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Specific terms give fewer but more precise results:
Northern Flicker
General terms give more hits, but a lower ratio of useful ones:
woodpeckers
Specific terms may miss a book with just a chapter on your topic.
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Add words with similar or broader meanings.
E.g., use both scientific and common names for organisms, connected with OR:
Northern Flicker or Colaptes auratus
NOTE:Scientific names sometimes change!
Use wildcards (the asterisk *) in Keyword searches
forest* will find forest, forests and forestry
and variant spellings (colour, grey/gray)