10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Lees and Gilroy delineate vagrancy status and trends for every bird family worldwide, highlighting examples, synthesizing research, and framing it all with their own thoughts and conclusions. It’s a unique title; twitchers and naturalists interested in migration will find it fascinating reading and valuable for future reference.

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Sri Lanka Malaysia Birds Suriname 241

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Pairs roost together; juveniles roost with parents, and collectives of several flocks roost together. What a nice, close knit family! They sure are cute when you see a group of them fluttering around. Two articles report more than 150 individuals roosting in one tree 1.

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North America America Collecting California 166

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2020

In fact, if I remember correctly, it was 2013 when I first noticed (from an office window) a huge collection of sticks at the crown of a large immortelle tree. This extremely vocal member of the vireo family utters its rich warble incessantly from sun-up to sun-down but it rarely makes itself visible.

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Trinidad Battery Industry Bats 233

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

While New Zealand is famous for its endemic oddities, once upon a time New Zealand also had many birds from groups and families that are no longer found here. More curious was the owlet-nightjar, an already obscure group to begin with, but made all the more astonishing by virtue of its flightless and ground living lifestyle.

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Eagles New Zealand Bald Eagle Collecting 102

10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2013

We had last experienced this cheerful family of birds in Katherine in the Northern Territory over 13 years ago, so although the population is isolated there they had the same characteristics. They roam in family groups varying from eight birds upwards and have a certain confidence about themselves as they strut around the bush.

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Investigation Australia Family Collecting 166

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Few if any species are as emblematic of the Neotropics as Ramphastidae, the family that includes the toucans, toucanets, and aracaris. Collared Aracaris are weird for toucans in that they often travel in groups unlike other toucan species which are in general likely to be seen in ones or twos. You won’t regret it!

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Costa Rica Horses Farming Collecting 240

10,000 Birds

MARCH 10, 2021

You truly cannot experience the Gray-barred Wren without hearing the raucous calls shared among group members of this highly-social species. It is not that close of a relative of the Northern Mockingbird , being in the same family, but a different genus. That is because it is, well, a Mockingbird.

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Trinidad Emotional Transported Mexico 191

10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2012

The Edwards’s Pheasant is a rather smart blue-black member of the pheasant family and it may be on the edge of extinction. Edward’s Pheasant courtesy & copyright Tom Friedel This is an acute concern for the World Pheasant Association (WPA), whose mission is to safeguard all the 286 species in the pheasant group.

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Vietnam 2000 Germany Groups 156

10,000 Birds

MAY 6, 2016

Once you eliminate the risque jokes (I know, I know, but it’s a family blog) the Northern Beardless-Tyrannulet might have the most comical name in American birding. The tyrant flycatchers, in turn, derive their name from the first member of the family to land a Latin name, the Eastern Kingbird. Please do not yell at me.

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Costa Rica 2014 Family Collecting 103

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2021

The photographs are from VIREO, the ornithological image collection associated with the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, which licenses bird photographs to many guides and reference books. Color-coded page headings denote bird groups, matched by color-coded bird silhouette icons located midway down the edge of the page.

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North America America Birds California Condor 279

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

According to Reedman , murre is the old Cornish world for a Razorbill , and eventually became a vernacular term for alcids more broadly; murrelet, then, makes simple sense as a name for the smaller members of the family. Some murrelets are named for their styling.

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North America Science Collecting Fish 115

10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2021

The guide has been expertly, even lovingly revised, expanded and updated (as the authors’ names indicate, this is largely a family affair). As in the ornithological world, there has been a major shift in groupings and scientific names of mushrooms. These are much simpler, depending on the features on the specific group.

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North America America Species 2018 270

10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2018

There is the “The Moth,” a storytelling group popularized by The Moth Radio Hour. The group’s name is in honor of the moths attracted to porch lights in evenings gone by, when storytellers would sit and tell tales on these porches. But, there have been exceptions. Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Southeastern North America.

