10,000 Birds
APRIL 2, 2013
A breeding bird atlas is a special kind of book. For birders, it’s the extremely large book, shelved in a place where it can’t crush the field guides, used to research the history of a bird in their area. So, what exactly does a breeding bird atlas contain? The resulting book, 616 pages in length, 6.4
10,000 Birds
MAY 3, 2022
Bolivar Flats Shorebird Sanctuary was an amazing and unexpected treat, but that’s because I failed to do my research. I should have known that birding High Island meant I would be 20 minutes away from a place where hundreds of thousands of shorebirds and waterbirds rest, feed, breed, and generally have a good time. Clapper Rail.
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 4, 2022
Although Henslow’s had been reliably found in nearby Sharon Springs for many years, the last documented sighting was in 2008, and the sighting startled longtime birders, waking them up to the fact that breeding sites in the state were rapidly being lost. In July 2011 a Henslow’s Sparrow was found in Ames, N.Y.,
10,000 Birds
JULY 17, 2012
Back in October 2008, in his first field job out of school, he helped a Cornell PhD student, Karl, with his dissertation on vocal communication in Green-rumped Parrotlets Forpus passerinus. You don’t really know a bird until you’ve studied it on its breeding grounds. Not good, I think – it will probably be another scorcher.
10,000 Birds
JULY 24, 2014
Using ministerial connections he obtained 100 mallard eggs from the US and began to breed and distribute them. Indeed, by 2008, when I first really became aware of the issue, the West Coast of South Island was pretty much their only stronghold. I mentioned 2008 as the year I became aware of the issue. Or so it was assumed.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 5, 2013
A little bit of research when I got home unraveled the ways of publishers here and in Great Britain. The first, Field Guide to the Birds of Trinidad & Tobago, was published by Christopher Helm in London in 2007 and then published in the United States in 2008 by Yale University Press.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 5, 2012
We now know a lot more, and the following information is largely based on the excellent work of our local bird data compiler Armin Konrad , who was amongst the first to notice the die-off in the first place and was also instrumental in coordinating the surveys and research that finally led to the identification of the culprit!
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