10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2012

Photo Essay: Green-rumped Parrotlets from Egg to Adult Wednesday, 18 July An unusual auk baby. Baby Spotted Dikkop Thursday, 19 July Killdeer from Egg to Adult Common Tern Chicks Walk to the Water The Moby Dick of Albatross Friday, 20 July A Bird in the Hand: American Kestrels Why Not Brood Parasites?

Costa Rica 164

Costa Rica Birds North America Albatross 164

10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2019

With so much to look at, you wouldn’t think my eyes would be drawn to a pine cone nest on the ground, complete with a Canada Goose parent shielding her delicate eggs from the nearby antelope species. Multiple varieties of ungulates jogged from place to place, while giant rhea birds stalked around looking for food.

Geese 113

Geese Zoos Canada Rhinos 113

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

They may be about bird eggs ( The Most Perfect Thing: The Inside (and Outside) of a Bird’s Egg , 2016), or a 17th-century ornithologist ( Virtuoso by Nature: The Scientific Worlds of Francis Willughby, 2016), or How Bullfinches learn songs from humans ( The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology.

Dissection 212

Dissection Birds Research Europe 212

10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2011

Whatever content can be used is absorbed from within the digestive tract into the blood in the form of molecules. Whatever food content cannot be used is thrown out through defecation. Or picture yourself as a bird fetus within an egg. Drinking and peeing through the egg shell? Not a sustainable concept of development.

Mammals 238

Mammals Birds Eggs Fish 238

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 8, 2015

Analyses of stomach content of dead pelicans during a die-off found that their digestive tracts were either empty or contained fish the pelicans don’t normally eat. Some pesticides killed pelicans directly, while DDT contamination led to thin-shelled eggs that broke under the weight of the parents.

Pelicans 157

Pelicans North America Peru Fish 157

4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 15, 2012

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Chickens 100

Chickens Dogs Pets Seals 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

The views are often distant and the flash of red in the sunshine is often the first observation you have and you have to be content with observing from a distance. The female is polyandrous and can defend a large territory laying several clutches of eggs (usually four) in nests built by male birds.

Australia 162

Australia 2011 Eggs Species 162

10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2014

Okay, they weren’t as fascinating as the birds of prey eating their, or the frankly still weird drawings of nightjars carrying eggs and woodcocks carrying chicks, but still, hornbills were cool because they sealed their mates up in holes in trees and then fed them as they raised the chick.

Singapore 169

Singapore Uganda Malaysia Seals 169

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 29, 2015

The analysis of Python stomach contents indicates that they eat mammals, as small as mice, and as large as a fully grown deer. Some of these snakes had evidence of birds in their stomachs and some were gravid with up 55 eggs nearly ready to be laid. The impact that pythons are having on native wildlife is not well understood.

Pythons 179

Pythons Florida Mammals Reptiles 179

10,000 Birds

JULY 23, 2014

They usually lay two eggs per clutch and most often, successive clutches will be laid while adults are still attending fledglings! To access the entire week’s worth of content just click here. Like most dove species, Eurasian Collared-Doves are prolific breeders. In warm climates they can breed year round.

Breeders 177

Breeders 2002 North America Bahamas 177

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2021

Who is responsible for the intellectual content of the Audubon guide? Plate 28 from Audubon Bird Guide, Eastern Land Birds, by Richard H. Pough “with illustrations in color of every species” by Don Eckelberry, Doubleday, 1946. Even the National Geographic guides, which originally did not list authors, eventually placed Jon L.

North America 278

North America America Birds California Condor 278

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2013

Other hardy souls signed up for an early morning “Ostrich Run” 5k, with the prizes beinging–you guessed it–actual ostrich eggs. Emptied of their contents, of course.). A few days later, I was the assistant (a glorified gofer , if you will) for a morning-long session on migration.

