10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2015

Barker, and Carroll Henderson is a well-researched, copiously illustrated, engaging study of bird feeding practices, personalities, inventions marketing, and companies that developed in the United States from the late 19th century to the present day, with a little bit of Canada, Europe, and South America thrown in. Baicich, Margaret A.

America 222

America Industry Squirrels Birds 222

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2013

Spending days searching for an elusive bird you finally get to see, a bird that few others have seen, a bird about which very little is even known, and then seeing it is a tremendous and unforgettable experience. Clutch size, incubation period, time to fledge, and eggs are all undescribed. Sinaloa Martin Progne sinaloae.

South America 179

South America San Diego Mexico America 179

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Experiments in the field (the famed Asa Wright Nature Center veranda) involving Bananaquits and bananas came up with numbers ranging from 7 to 16, but a tanager always came along to interfere with Bananaquits’ noisy appreciation of their namesake fruit. Richard ffrench died in 2010 at the age of 80.

Trinidad 189

Trinidad Birds South America Research 189

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2013

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. The chart of breeding bird survey data goes up, up, up, particularly for the period from 1990 to 2010. A breeding bird atlas is a special kind of book.

Pennsylvania 220

Pennsylvania Breeding Birds Sparrows 220

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Illustrations were created using diverse visual and physical source materials–skin collections from Australian museums and a database of over 300,000 photographs (plus, of course, the artists’ years of field experience). Some offer nest information, egg information, breeding timeline, in flight views, etc.

Australia 105

Australia Birds Penguins 2015 105