10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Didn’t every household have a copy of a Peterson Field Guide on the shelf, maybe a third or fourth edition that family members grew up with, which they could quickly consult to see the arrow pointing to that belly band? .” I was puzzled by what seemed like a universal lack of knowledge about hawks and falcons.

North America 237

North America America 2020 Hawaii 237

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Now, I am holding the 5th edition (2020) in my hands – what has changed in the meantime, especially in the 9 years since the 4th edition? The inner side of the front cover contains the visual Quick Reference with paintings of one representative of the family followed by the relevant page number.

Africa 264

Africa South Africa Swaziland Lesotho 264

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2023

I am puzzled as to why Gulls and Terns are almost passed over, with less than two pages of text devoted to a family description and only six species accounts (four gulls, two terns). Family follows family with no page break, making this section a little dense. Woodpeckers are a family of focus for Tuttle-Adams.

Wildlife Rehabilitation 270

Wildlife Rehabilitation Birds Family Collecting 270

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 19, 2023

A little further, there’s a family group of Savannah Elephants with two two-year olds. From 2020 to 2022, that figure was lower, about 500 animals per year, but is it because of better safety measures or fewer and consequently harder to locate quarries? The two dogs walk right next to our rover and disappear in the dark.

South Africa 232

South Africa Africa Game Elephants 232

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

But, unlike most books focused on a bird family, this one is organized geographically. They are sized variably, often filling both pages with a series of story-telling images like the Southern Rockhoppers walking right, then left, then a single individual jumping down, or taking our breath away in a single image spread out over two pages.

Penguins 278

Penguins Georgia New Zealand Albatross 278

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 5, 2020

Despite the gull fest down at the river, I rarely went birding on Thanksgiving Day as it was a special time reserved for the treasure of sharing good food and laughs with family. It seems to show at a few scattered sites now and then but connecting with one is all about being lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time.

Costa Rica 244

Costa Rica Turkey Iceland Eagles 244

10,000 Birds

JULY 27, 2023

I achieved five lifers in Michoacán in 2019, four in 2020, three in 2021, and only two in 2022. And this one’s was definitely when a bird briefly took wing just to the left of our path, only to settle right back down to the ground. With this sighting, I have now seen four of Michoacán’s six members of the Nightjar family.

Bats 130

Bats Mexico ALA 2020 130

10,000 Birds

JULY 26, 2020

Following on from the sad loss of our first Pied Oystercatcher chick of 2020 the other eggs are now also hatching. We moved back and sat on the sand and watched the Pied Oystercatcher family. As we sat observing the Pied Oystercatcher family the adult with the chicks moved down onto the sand below us and the other one stood guard.

Eggs 164

Eggs Family 2008 2020 164

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2022

All right, I’ll admit it. I’m feeling pretty good about myself right now. And I found this one because he was singing his heart out quite persistently, which certainly suggests a bird that wants to settle down and raise a family. 2020 yielded a single sighting; 2019, two; 2018, four. It means something.

Mexico 234

Mexico 2018 Ducks Breeding 234

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2021

It does seem like the order is concurrent with the 61st Supplement, which came out in 2020, but Northwestern Crow is included as a full species. A small range map is placed in the upper right/left hand corner showing summer, winter, resident, migration, and rare locations. PHOTOGRAPHIC ILLUSTRATIONS. ” These are all great.

North America 279

North America America Birds California Condor 279

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2023

2020, all also published by Firefly); children’s books and books on bird feeding. “Nothing is more humbling,” he sighs, “than spending a few hours in a boat or on a riverbank, unsuccessfully trying to catch a fish, and then seeing an Osprey dive and catch one right in front of you” (p. by 1 by 7.5

North America 224

North America Birds Owls America 224

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2022

I have not left the state of Michoacán since January of 2020. But it wasn’t until 2021 that I figured out where they are most common: right around our church! I was birding with my biologist friend Ignacio, when it flapped from right in front of us to some equally dense brush a few feet farther away. How did I miss that?

Mexico 234

Mexico Birds Virginia Barn Owls 234

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

For a few years now, every time they visit their family here, he or they go with me to bird my favorite sites. I’m not sure what they think of 2020’s low water levels, but they looked happy! ” Lesson #1 learned: It turns out that it is very easy to walk on some lakebeds, with the right footwear (or no footwear).

Ducks 264

Ducks 2020 Eggs California 264

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 28, 2019

Birding even close to home didn’t even appeal to me, as the extra movement added to the dry heaves (pregnancy is super fun, am I right ladies?). I am determined to instill the same love for the natural landscape in my friends and family, especially any new, tiny members. So cheers to 2020, and more birding adventures!

Bald Eagle 153

Bald Eagle Alabama Kansas Florida 153

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2021

A typical description of the family is that of “a tropical African and Asian songbird that typically has a melodious voice and drab plumage”, another is “small, dull-colored passerine birds of Asia and Africa”, yet another states that they are “often rather plain” Individual species get even harsher reviews.

