goodwin. Birding in Venezuela.
Excellent site guide. 336 pages. Lynx Edicions. Revised edition,
2003.
UK |
FR |
CA |
| James F. Clements, Noam Shany, Eustace Barnes
(illustrator), Dana Gardner (illustrator), Gamini Ratnavira
(illustrator). A Field Guide to the Birds of Peru. 320
pages. Ibis
Publications & Helm 2001.
Corrections and updates. Almost 1200 species, including all
endemics, are illustrated on 80 color plates.
US |
UK |
| Bridget J.M. Stutchbury & Eugene S. Morton.
Behavioural Ecology of Neotropical Birds. 300 pages.
Academic Press 2001.
US |
UK |
| Douglas Stotz, John Fitzpatrick, Theodore
Parker III & Debra Moskovits. Neotropical Birds: Ecology &
Conservation. 482 pages. 16 color plates. 46 halftones. 51
line drawings. University of Chicago Press. 1996.
US |
UK |
| Clemencia Rodner, Miguel
Lentino & Robin Restall. Checklist of the Birds of Northern
South America: An annotated checklist of the species and
subspecies of Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Aruba, Curaçao,
Bonaire, Trinidad & Tobago, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana.
WorldTwitch 2001 Best Bird Checklist Award. Outstanding
compilation of useful information onto handy charts. For each of
2,245 species, shows the currently accepted common and
scientific names, subspecies, known and suspected distribution,
altitude range, genus history, and proposed splits.
View sample page. Pica Press &
Yale University Press 2001. 136 pages.
US |
UK |
| Martin de la Pena and Maurice Rumpoll.
Collins Illustrated Checklist: Birds of Southern South America
and Antarctica. HarperCollins 1997 & Princeton University
Press 2001.
US |
UK |
| Steven L. Hilty & W.L. Brown, A Guide to the
Birds of Colombia. Princeton University Press, 1986.
US |
UK |
| F. Gary Stiles, Alexander
Skutch (contributor), Dana Gardner (illustrator). A Guide to
the Birds of Costa Rica. Cornell University Press and
Christopher Helm, 1991.
US |
UK |
| Tito Narosky & Dario Yzurieta. Birds of
Argentina & Uruguay: A Field Guide. AOP, 1993. 338 pages.
US |
| Tito Narosky & Marcos Babarskas. Illustrated by
Dario Yzurieta. Guía de Aves de Patagonia y Tierra del Fuego.
Zagier & Urruty. 2001. 128 pages.
US |
| Robin W. Woods. Franklin D. Coombs
(illustrator). Guide to Birds of the Falkland Islands.
Anthony Nelson, 1988.
UK |
| Mark Pearman. The Essential Guide to Birding
in Chile. Illustrated by Keith Colcombe. 95 pages. Worldwide
Publications, 1995.
UK |
| Where to Watch Birds in Torres del Paine
National Park, Chile. Illustrated with photos.
Fantastico Sur. 1999. |
| Brinley J. Best, Tom Heijnen & Robert S.R.
Williams. A Guide to Bird-Watching in Ecuador & the Galápagos
Islands. 486 pages. Biosphere Publications, 1996.
US |
UK |
| Aaron D. Sekerak.
Travel & Site Guide to the Birds of Costa Rica, with side trips
to Panama. 256 pages. Lone Pine, 1996.
US |
UK |
| Kim Maquarrie. Manu National Park. 320
pages. Patthey, 2d Edition 1998.
US |
| Michael Bright. Andes to Amazon: A guide to
wild South America. BBC 2000. Companion volume to the recent
TV series. 216 pages.
UK |
| Timothy J. Killeen & Thomas S. Schulenberg
(eds.) A Rapid Biological Assessment of the Northern
Cordillera Vilcabamba, Peru. (Rapid Assessment Program
Working Papers No. 12). [Article
about the expedition] 200 pages. University of Chicago
Press. December 2000.
US |
UK |
| Timothy J. Killeen & Thomas S. Schulenberg
(eds.) A Biological Assessment of Parque Nacional Noel Kempff
Mercado & Adjacent Areas, Bolivia. (Rapid Assessment Program
Working Papers No. 10). 200 pages. University of Chicago Press
1999.
US |
UK |
| Thomas S. Schulenberg & Kim Awbrey (eds.) A
Rapid Assessment of the Humid Forests of South Central
Chuquisaca, Bolivia. (Rapid Assessment Program Working
Papers No. 8). Conservation International. 84 pages. 22 color
photos. University of Chicago Press. 1998.
US |
UK |
| Thomas S. Schulenberg & Kim Awbrey (eds.)
The Cordillera Del Cóndor Region of Ecuador and Peru : A
Biological Assessment (Rapid Assessment Program Working
Papers No. 7). 232 pages. Conservation International. University
of Chicago Press. 1997.
US |
UK |
| Robin B. Foster, Theodore A. Parker, III, Alwyn
H. Gentry, Louise H. Emmons, et al. The Tambopata-Candamo-Rio
Heath Region of Southeastern Peru : A Biological Assessment
(Rapid Assessment Program Working Papers No 6). 192 pages. 6
color plates. Conservation International. University of Chicago
Press. 1994.
US |
UK |
| Theodore A. Parker, III, Alwyn H. Gentry &
Robin B. Foster (eds.) The Lowland Dry Forests of Santa Cruz,
Bolivia: A Global Conservation Priority (Rapid Assessment
Program Working Papers No 4). Conservation International.
US |
| Theodore A. Parker III & John L. Carr (eds.)
Status of Forest Remnants in the Cordillera De La Costa and
Adjacent Areas of Southwestern Ecuador (Rapid Assessment
Program Working Papers No 2). 172 pages. Conservation
International. University of Chicago Press. 1995.
