10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2022

’ Gorman has read and distilled probably every research study ever written about Wrynecks or related to them; my quick count of the citations in the 16-page References section came to 295. and the rural Austrian folk name natterzunge or ‘adder tongue.’ Practically every sentence is documented with these studies.

Woodpeckers 226

Woodpeckers Hungary Thailand 2014 226

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2024

It’s presented here from a different perspective, both more personal and more scientific (those footnotes!). Well-researched and footnoted, these sections never feel disconnected from the more personal sections. Endangered. Extinction. Conservation. ” And within these chapters are three marvelous stories told by Sophie A.

California Condor 170

California Condor Falcons California Birds 170

10,000 Birds

JULY 25, 2022

“A reading of recent research shows that Australian birds are more likely than most to eat sweet foods, live in complex societies, lead long lives, attack other birds, and be intelligent and loud.” When I publicly present bird photos, I sometimes play the call of the bird and ask what they think it is. ” ( source ).

Birds 219

Birds Australia Ducks Mountain Goats 219

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The guide covers over 650 species, most of the breeding birds in the United States (minus Hawaii) and Canada (like most guides with ‘North America’ in its title, it does not include Mexico or the Caribbean). Acorn Woodpeckers use both communal and cooperative breeding strategies which vary widely among family groups.

Eggs 221

Eggs Birds United States Sparrows 221

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Further research revealed the Bird Hybrids blog ( [link] ) has several revealing photographs of this (and many other) hybrids. One year he was very excited when his female Hawaiian Goose hatched four healthy goslings, the first time he had managed to breed this species. These two Racklehahns were quite different.

Geese 180

Geese Ducks Falcons Latvia 180

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 26, 2021

And apart from local people, primate researchers sometimes spot it, but it is a species seen by fewer than ten living birders. This book is essentially about those birds that breed on the continent south of the Sahara, a topic few birders are familiar with.

Congo 264

Congo Africa South Africa Kenya 264

10,000 Birds

JUNE 29, 2016

But this breeding and social arrangement has its risks. And for wild pheasants ( Common , in Europe; or Ring-necked , stateside), a bigger group may actually present an existential danger. Newly published research in the journal Animal Behaviour suggests an ideal harem size for pheasants of 2.7 female birds for every male.

Game 100

Game Europe Groups Breeding 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 17, 2022

The falcon breeds in south-eastern Siberia and Northern China but winters in Southern and East Africa. Here in Shanghai, we only get to see those individuals breeding in the North (Northern China, Nothern Japan, Siberia) and not those less ambitious individuals staying further south year-round. Still as impressed as before?

Falcons 234

Falcons Japan China South Africa 234

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Here are some of the questions that were running through my mind as I read Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl : (a) Is ornithological research always this dangerous? (b) He wanted to do research that would have a conservation impact. Slaght provides funding from research grants.

Owls 131

Owls Russia Fish Research 131

10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2023

The Great Egret was in breeding plumage and courtship posture–bright lime green lores, head bending down and then snapping up, long, impossibly delicate plumes waving over its body as if possessed by independent spirits. A great-great nephew of Senator McLean, Greeley spent three years researching and writing this book.

Connecticut 147

Connecticut Washington Legislation Hunting 147

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2020

The authors’ detailed delineation of problems with the accuracy of NYC breeding bird surveys or with the limits of historical writings may test a reader’s patience. The first three sections are brief, presenting a summary of the bird’s current NYC status (migrant, resident, breeder, vagrant, etc.), It’s a very mixed chapter.

New York City 146

New York City New York Birds Breeding 146

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

Turtle Dove Turtle Doves are a protected species in Britain, in fact the status of Turtle Doves has become of so much concern there is a special project called Operation Turtle Dove created to look at how the huge declines in our British breeding populations might be halted.

Morocco 171

Morocco Turtles Protest Protesting 171

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2020

I didn’t know much about Birds of Paradise either before 2013, when I accompanied a non-birding friend to a presentation at a local college, not really expecting much. The speaker turned out to be Tim Laman, and the topic was the incredible research he and Ed Scholes had spent years doing on birds of paradise in New Guinea.