South Africa 239

South Africa Malaysia Africa China 239

10,000 Birds

MAY 17, 2020

Kroodsma waited for years for the right opportunity to record its different songs, a “cascade of sweet and liquid notes,” one naturalist said, “like the spray of a waterfall and sunshine.”. 27, March 10, 2020. Like he does, say, for the Canyon wren. To humans, birdsong is akin to Joycean language, isn’t it? It’s a good life!

Virginia 254

Virginia Boston North America 2020 254

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2022

Wrynecks are fascinating because they are woodpeckers, taxonomically and evolutionarily, yet they do not share many behaviors and anatomical features of most members of the Picidae family. But they are woodpeckers: the genus Jynx of the subfamily Jynginae of the Picidae family. They are beautiful, but in a different way.

Woodpeckers 247

Woodpeckers Hungary Thailand 2014 247

10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2023

I knew he was also a former Marvel comic book writer and editor, but did not know that he also, unsurprisingly, had a history of involvement in LGBTQ and Black rights advocacy. I’d like to see photos of Chris birding, his Central Park compadres, his travels, and of his family, about whom he writes with such affection and intensity.

Emotional 228

Emotional Birds Minneapolis Nepal 228

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

In early November 2020, there were 15 countries with more than 1000 species eBirded so far. And for this overview, I will chose #1 and #2: Corbett and Kaziranga national parks, both in the north/north-east, right under the southern slopes of the Himalayas. Indian Rhinoceros in Kaziranga, photo Anuwar Hazarika/Wikimedia Commons.

Asia 276

Asia Malaysia Papua New Guinea Thailand 276

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 29, 2019

It was a beautiful day and there is a camping ground right on the foreshore. All the best to you and your family for good health and good birding in 2020! Two new birds for 2019 just like that! We drove down the windy road to the Walkerville North car-park to take a walk along the beach. Gang-gang Cockatoos !

Portland 146

Portland Tigers 2020 2019 146

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2020

Driving through dairy country we soon added Australian Wood Duck , Pacific Black Duck , Grey Teal , Grey Fantail , Wedge-tailed Eagle , Laughing Kookaburra , Eastern Rosella and Superb Fairy-wren to the 2020 Year List. An Australian White Ibis flew in whilst I searched for the family of Dusky Moorhen that I have observed there recently.

Fish 139

Fish Australia Ducks Japan 139

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2021

If you had your choice of one bird family to pursue, to seek out and observe and photograph and kvell over, which one would you choose? A passion for one bird family is also very useful. He sat…his crown giving searing shafts of violet as the light caught the feathers at just the right angle. Lovette (2020).

Costa Rica 264

Costa Rica Brazil Ecuador Bolivia 264

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 31, 2019

I also spent a week in northwestern Costa Rica on a family vacation, a long weekend in Barbados, a week in Georgia, and two week-plus-long trips to visit relatives in southern California. Let’s get right into it, shall we? Our family trip to Barbados was mostly about the beach but it was also chock full o’birds!

2019 142

2019 Barbados Uganda Costa Rica 142

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 25, 2022

Birding a Kimberley quarry in 2020. Windjana Gorge in 2020. Pied Oystercatcher family. If you search in the box on the right hand side of the website I am sure you will find some Australian birds of interest! Birdlife at the Fortescue River. De Grey River rest area. Eighty Mile Beach Pied Oystercatchers. A Pilbara pool.

Australia 147

Australia Singapore Birds Battery 147

10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2020

And, the One-page Index, a quick reference to locating major bird families, is placed in two locations–the front and the back of the book. The Accounts present text on the left and images on the right. Family groups are briefly introduced with descriptions of their shared characteristics. The text pages have a lively look.

North America 223

North America America Hawaii Birds 223

10,000 Birds

MARCH 23, 2020

Great Shearwater – At this point, seabirds are my weakest family in Queens with the most species having reported in the borough that I have not seen. Western Tanager – Pretty unlikely but a guy can dream, right? I just have to be at the right place at the right time. I must stare at the ocean a lot. 6 out of 9!).

2018 164

2018 2015 Birds 2019 164

10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2020

The same weakness is found in The Feather Thief (2018), a book similarly about an obsessive thief with flexible boundaries of right and wrong. And, in some weird coincidence that won’t be believed if it makes to the movie (there’s got to be a movie, right?), Simon & Schuster, February 2020, 336 pages.

Falcons 224

Falcons United Kingdom Zimbabwe Eggs 224

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2020

In what has become the modern-day traditional method of organization, species are listed and described on the left-hand page and illustrative plates are on the right. Each species is numbered, with the numbers referring to the illustrations on the right. This unfortunately happens with the large Tanager (Thraupidae) family here.

Bolivia 181

Bolivia Birds Brazil Switzerland 181

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The book roughly follows American Ornithological Society taxonomic order; a version date or number isn’t given, but it’s probably the 2020 version, before the Big Reshuffle of New World Warblers. I’ve missed this information, especially when I travel to Los Angeles to visit my daughter and her family.

Los Angeles 210

Los Angeles Birds District of Columbia Parrots 210