San Diego 173

San Diego Ostriches Chicago Colorado 173

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2015

He’s also worked with the National Wildlife Refuge System, co-led birding tours to Alaska, and co-authored A Guide to the Nests, Eggs, and Nestlings of North American Birds (1997). I love feeding my birds, and there will be days when I’m content with that. Margaret A. The writers have created a good book.

America 224

America Industry Squirrels Birds 224

10,000 Birds

JULY 25, 2014

Thirteen different insects have been introduced into Montana in their turn as biological controls for knapweeds, from weevils that attack the roots to flies that lay eggs in the seed-heads. To access the entire week’s worth of content just click here. And yet it persists. Conservation Invasive Species Week Montana Plants'

Montana 164

Montana Goats Sheep Species 164

Animal Person

MAY 26, 2009

Emphasizing user-generated content, the site invites home cooks to exchange recipes, share photos, participate in contests and post messages. But a recipe using applesauce and flax rather than eggs and butter, with a fabulous photo, might catch his or her eye.

Vegan 100

Vegan Cooking Campaign Ethics 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2019

This means that if you are looking for a specific species, you need to consult the Introduction, or the Table of Contents (also in taxonomic sequence but scannable since it’s all on one page), or the Index of Bird Names, where Species Account pages are set in bold print. What is in the Species Accounts?

North America 143

North America Sparrows America United States 143

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 2, 2014

This section is misnamed in the Table of Contents, which was apparently not edited to reflect changes in the third edition.) Browsing this field guide is a visual pleasure. But, I couldn’t help wonder why there is such a range of illustration.

Brunei 173

Brunei Birds Asia China 173

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2013

The Foreword, by writer and Pennsylvania birder Scott Weidensaul, nicely summarizes the book’s contents and brings a little local history into the historic framework, with the story of Pennsylvania’s very first bird census by Alexander Wilson in 1811.

Pennsylvania 222

Pennsylvania Breeding Birds Sparrows 222

10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2014

Using ministerial connections he obtained 100 mallard eggs from the US and began to breed and distribute them. To access the entire week’s worth of content just click here. Female Mallard, photo by Corey. There the matter may have remained, but for a gentleman named Cecil Whitney.

Species 165

Species New Zealand Ducks Game 165

Animal Person

AUGUST 16, 2011

Most interesting for me was the mental lock most people have that we vegans are always looking to break or find the key to: Why do good people who understand what happens to animals for unnecessary products such as “steak” or eggs, continue to consume such things? The answer, throughout the entire 300 pages, essentially is: Because they do.

Vegan 100

Vegan Morals Animal Rights Advocacy 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

From Hiro, we learn how Northern Pygmy Owls are “rule breakers,” not incubating eggs till all are hatched and then raising owlets that mature at the same rate even though the eggs were laid asynchronously (as most owl eggs are).

Owls 203

Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 203

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Birders are always happy to see a turtle or tortoise, and there are times of the year when my social media feeds are sprinkled with photos of turtles beings removed from roads or crawling to land to lay eggs. The back-of-the-book material gets more detailed treatment in the table of contents than the core of the book!

Turtles 191

Turtles Tortoises Family Terrapins 191

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Often, as I have been investigating the contents of a nest by making a small hole in the side, the parent birds have come right to the nest, where they immediately begin to repair the damage even before my departure!”. Even during the breeding season the birds appear to be quite unwary of humans.

Trinidad 190

Trinidad Birds South America Research 190

10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2012

Excuse the sudden and random departure from the typical self-aggrandizing and narcissistic ornithophilic content. Rats had previously preyed on eggs and young of practically every defenseless seabird on the island, and had taken to even attacking adult albatross as they sat on their nests. That will return next month.

Animal Rights Movement 204

Animal Rights Movement Animal Rights Rights Wildlife 204

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

It is probably true that there is a near 100% overlap in the rodents and other small terrestrial animals, as well as ground bird eggs, eaten by Coyotes and feral Cats. To access the entire week’s worth of content just click here. To some extent, the Cat problem will take care of itself, in some places. Plus, Coyotes eat Cats.

