10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2011

Now a Senior Leader with WINGS, Rick was a department editor at Birding from 2004 to 2008, editor of Winging It from 2005 to 2007 and currently writes Aimophila Adventures. Tags: etymology , names , Terminology , words • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more!

2011 140

2011 Tucson Arizona Deer 140

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2011

And, as a bonus, your spouse/partner will probably want to go birding with you more often… Tags: Portugal , Worldwide Birding Adventures • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! These Blasts From The Past Sometimes you just have to smile!

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Portugal 2011 Deer Birds 169

10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 2011

From 2004-2007 James worked as the Managing Director of Africa Foundation, a non-profit organization that directs its efforts towards the uplifting of communities surrounding wildlife areas in Africa. Tags: Dominican Republic , Worldwide Birding Adventures • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more!

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Dominican Republic 2011 Birds Deer 180

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Taxonomic tweakings and reshufflings of birds on the Family and Genus levels are too many to count. Yellow-billed Magpie populations took a big hit when the West Nile Virus reached California’s Central Valley in 2004. Whereas checklists used to start with loons, they now begin with waterfowl. This is a very, very good thing.

San Diego 168

San Diego California Condor California Bald Eagle 168

Animal Person

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

And I received confirmation of something I've known since 2004, when we adopted retired racing greyhound, Violet Rays: That there's sort of a critical period for dog-behavior acquisition, and if it's missed, the dog isn't likely to mature into the type of loving being whose behavior we've come to associate with "pet" dogs.

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Dogs Pit Bulls Greyhounds Kennels 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2022

Wrynecks are fascinating because they are woodpeckers, taxonomically and evolutionarily, yet they do not share many behaviors and anatomical features of most members of the Picidae family. But they are woodpeckers: the genus Jynx of the subfamily Jynginae of the Picidae family. They are beautiful, but in a different way.

Woodpeckers 224

Woodpeckers Hungary Thailand 2014 224

Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

Beloved family pet Dalmatian, Pepper, is stolen, and after several weeks of searching is discovered to have been experimented on at a hospital and died on the table when researchers tried to implant her with an experimental cardiac pacemaker. Scientists mapped out the entire mouse genome in 2002 and the rat genome in 2004.)

Animal Welfare 100

Animal Welfare Monkeys Animal Welfare Act Vivisection 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2011

Nice. ((** all names have been changed to protect identities and have been substituted with (almost) randomly chosen substitutes suitable for a family of Alpine Accentors.)) small families putting less pressure on the adult members of the family). In this case, they would be exhibiting polyandry.

2011 203

2011 Breeders Breeding Deer 203

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2011

Veraguan Mango by Carlos Bethancourt Although the Neotropical region supports fewer bird families than Africa, there are considerably more bird species here than anywhere else on earth. This means that there are some astoundingly large families of birds in Central and South America.

Panama 199

Panama Costa Rica 2011 Cleveland 199

10,000 Birds

JULY 17, 2016

To get an idea of the area you can look at images from 2004 on Google Earth, because it would appear the satellites don’t go over that area too often! Arriving at Bilyuin Pool the first time in May we were soon greeted by a family of Australian Magpies keen to see if we were prepared to hand over anything-NO!

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Parrots Ducks Australia 2004 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2022

But, I don’t think there is a bird identification guide around, on warblers or any other bird family, that has invented its own analytic system. I think the Stokes Field Guide to Warblers (2004) and Chris G. Donald Kroodsma employs them in his books about bird song; the Cornell University Lab of Ornithology promotes them.

United States 204

United States North America Species 2013 204

10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2013

But, I don’t think there is a bird identification guide around, on warblers or any other bird family, that has invented its own analytic system. I think the Stokes Field Guide to Warblers (2004) and Chris G. I’ve tried to learn the system, it’s not easy. But, I think you would enjoy having this book too.

United States 230

United States North America Species New York 230

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. Although Harrison did all the artwork for the 1983 title, he enlisted artist Hans Larsson for terns, gulls, and skimmers–the Laridae family.

Albatross 278

Albatross Penguins Groups Family 278

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2011

This evergreen post, first written in 2004, has become a 10,000 Birds staple. On the first day of Christmas my true love sent to me: A Partridge in a Pear Tree The partridge, a member of the pheasant family, has been a traditional game bird in England for centuries. (All respectable publications should have their holiday traditions.

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Turtles 2004 United Kingdom Geese 279

10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2018

Gulls of the World: A Photographic Field Guide is a successor, or companion, as the author terms it, to Klaus Malling Olsen’s classic guide, Gulls of Europe, Asia and North America (Helm, 2004*). I suppose this works with such a small family, but it made my librarian brain ache just a little bit. Browsing through this book is tough.

2004 142

2004 North America America Europe 142

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2015

Picidae, Woodpecker, is one of those charismatic bird families that everybody gets excited about. Woodpeckers of the World: A Photographic Guide is the first major guide to family Picidae in 20 years. Unless the woodpecker is drumming a hole into your garage, and then, well, it’s a different kind of excitement.)

Woodpeckers 234

Woodpeckers 2002 Europe Research 234

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 28, 2015

My Best Bird of the Year isn’t that spectacular … just my lifer Violet-chinned Hummingbird at my husband’s family’s house in CO. Well, I waited until nearly the last minute but on 27 December while hiking with my family and in-laws in Zion National Park I spotted a round brown ball across the Virgin River from us.

2015 180

2015 Costa Rica Birds Sparrows 180

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2018

Can the whole family live together in harmony during the school holidays? Is it wrong of me to go birding to get away from the kids now that they are at home all day? August is the make or break month for relationships. Bravo if you have. Happy birding if you suddenly find yourself single. 458 birds were seen by 7 beats in 8 countries.

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2018 Australia Woodpeckers Los Angeles 100