Guinea 261

Guinea Birds Papua New Guinea Family 261

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

” And, if you don’t believe them, just take a look at some of the photographic comparisons of species they present: Or, of albatross plumages: Or, read about the taxonomic confusions and scientific lapses in research on petrels, Albatrosses, storm-petrels, and diving-petrels. Which ones? Does it follow fishing boats?

Albatross 150

Albatross North America Birds Groups 150

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The following section encapsulates a chapter of biological facts into one dense paragraph–breeding location, breeding time of year, nesting notes, timing of fledging, migratory routes to and from breeding areas, staging locations, foraging locations, and more. Perrow, © Maps: Lynx Edicions. Perrow, © Maps: Lynx Edicions.

Albatross 278

Albatross Penguins Groups Family 278

10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2015

Penguins are also bellweathers of climate change; dwellers of remote areas you’ve (probably) never heard of; creatures who have developed unique, innovative ways of adapting to the harsh environments where they breed and rear chicks and the water environments in which they feed and swim.

Penguins 192

Penguins New Zealand South Africa Albatross 192

10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2019

Species Accounts vary greatly in length, from nine pages for Undulated Antpitta to two pages for Alta Floresta Antpitta, length depending not only on how much we know about the bird but also Greeney’s tendency to thoroughly discuss, even argue, any kind of confusion in documentation, taxonomy, or research results.

Research 136

Research Eggs South America Costa Rica 136

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2021

In any case, if the song is to be believed, the proper gift for the first day of Christmas is a partridge – and the Red-legged Partridge featured on the label of the Portuguese wine Quinta do Vale da Perdiz Cistus Reserva Douro presents a decidedly more practical option for following this gift-giving tradition. Donna). ==. Donna). ==.

Birds 239

Birds Colombia Collecting Bald Eagle 239

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2015

To research this book, he traveled extensively to see as many woodpeckers as he could; this field experience was supplemented with museum research and consultations with other experts, plus a library of print material ranging from field guides to scientific papers. The taxonomy is tricky, as Gorman notes in the introduction.

Woodpeckers 236

Woodpeckers 2002 Europe Research 236

10,000 Birds

APRIL 3, 2023

Such programs are somewhat inefficient anyway – in one study , the breeding success of wild male pheasants was 2-5 times higher than for hand-reared and released ones while for females, hand-reared birds were 3 times as vulnerable to predation as the wild ones. Alas, it seems they were already gone from Tianmashan in March.

Birds 188

Birds Blackbirds Indonesia Bhutan 188

10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2018

Scientists were largely limited to studies birds in breeding colonies, at least those we knew about and that were accessible (and, if you think that’s a complete list, you haven’t read the news that came out this week about a new colony of Adélie penguins found in the Danger Islands, Antarctica). Technology to the rescue!

Albatross 114

Albatross Penguins Research Breeding 114

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

And Sandwich Tern is Sandwich Tern, Howell finding the DNA research for splitting it “weak.” It’s faster than committee work, more direct than bureaucracy, and it presents a clearer and more complete portrait of the range and value of the biodiversity of these countries. ” These are just some examples.

Costa Rica 205

Costa Rica Belize El Salvador Birds 205

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2022

campus gardens – the Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Centre, located 3 km east of the town of Turrialba. Young birds, at least in captivity, become mature after 5 years and start breeding after 6 or 7 years. Daniel the driver was way smarter, finding the only shadowy spot next to the D-Max.

Costa Rica 226

Costa Rica Nicaragua 2019 Farming 226

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2016

This is a very different book from what I expected, less of a handbook and more of a comprehensive identification text on 24 groups of birds, presented in words and photographs. Additional information is presented in boxes and with photographs. Light blue boxes give brief facts on breeding age, strategy and lifespan.

Birds 189

Birds Groups 2015 North America 189

10,000 Birds

APRIL 19, 2016

For example, years ago, Eiton Tchenrov postulated that the wild progenitor of the domestic dog, some subspecies or another of wolf, could benefit from overlapping its breeding territory with human hunters. Previous research has shown that wading bird nesting colonies could provide substantial food for alligators in the form of dropped chicks.

