10,000 Birds
JUNE 6, 2021
If you’ve had an encounter with a wild animal – a bird stunned by hitting a window, a fox hit by a car, or a family of raccoons unexpectedly found residing in your attic – you know how hard it can be to find help. This is a valuable resource you can pass along to your friends and family, wherever they live.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 15, 2023
Now I can download them and process them. Fortunately, two species of Mergansers sometimes stray to Cuba, and so my friend suggested, correctly, that ours was a female Hooded Merganser. The addition of a family of Least Grebes was a nice touch. The first third of the trip, I couldn’t manage a passable photo. But which one?
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 6, 2014
So when we were contacted by Mitchell Waite, the creator and owner of the iBird family of apps, offering a promotional code for the new version of iBird Ultimate in return for a review I thought, why not? You can easily scroll through the 940 species of bird included, which covers the United States (including Hawaii) and Canada.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 15, 2018
After all, you don’t want to sink to spending time with family or doing chores, do you? My books overflow my bookshelves, are stacked haphazardly in several strategic locations, and cause my family to resent me. I’ve been doing this with the Dominican Republic recently when a planned family trip fell through.
10,000 Birds
MAY 2, 2011
Life, Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species. No surprise: there are about 10000 different species of birds in the world currently living. But how many families of birds are there?” No surprise: finding the number of bird families is no easy task. And counted each and every family.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 6, 2015
Here are some things I’ve learned from the Peterson Reference Guide to Owls of North America and the Caribbean by Scott Weidensaul: The Burrowing Owl is the only North American owl species where the male is larger than the female, albeit, only slightly larger. The 39 owls include five endemic Caribbean species.
10,000 Birds
JULY 4, 2017
The guide presents 69 species and 1 subspecies, from “NEW WORLD VULTURES: Cathartiformes” to “OSPREY: Pandioninae” to “FAMILY: Accipitridae” (Kites, Hawks, Eagles, Hawk-Eagles), to “FALONIDS: Falconidae” (Falcons, Forest-Falcons, Caracaras, Kestrels, Merlin). That’s a lot of visual information!
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