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North America America Oklahoma Missouri 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Striolated Bunting ( Emberiza srtriolata ) This member of the bunting family (that’s bunting, not sparrow. Sparrows are from the family Passeridae. According to the rather odd and quaint rules for collective terms for birds, groups of Striolated Buntings are called a whole bunch.) A whole bunch coming for a drink.

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United Arab Emirates Saudi Arabia Oman Yemen 161

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

In the mean time, a family group of Black-throated Magpie-Jays were frolicking in the breeze high over the dry valley, showing off their exorbitantly long tail streamers. I ran back to grab Andrew, and we were soon watching this large jay busily going about its routine of collecting food and flying off (presumably to a nearby nest).

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Mexico Costa Rica Arizona Birds 202

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2014

Earlier this afternoon my small family made a drive out to Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn. Three owls have already had the devices attached and some pretty interesting data is being collected. He brought with him Snow, his stuffed Snowy Owl , so Snow could see his “real owl friends.” ” Desi with Snow.

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Owls Research Science Collecting 219

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2014

It’s relatively easy to classify birds into family groups based on physical characteristics. We view them as our enemies when they eat our crops and as an extension of our family when we see them at our feeders. Remarkably, there are 59 bird families that have very little cultural significance; these are listed in Appendix III.

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Birds Egypt Family Eagles 224

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

Now, you collect the nine pieces of paper from the last generation of copiers. And beyond that, they found three retroposons shared only by parrots and passerines, providing, in their words, “statistically significant evidence of parrots as the living sister group of the Passeriformes.&# Ringer Suh et al.

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Parrots Falcons Indonesia Rodents 195

10,000 Birds

JULY 14, 2011

The following points stood out to me: “Metaves,&# a collection of disparate and puzzling birds recently grouped by the position of a few molecules in one nuclear gene, is probably not an actual clade. .’s landmark 2008 paper ) in the context of each other. Mayr names an assemblage of waterbirds Aequornithes.

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Madagascar Birds Louisiana Groups 164

10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2012

The famous Verreaux family who made several expeditions into the province through the 1820’s and 1830’s procuring specimens for rich collectors. Gurney’s Sugarbird was discovered by the Verreaux family and named after wealthy English banker and amateur naturalist John Gurney from Norwich. Image by Hugh Chittenden. Image by Adam Riley.

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Mozambique South Africa Africa Collecting 195

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2016

The English language, or at least the adherents thereof with more time on their hands than sense, has bestowed us a great number of names to collective nouns for groups of birds. This Saddleback is older and has mostly adult plumage, but still has small wattles. This adult still has some brown on the neck, but fully developed wattles.

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New Zealand Parrots Rats Bats 106

10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2015

The bulk of the book is devoted to heavily illustrated accounts of 35 groups of similar looking birds, offering instructions on how to differentiate species by size, structural features, behavior, plumage pattern and general coloration, habitat use, and vocalization. The result is a different kind of book.

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Birds New Jersey Science Groups 172

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

There were three profound questions my birding group discussed while we birded Trinidad and Tobago, back in December 2012: (1) How many Bananaquits could fit on a banana? (2) Do not buy these books, unless you are collecting old bird books. 2) Which hummingbird was more beautiful—Tufted Coquette or Ruby-topaz Hummingbird? (3)

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Trinidad Birds South America Research 205

10,000 Birds

MAY 12, 2013

Its mostly found on the ground in thickets or the edges of dense vegetation and usually in small family parties. Puffbacks belong to the bush-shrike family Malaconotidae and this group are called puffbacks due to several of the species forming a habit of puffing out their fluffy white back feathers during display.

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Africa Somalia Pelicans Mozambique 221

4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 24, 2011

“The humanitarian needs remain overwhelming but given the important role that companion animals play in the Japanese family and the important role that livestock plays in the Japanese economy, it’s important that we address the issues immediately,” said IFAW’s Disaster Manager Dr. Dick Green. will be channeled into Japan.