US |
UK |
| Theodore A. Parker, III &
Brent Bailey (eds.) A Biological Assessment of the Alto
Madidi Region and Adjacent Areas of Northwest Bolivia: May 18 -
June 15, 1990 (Rapid Assessment Program Working Papers No
1). 108 pages. Conservation International. University of Chicago
Press. 1991.
US |
UK |
| Helmut Folger. Kolibris. (Hummingbirds).
Text in German. 74 color photos. 174 pages. Ulmer, 1982.
DE |
| Alvaro Jaramillo & Peter Burke, The New
World Blackbirds: The Icterids. Christopher Helm & Princeton
University Press, 1999.
US |
UK |
| Jon Curson, David Quinn & David Beadle. New
World Warblers. 252 pages. 36 color plates. Christopher Helm
& Houghton Mifflin, 1994.
US |
UK |
| David Brewer. Illustrated by Barry Kent Mackay.
Wrens, Dippers & Thrashers. 256 pages. 32 color plates.
Pica Press and Yale University Press 2001.
US |
UK |
| Morton & Phyllis Isler, The Tanagers.
Smithsonian and Helm, 1999 reprint. Plates by Wayne Trimm, whose
subsequent work never approached the quality of his plates in
Smithe's Birds of Tikal.
US |
UK |
| Floyd E. Hayes. Status, Distribution &
Biogeography of the Birds of Paraguay. 1995. 224 pages. ABA
Sales.
US |
UK |
| Graham Harris. A Guide to the Birds &
Mammals of Coastal Patagonia. 1998. 251 pages. 33 color
plates & 28 line drawings. Princeton University Press.
US |
UK |
Dennis Rogers. Birding Site Guides
(Cinclus Publications):
Venezuela (1993):
US
Costa Rica & Panama (1996):
US |
| Bret M. Whitney & David L. Ross, Jr. Voices
of Costa Rica Birds: Caribbean Slope. 2 CDs. Cornell
Laboratory of Ornithology. 1995.
US |
| Anibal Parera, with photographs by Francisco
Erize. Los Mamíferos de la Argentina y la región austral de
Sudamérica. 458 pages. 700 color photos. 13 color
illustrations of mammals without adequate photos. Large format
book in Spanish with superb color photos. Editorial El Ateneo
2002.
US |
UK |
DE |
FR |
CA |
| Fiona Reid. A Field Guide to the Mammals of
Central America & Southeast Mexico. 334 pages. 48 fine color
plates. Oxford University Press. 1997.
US |
UK |
| Louise H. Emmons, François Feer (illustrator).
Neotropical Rainforest Mammals: A Field Guide. 392 pages.
University of Chicago Press. 2d edition, 1997.
US |
UK |
| Louise H. Emmons, Bret M. Whitney & David L.
Ross. Sounds of Neotropical Rainforest Mammals: An Audio
Field Guide. 2 CDs. Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, 1999.
US |
UK |
| Nalini M. Nadkarni & Nathaniel T. Wheelwright
(eds.) Monteverde: Ecology and Conservation of a Tropical
Cloud Forest. (Costa Rica). 598 pages. Oxford University
Press 2000.
US |
UK |
| Lucinda A. McDade, Kamaljit S. Bawa, Henry A.
Hespenheide & Gary S. Hartshorn (eds.) La Selva: Ecology and
Natural History of a Neotropical Rain Forest. (Costa Rica).
486 pages, 10 halftones, 17 maps, 69 line drawings, 79 tables.
University of Chicago Press 1993.
US |
UK |
| Anthony G. Coates (ed.) Central America: A
Natural & Cultural History. The result of the Paseo Pantera
Project. Coates is with STRI. 320 pages, 85 b/w & 58 color
plates. Yale University Press, 1998.
REVIEWS. Paperback.
US |
UK |
| John Kricher. A Neotropical Companion: An
introduction to the animals, plants & ecosystems of the New
World tropics. 536 pages. Princeton University Press. 2d
edition, 1999 (1997).
US |
UK |
| William Allen. Green Phoenix: Restoring the
Tropical Forests of Guanacaste, Costa Rica. 336 pages.
Oxford University Press 2001.
US |
UK |
| Andrew F.E. Neild. The Butterflies of
Venezuela. Volume 1: Nymphalidae I: Limenitideinae,
Apaturinae, Charaxinae. 274 species. 144 pages. 32 color
plates of nearly 1,200 specimens, 18 figures, 4 maps.
Details. 1996. Volume 2 (of 4) expected in 2004.
UK |
| Carla M. Penz. Heliconius Butterflies and
Their Relatives. Interesting family of slow-flying
Neotropical butterflies whose larvae feed on highly toxic
passion vines and which are often confused with numerous mimics.
Princeton University Press. Forthcoming.
US |
| Steffen Förster. The Dragonflies of Central
America exclusive of Mexico and the West Indies. A Guide to
their Identification. Covers 378 species. Numerous b/w
illustrations.
Color illustrations may be in the (presently inaccessible)
archive.org copies of Steffen Förster's now dead website. 2nd
edition, 2001. Available from
International Odonata Research Institute. |
| Firestone Atlas de Rutas. Argentina,
Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Southern Brazil. 118 pages. Cartomax.
2000.
US |
| Nuevo Atlas del Ecuador. Ediguias. 71
pages. 4th ed., 1999.
US |
| B & B Peru Map. Berndtson & Berndtson.
2001.
US |
UK |
| B & B Venezuela Map. Berndtson &
Berndtson. 1999.
US |
UK |
| Globetrotter Travel Map: Costa Rica. New
Holland, 2d ed. 2001.
US |
UK |
| Kevin Healy's Travel Map of Panama.
International Travel Maps. 3d ed. 1996.
US |
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