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.
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.
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 8, 2023
And Sandwich Tern is Sandwich Tern, Howell finding the DNA research for splitting it “weak.” Checklist for Belize lists 622 species in 76 families, of which 104 are rare or accidental and four introduced. This is particularly helpful for bird families that might be new to birders. For context, the IOC version 13.1
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.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 26, 2013
Over a decade from 1993 to 2004, conservationists released 289 captive-raised Whooping Cranes into Osceola, Lake and Polk counties in Central Florida. I have compiled the family trees of both birds below: Ancestry Chart of 1781, born in the wild in Central Florida. How far would I have to go back to find a wild ancestor?
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. More is known about some woodpecker species than others, and Gorman points out cases where additional research is particularly needed.
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. However, in this case, a bit of research paid off.
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