10,000 Birds

MARCH 12, 2021

Besides the few warblers depicted in the mix of songbirds featured on Safe Flight IPA by the Kings County Brewers Collective we sampled in October 2019, I think this is only the second time we’ve seen a warbler here at Birds and Booze, a surprising situation given how popular this family is with North American birders.

New York 264

New York Boston 2019 Collecting 264

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 25, 2015

It also appears that at least one early radiation from North America into the Caribbean resulted in several relatively old island lineages, which the authors treat as four families, Nesospingidae, Spindalidae, Calyptophilidae, and Phaenicophilidae. The wood-warblers are coming into focus , and the sparrows are getting their own family.

Sparrows 263

Sparrows North America South America Blackbirds 263

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2024

for a sample of more than 800 species ( source ). When Reed Parrotbill s go on family outings, they usually just climb up reeds. This is what they do most days anyway, so many parrotbills now feel that these family outings are basically very pointless. Obviously, there is no reason to complain about this.

Birds 204

Birds Research Science Europe 204

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 23, 2023

At vulture family gatherings, it is always a bit of a bother for the organizers to cater to the needs of the Palm Nut Vulture. Then, in 2018, other researchers did DNA testing on the sample specimen and found it was just an ordinary Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird with some kind of slight color mutation ( source ).

South Africa 147

South Africa Africa Birds 2018 147

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

It covers 434 species across 9 orders and 18 families of birds. Other families are more complicated and these introductory sections are correspondingly longer and amazingly more detailed. There are many images and image notes on each plate, as you can see from the sample pages above. SCOPE & SPECIES ORGANIZATION.

Albatross 279

Albatross Penguins Family Groups 279

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2020

It’s the bird family that most people don’t know is a bird family. For many years it was thought the two bird families were related taxonomically. Like Antpittas and Gnateaters by Harold F. Introduction. Images of typical display poses are included for many of the birds of paradise.

Guinea 264

Guinea Birds Papua New Guinea Family 264

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

But my family moved to northern California when I was four years old, in 1962, effectively quadrupling my hummer list with the addition of the Anna’s , Rufous , and Allen’s Hummingbirds. I was born in Minnesota. This Dusky is Tierra-Caliente-only. And this is the Plain-capped Starthroat. Why would I?

Minnesota 131

Minnesota ALA Mexico California 131

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Family accounts for all 142 bird families recorded from the region. The maps can be seen here, among other sample pages: [link]. The family accounts is the only illustrated chapter and that sudden outburst of photos looks a bit strange compared to the rest of the book. Species accounts for all 2,792 bird species.

Africa 176

Africa Botswana Nigeria Namibia 176

10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2020

The researchers divided the city’s land area into seven categories: (1) open space for conservation ( e.g., forest preserves), (2) open space for recreation, (3) other open spaces ( e.g. , trails/greenways and cemeteries), (4) water, (5) single family residential, (6) multifamily residential, (7) roads, and (8) all others.

Chicago 284

Chicago Research Illinois Michigan 284

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

The species are taxonomically divided into two families: Tytonidae, Barn-Owls, and Strigidae, Owls, encompassed in one order, Strigiformes. When you look at Clements latest taxonomic spreadsheet, you get a sense of the depth of their relationships to each other and the world. This is a great summer read.

Owls 224

Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 224

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2011

Founded by Roberto Chavarro and his family in the early eighties, this little reserve has been dropped slap-bang into the birding spotlight by the recent claims of the rediscovery of the Bogota Sunangel Heliangelus zusii , a species that is known from one record – a skin from 1909! A new sylph species? Only time will tell.

Colombia 245

Colombia Family 2011 Species 245

4 The Love Of Animals

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

High Prairie Puppy and Pacific Stream Puppy are the newest additions to the Taste of the Wild family and were developed specifically to be more nutritionally beneficial for dogs under the age of 18 months. Taste of the Wild now offers their two most popular adult formulas in a puppy food.

