10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

But I have been sick with different kinds and forms of cold since the beginning of December with no interruption, and so has my entire family. The first detection outside Africa occurred in Vienna/Austria between 2001 and 2006. Okay, I meant to write an entertaining post. I honestly did.

Germany 160

Germany Blackbirds 2006 Denmark 160

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

Not, as Linneaus thought, an ostrich, nor even, as later scientists concluded, a distant cousin of pigeons deserving of family rank, it was an honest-to-goodness pigeon, deeply embedded within the family Columbidae. The Dodo ( Raphus cucullatus ) — that towering icon of modern anthropogenic extinctions — was a pigeon.

Solomon Islands 275

Solomon Islands Guinea Mauritius Humane 275

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2018

And, then there is a Hybrid Gulls chapter, covering five well-documented hybrids. But, I think the birding world is big enough to accommodate more than one way to identify the members of this infamous family. A larophile is a gull enthusiast, taken from the genus name Larus and/or the family name Laridae.

North America 199

North America America El Salvador Nicaragua 199

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 241

Woodpeckers 2002 Europe Research 241