Alligators 113

Alligators Protection Leopards Birds 113

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2020

This is a delightful book, large (8-1/2 by 11 inches), filled with Sibley’s distinctive artwork and an organized potpourri of research-based stories about the science behind bird’s lives. This was a pleasant surprise if only because I’m so used to the more technical views presented in his field guides.

2020 263

2020 Birds Groups North America 263

10,000 Birds

MARCH 9, 2012

This year, that award was presented to Denver Holt , a Montana scientist and bird guide and thus, if I may be presumptuious, my homeboy. Holt founded the Owl Research Institute , an organization that focuses on long-term studies of a variety of species of owls, as well as their prey species and environments. Why Ninepipes?

Montana 158

Montana Owls Denver Barn Owls 158

10,000 Birds

JULY 17, 2012

You don’t really know a bird until you’ve studied it on its breeding grounds. Getting intimate with a species over the course of the breeding cycle is one of the more rewarding aspects of birding, and field research too. I present here an annotated collection of photos documenting the entry of new parrotlets into this world.

Eggs 268

Eggs Venezuela Porcupines 2008 268

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

As the Hooded Cranes know that I am a consultant, they sometimes ask me whether they should forage together with geese or preferably seek areas in which geese are not present. However, the authors call this a “new breeding tactic”, which seems to mix up the discovery of the tactic with the use of the tactic.

Birds 147

Birds Geese Fish Industry 147

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Of course, the paper ends with the usual thinly disguised request for more research grants: “This sharing behavior could indicate a high level of social awareness and prosociality that should be further investigated. At the moment, at least on Chongming island both species are present. Some delegates. The obligatory group photo.

Finland 147

Finland Birds 2016 McDonalds 147

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2012

A lovely looking and distinctive sounding bird (so they say, I sadly have not seen one…yet), the Kirtland’s Warbler can only be found during its breeding season in Jack Pine forests 5 to 20 years old in the northern Lower Peninsula of Michigan. The Kirtland’s Warbler is divided into three sections: The Past, The Present, The Future.

Michigan 222

Michigan Bahamas Endangered Species Research 222

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 27, 2013

During the rest of the year there are less of them, but they are usually present and seen further out to sea. They breed on offshore islands off the Western Australian coast and on the Great Barrier Reef in Queensland.

Australia 162

Australia Rescue Suffering Research 162

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Some uncountable species, like Mitred Parakeets , are in fact way more numerous than some of the countable species and they are clearly breeding in well-established populations. The population has been present for at least 15 years. I suspect that way more research and documentation is conducted on indigenous bird species.

Miami 131

Miami Parrots Research Birds 131

10,000 Birds

APRIL 12, 2017

I had made the trip to this area to continue my research data and photo collection on the Acorn Woodpeckers , but the balance of my day turned out to be pretty amazing. The usual suspects were all present, including the Turkey Vulture, Red-tailed Hawk, American Kestrel , and Cactus Wren.

Woodpeckers 100

Woodpeckers Camels Mexico Turkey 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

From there, we learn of the effects of season creep on Great Tits and winter moth caterpillars in the Netherlands, the increasing gap between male and female migration dates in Africa-wintering Barn Swallows and the lengthening migration of Barred Warblers as their breeding grounds shift north.

Netherlands 158

Netherlands Birds Buffalo Science 158

10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2018

The many images of gulls presented by this field guide with their detailed captions are the best reasons to purchase and use this book. They also present a challenge to those of us who, well, are not in love with gulls. So many species that change eye color or leg color as they age. Not to mention the hybrids.

2004 143

2004 North America America Europe 143

10,000 Birds

MAY 17, 2015

The mystery bird looked something like a male Blackpoll Warbler in alternate (breeding) plumage, but it was yellow and black instead of black and white. ” Upon close review of my photographs and some additional research, that theory makes sense to me.

Minnesota 179

Minnesota New York City New York Baltimore 179