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IFAW Japan International Fund For Animal Welfare Livestock 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2019

Peterson Reference Guide to Sparrows of North America covers 61 species of the New World sparrow family Passerellidae that breed in Canada, the United States, and northern Mexico. The book does not include House Sparrow, an Old World sparrow that belongs to a completely different bird family. Scope of Book. Read the Introduction!

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North America Sparrows America United States 158

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 31, 2011

The purpose of the trip wasn’t specifically to look for birds, it was my flatmate’s birthday, and her family had booked two of the houses on the island so that we could enjoy a weekend break away to celebrate. At the same location it was possible to watch Spotted Shags collecting nesting material and try and get airborne.

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Penguins Parrots New Zealand Seals 165

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2015

Over a dozen distinctive ethnic groups exist here, many of whom live lives little touched by the modern world. It lies adjacent to Nechisar National Park, where the lone wing of the mysterious Nechisar Nightjar was collected in 1990. It also contains two massive national parks and several Important Bird Areas. Hamar mother and child.

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Ethiopia Sudan Leopards Birds 249

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 28, 2014

En route they will be “birding in nearly every country in mainland North and South America,” and, as they say on their excellent blog , “Our journey is about collecting valuable data on bird species, their status and distribution, current conservation issues, and more along the way.

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San Diego South America Costa Rica America 195

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Britain’s Birds is organized in a very loose taxonomic order, with priority given to grouping together birds that are perceived as similar. Browsing is facilitated by section titles at the top of each left-hand page and smaller group titles on the upper right-hand page. plus a chapter on “Vagrant landbirds from North America.”

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Ireland Birds Groups Falcons 151

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

I took a gamble and got the family out on a (socially-distanced) whale-watching boat on the 12th and was rewarded, finally, with my Queens Great Shearwater ! At the end of summer we took a family trip to Cape Cod and on the way home a Black-throated Gray Warbler was reported at Jamaica Bay on 4 September. And I predicted this one too!

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New York City Birds New York Blackbirds 153

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 26, 2021

A few years ago, in the American Birding Association FB group I posted a question: Where would you go if funds weren’t a problem? The rest of the 216 pages long book is devoted to various African bird families and half a dozen individual species. He has authored several other books and many articles, largely on natural history.

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Congo Africa South Africa Madagascar 264

10,000 Birds

MAY 21, 2013

Wilson’s Phalaropes did their crazy spinning thing, to our collective amusement. And as Carlsen pointed out, it’s also pretty easygoing; some hard-core birders were there, but many attendees appeared to be local people and families who wanted to learn more about their environment and the birds that enjoy it.

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Nevada Birds Barn Owls Cows 183

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Dolphin and whale photographic plates offer notes on fin and blowhole size and shape, with the text giving visual clues on what surfacing whales look like (a sperm whale “looks like a giant turd”) and how various dolphin species leap and group together. Pennsylvania is one of the most heavily birded states in the U.S.,

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Pennsylvania Texas Whales Whaling 176

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. It provides goals and a definite direction for your birding travels and thoughts; sometimes it even becomes the basis of a book!

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Costa Rica Brazil Ecuador Bolivia 264

10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2012

Furthermore we have another very special stork-like bird, the regal Shoebill , previously known as the Whale-headed Stork but now placed in its own family. They are often found roosting in small groups along the edges of lakes and riverine sandbars. It is also related to Wood Stork of the Americas and Milky Stork of Asia.

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Africa Tanzania South Africa Uganda 246

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

Hes only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasnt working as a union representative or spending time with his family. YourBirdOasis.com Mar 11th, 2011 at 11:00 pm Motmots are totally cool group of birds! Surfing for Birds at Pipeline Road The Doctor Bird.Or Nice post Corey!

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Nicaragua El Salvador 2011 Deer 194