Feral Cats 253

Feral Cats North America Feral Cats 253

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2021

This may have been partly a leftover from the Victorian fascination with egg collecting (the infamous passion known as oology), but probably more from people’s burgeoning interest in the nests and eggs found in their gardens and fields, gateway artifacts to a newer hobby called birdwatching. The Harrison guides are out of print.

Eggs 222

Eggs Birds United States Sparrows 222

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Tall grass, grass in burnt areas, leaves stems, small mammals, large mammals, invertebrates, birds, bird eggs, even hyena feces (that’s the Leopard Tortoise). They are typically narrow in content, written more for the general tourist than for the birder or naturalist. Such a great variety of food!

Rhinos 235

Rhinos Mammals Animal White Rhinos 235

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

What is amazing is that each of these three books is very different in content and tone. How many eggs did a pigeon lay? We have photographs and newspaper obituaries of Martha, the last living Passenger Pigeon, who died after a lifetime in captivity, mostly in the Cincinnati Zoo. We have a lot of source material.

2014 159

2014 Killing Michigan Kentucky 159

10,000 Birds

MAY 24, 2018

Yes, some gruesome graphic content follows, but don’t blame me, you have been warned. One large banyan fig as well as all bushes around were completely covered with flies and their eggs – every inch. What was the weirdest place you ever birded? Some smelly sewage ponds? Oh, don’t bother responding. A war zone? Oh, that cover photo?

India 126

India Stray Dog Cows Rats 126

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Its organization and content is unorthodox in several ways, which I think is exciting; new approaches to field guides give birders opportunities to rethink how we identify birds and a good excuse to buy yet another field guide. Some offer nest information, egg information, breeding timeline, in flight views, etc.

Australia 106

Australia Birds Penguins 2015 106

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 7, 2023

Indeed, most cuckoo eggs are accepted by the babax ( source ), although a small proportion of hosts reject cuckoo eggs and often boast about this capability when having a few too many drinks. Some Chinese Babax waste part of their lives feeding chicks of Large Hawk Cuckoos, which parasitize the babax species.

Hamburgers 201

Hamburgers Birds Science China 201

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2013

The where and how of egg laying and larva emergence is briefly treated, with page references to larval drawings at the back of the book. Life cycles of odonata are described with a minimum of scientific language, accompanied by photographs illustrating stages–egg laying, larva, emergence, aging, mating, dispersal.

Ireland 169

Ireland France Breeding Eggs 169

Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 29, 2006

According to Dr. Spock: Most families have become more conscious about the fat content of meats, and many are choosing the lower-fat cuts. Benjamin Spock no longer recommends feeding animal products to children after two years of age. My emphasis] There are other reasons why families are looking more favorably at plant-based choices.

Animal 40

Animal Meat Cows District of Columbia 40

10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2019

There are photos of parent birds on the nest, baby birds in the nest, and the nest without parent, holding a clutch of blue eggs. They are, of course, of antpittas building or incubating eggs on a nest. In the few cases where Greeney was unable to procure a photo, like Gray-naped Antpitta, he uses a photo of a museum specimen.

Research 137

Research Eggs South America Costa Rica 137

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 29, 2024

Generally, the HBW entry on this species is not very informative – mostly the usual boilerplate statements regarding future updates: “ Editor’s Note: This article requires further editing work to merge existing content into the appropriate Subspecies sections. Please bear with us while this update takes place.”

Squirrels 136

Squirrels Birds China Bears 136

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

But, if, let’s say, I want to go from the Redhead Visual Species Account to the Redhead Written Species Account, I need to check the Table of Contents or the Index, a two-step process. Henderson, 2015, Texas A&M University Press) and Nests, Eggs, and Nestlings of North American Birds: Second Edition (co-authored with Colin J.

Ducks 115

Ducks North America Geese Hunters 115