10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 1, 2021
It seems the bird I saw is a first-winter one, at least according to the HBW description: “First-winter has head white apart from dark brown mottling on crown and nape; upperwing-coverts extensively marked brown; black subterminal tail-band; dark bare parts.” It is beautiful, too.
10,000 Birds
JULY 29, 2017
Spilornis cheela , can be found right across tropical Asia, preferring forested habitats. It is an easy bird to identify in flight with its broad white bands along the underside of the wings and tail. This individual was calling to its mate who was perched above a nearby stream. The mate did not look impressed.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 20, 2011
Gaily color-banded, I’ve no doubt each individual is well-known to science. Armed only with a cellphone camera, she walked right into the flock to take a photo, putting a big flock of skimmers up into the air. Get a load of the mandible on the granddaddy skimmer to the far right. But here you go.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 2, 2012
This may be the most awesome pelagic you’ll ever experience… For me it was the publication in 1984 of Peter Harrison’s ground-breaking identification guide to ‘ Seabirds ’ that opened up the off-shore world of pelagic birding right on Cape Town’s door step.
10,000 Birds
JULY 1, 2014
In the lower right-hand corner we see the partial figure of a bespectacled hiker. This plate is right at the center of the book. Roth depicts a brown, tail-banded, evil-eyed hawk with an open-eyed parrot held upside-down, wings spread, in its claws). In 1967 only 24 parrots were living in El Yunque.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 4, 2014
Each bird illustration consists of two parts–the image itself on the right-hand page full-page size with a wide white border, and the text on the left-hand page, a brief description of the bird in Harper’s distinctive voice. Each section, with one exception, offers images and text of ten birds; Vanishing Birds contains eleven.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 2, 2012
It’s 90% Broad-wings, paddle-shaped with crisp tail bands, but there are a handful of Sharp-shinned Hawks mixed in too, looking for all the world like the flying gavels described in every hawk-watching tome. Eventually these specks below the horizon coalesce into funnels of birds above the horizon.
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