Puppies 100

Puppies Dogs Pets Cats 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 26, 2013

and sample pages will give you a flavor of its design. Can you come up with an outline and a sample chapter based on that title?”. My first outline and sample chapter was rejected for being “too technical.” and the people who run it are almost like family. Are there really 1001 secrets in this book? (I

Rabbits 245

Rabbits Detroit Florida Minnesota 245

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2014

This research suggests that the boom isn’t due to an influx of newcomers, but rather because more local birds are flourishing and successfully rearing families. “At some level what we confirm is that the ecological consequences of an invasion such as that of the EAB are complex and difficult to predict,” study coauthor Walter D.

Woodpeckers 273

Woodpeckers Illinois Science Chicago 273

10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2022

For some reason, the largest member of the heron family is not called the Great Heron nor the Giant Heron but rather the Goliath Heron. The shrike family (Laniidae) has two genera, one (Lanius) with 32 species and one (Eurocephalus) with 2 species. Consistency is overrated. Sorry to disappoint you.

Birds 147

Birds Africa Eagles Barn Owls 147

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 12, 2011

The species is fairly widespread in the Western Pacific, ranging from New Zealand to Japan, and contrary to its name it isn’t actually a true snapper (family Lutjanidae), but is instead a member of the porgy and sea bream family (Sparidae).

New Zealand 158

New Zealand Goats Fish Protection 158

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Their taxonomic affinities have caused great confusion and debate amongst ornithologists; they were originally assigned to the thrush family, then Old World warblers before being shifted to babblers (the last mentioned a common dumping-ground for any aberrant passerines).

South Africa 234

South Africa Lesotho Africa Swaziland 234

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2016

Raptor migration : More like rapacious bonanza, even those of us who have witnessed the Neotropical River of Raptors nearly fell out of our shoes when treated to several thousand Steppe Buzzards and Black Kites flowing overhead along with a healthy sampling of eagles, harriers, and other birds of prey! VisitIsrael!

Costa Rica 181

Costa Rica Eagles Birds 181

10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2021

Marybeth learns as she birds, embraces listing goals as a means of engaging with community, unabashedly enjoys a little competition, struggles to balance her absolute joy in birding with unexpected, life-and-death family obligations. The book focuses on two listing events: her 2012 Louisiana Big Year and her 2016 Louisiana 300 Year.

Louisiana 264

Louisiana Species Mississippi Alabama 264

Reddit Animals

APRIL 1, 2024

few days later she getting spinal biopsies and bone marrow samples to see if she had cancer or leukaemia. When she arrived they had her hooked up to everything, cannulas in taking blood from one arm and needles in the other arm taking artery blood samples.a

Emotional 40

Emotional Killing Family Animal 40

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 9, 2011

Here is a sample of a chapter, “Ratites & Tinamous”, from the Birds in Order section. Or browse or sample if that be your reading style. Intriguing, isn’t it? General information, like an explanation of taxonomic structure, is juxtaposed next to the specific. by Princeton University Press.

Albatross 205

Albatross Birds Campaign Protection 205

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2020

According to Henderson, the robins were discerning customers, too, sampling each berry one nibble at a time, and in the end, choosing only the most delicious ones to devour completely: They were as painstaking at times as a connoisseur examining a work of art.

Farming 153

Farming New York St. Louis Belgium 153

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2020

I should add that the Big Owls taking over NYC social and even hard print media, dominating conversations with my nonbirder friends and family, are not the only owls in the five boroughs, but like a musical, the closer you are to Broadway, the closer you are to fame and fortune (and maybe even a higher quality rodent for dinner, who knows?).

New York City 198

New York City Birds Owls Fox 198

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

In many cases, our waterfowl, gulls, and shorebirds are the same as those overseas – or only slightly different – and there are many other corresponding species in nearly all the shared families. Better still, these wines lack the heftier price tags commanded by long aging – or the name recognition – of many other European wines.

2017 118

2017 Portugal Rabbits Europe 118

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

This outstanding member of the wattlebird family is unique among songbirds in having different shaped beaks for each of the sexes. We’ll also keep our eyes open for several members of the New Zealand wren family. The forests around Wellington will let us clean up any North Island endemics we may have missed. Laughing Owl.

New Zealand 211

New Zealand Ducks Australia Mountain Goats 211

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). Here’s a sample of Plate 30, Bat Falcon and Orange-Breasted Falcon (pp.

Mexico 174

Mexico America North America Falcons 174

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 2, 2014

Not a great place for a family vacation, though I think Duncan will disagree. Species Accounts are grouped by family, following what appears to be Sibley and Monroe’s 1996 taxonomy. (I The plates show differing plumages as required by the individual families and species. Artwork is by Karen Phillips.

Brunei 179

Brunei Birds Asia China 179

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2018

I sample birding on Poas more often than at other sites in Costa Rica because it’s close to home and makes for a worthwhile guided day trip from the San Jose area. Lot of wrens and thrushes : Quite a few members of these families also chatter and sing from thickets and forest. Brown Violetears can be common.

Costa Rica 100

Costa Rica Species San Jose Birds 100

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Considering this adherence to scientific accuracy, it is intriguing that the authors have put aside a taxonomic form of organization and have instead opted for “a pragmatic field guide sequence… that groups bird families according to the broad biomes in which they are most likely to be encountered—marine, freshwater and terrestrial…” (p.2).

Australia 109

Australia Birds Penguins 2015 109

10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2013

All of the walks are graded and well-marked and there are also some short walks suitable for families with strollers or requiring wheel-chair access. We much prefer to spend a bit more time exploring an area and a week was ideal to get a sample of what is on offer. Trips Australia New South Wales'

Birds 157

Birds Experience Experiments Ducks 157

10,000 Birds

JUNE 15, 2018

It’s also not a bad place for some incidental birding while sampling a flight of beers after touring the brewery, as evidenced by my checklist from a visit last summer. It’s also more modestly spiced than Hennepin, with lemon peel, coriander, and grains of paradise – a peppery seed in the ginger family often used in Belgian brewing.

Belgium 100

Belgium New York United States Skunks 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 28, 2014

There were opportunities to go to far flung places like the islands of the Pacific or the coast of Canada or the Yorkshire Dales… Anyway, as I was obsessed by Africa at the time, I leapt at the opportunity to go to Namibia to collect samples of bat DNA for a biogeography project. A Bat Hawk hunting bats.

Bats 155

Bats Birds Vanuatu Namibia 155

10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2012

Among the Efe (Pygmy) people that I lived with in the 1980s, the young men would in fact disappear from the bosom of their families and spend a lot of time, perhaps months, living on their own in the forest. you’d get to see the much larger samples of prepared specimens in the drawers. Or get your own.

Birds 171

Birds Collecting Rodents Wounded 171

10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2019

This photograph of a family working on feathers while the father looks on is from the National Child Labor Committee Photograph series taken by Lewis Hine. The Pankhursts and their organization were not interested in saving birds; they saw the SPB mission as a distraction. It is reproduced in “Mrs.

Industry 121

Industry Virginia Portland Campaign 121

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2016

My librarian self is partial to a more strict taxonomic organization, but with no hope that the constant shifting of families will end in the near future, this type of sequence is making more and more sense. The book’s organization reflects the authors’ goal of making this a guide accessible to birders of all levels and skill.

Ireland 150

Ireland Birds Groups Falcons 150

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

This is how, I think, the “Crossley technique” works best—coverage of specific bird families that pose identification challenges to birders at all levels of skill. Here’s a sample of how that section reads: “Ducks have 14-18 feathers (rectrices).

Ducks 124

Ducks North America Geese Hunters 124