10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

It is worth pointing out that titmice belong to the family Paridae , an expansive international clan made up primarily of what we call “chickadees” in the states but are known as “t**s” in the Old World. This post was first published in September 2006 but has been republished because titmice are always in vogue! ).

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Arizona Oklahoma Texas Mexico 261

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2015

She is an excellent mother, managing not only to feed her four large cubs, but their visiting father One-eyed who comes by every now and then (he has two more families and being the good father he is, visits them all regularly, usually around lunch time). Tiger’s historic range in about 1850 (pale yellow) and in 2006 (in green).

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Tigers India Killing 2012 238

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

I happen to be particularly fond of turtles because my family has taken care of a small box turtle for 30 years (beware–turtles are extremely low-maintenance pets but will outlast your child’s youth and probably your life). Or that tortoises and terrapins are considered part of the turtle family. Lovich and Whit Gibbons.

Turtles 189

Turtles Tortoises Family Terrapins 189

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2015

We were able to take a thoroughly enjoyable boat ride on Lake Chamo, whose shores teem with birds, including such typical African species as African Fish Eagle, Goliath Heron the world’s largest, Yellow-billed Stork and the incomparable Hamerkop , a species in its own family. The future of these tribal cultures faces considerable uncertainty.

Ethiopia 235

Ethiopia Sudan Leopards Birds 235

10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2021

The guide has been expertly, even lovingly revised, expanded and updated (as the authors’ names indicate, this is largely a family affair). McKnight and Vera B. McKnight published in 1987. I will be reviewing the guide as a novice in the field of mushroom identification, asking if this is a guide that a beginner could use.

North America 246

North America America Species 2018 246

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

Best Bird of the Weekend (Second of August 2010) Commence Project FeederWatch 2006 Best Bird of the Weekend (Halloween Edition) Discerning Distant Ducks About the Author Corey Corey is a New Yorker who has lived most of his life upstate but has spent the last three years in Queens. Community conservation – valuing what’s around us.Or

Honduras 150

Honduras 2011 Deer Birds 150

10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2011

I first met Paul Guris, owner of See Life Paulagics , fittingly enough, on a pelagic trip out of Freeport, New York in February of 2006. I love South Park , Family Guy , and Robot Chicken , and if you know those shows then they should be more than enough explanation for that last sentence. First, I’d like to set the record straight.

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Birds Delaware Iceland 2006 169

10,000 Birds

JULY 1, 2014

A second flock is released into the wild in 2006. The first, The Mangrove Tree: Planting Trees to Feed Families , tells the story of Dr. Gordon Sato’s mangrove tree-planting project, which transformed the African village of Hargigo. A hawk-avoidance training program is created. The birds thrive. Roth and Cindy Trumbore.

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Puerto Rico Parrots New York City 2013 227

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

So, the Eastern Kingbird ”is one of the Tyrant Flycatchers, Tyrannidae –America’s largest bird family–365 different species.” And, unlike a field guide, Birds & Words is the kind of bird book you could give to a non-birding family member and still enjoy yourself, guilt-free.

Betty Crocker 170

Betty Crocker Birds 2008 2007 170

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2024

If you see a flock of kestrels in southern Europe, then the chances are that they will be Lessers, for the Common Kestrel never flocks, though occasionally in summer you will see a family hunting together. However, the Lesser Kestrel has received help. Finance came from national and regional governments.

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Falcons Spain Europe 2012 186

4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

Chimpanzees and elephants grieve the loss of family and friends, and gorillas hold wakes for the dead. In June 2006, Jane and I visited a chimpanzee sanctuary near Girona, Spain. Paul’s family noticed that whenever he was about to have an attack, Tinker would get agitated.

Emotional 100

Emotional Animal Whales Whaling 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 10, 2012

One of our watering points in the garden had a family of Black-chinned Honeyeaters at it. There were no sightings during 2006, but that means we did not see them and they may well have visited! On the first day of winter, June 1st, I had just seen Grant off to work and I had a lovely surprise.

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2012 2000 2006 2005 163

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 272

Solomon Islands Guinea Mauritius Humane 272

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 27, 2016

By the cliffs we find several Eurasian Crag-Martins and a consolation species – a family of Golden Eagles in the air! The next morning is for the Kerkini Lake, one of the youngest national parks of Greece, protected only ten years ago, in 2006 and inhabited by 11 amphibian, 27 reptilian, 44 mammal and 312 bird species.

Greece 248

Greece Woodpeckers Boars Eagles 248

10,000 Birds

MAY 11, 2013

For some reason the Fringillidae, as the finch family is called if you want to be highfalutin, frequently tend toward pink. I spotted my first Common Redpolls way back in February of 2006, when I had been birding for less than a year and was still living in Albany, New York. Not that I’m complaining!

Kazakhstan 152

Kazakhstan New York United States 2006 152

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2018

85), is described in five difference forms plus a note that there are also hybrid possibilities (this is very different from the description in Pete Dunne’s Essential Field Guide Companion (2006), where Dunne concludes that “there are only two plumages to deal with–immature and adult” (p.

North America 193

North America America El Salvador Nicaragua 193

4 The Love Of Animals

APRIL 20, 2012

This case has strongly fascinated the publicity, which led to publishing the book about this awkward family – Tiger-Pups. In 2006, in Yalta private zoo (Ukraine) two white lions were left without mother’s care. Elsa, the lioness, gave birth prematurely as she experienced a deep fear during the fire in Crimean natural preserve.

Badgers 100

Badgers Tigers Zoos Porcupines 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 30, 2013

We had a family picnic at Fort Tilden less than two weeks after my last set of predictions and a single Purple Martin was flying low over the fields with Barn Swallows and Tree Swallows. Cory’s Shearwater – 06 Oct 2013 – Going on a whale-watching trip with my family really paid off. Number 300 in Queens!

2012 158

2012 2013 New York City Jamaica 158

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

Of the Central Flyway states, Nebraska alone holds out in protecting the cranes, having proven by its longstanding Festival of the Cranes in Kearney that a crane is worth infinitely more alive and purring in the sky with its family than thudding, broken and bleeding, into a cornfield. 18 Responses to “Sandhill Crane Hunt in Kentucky?!

2011 239

2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 239

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

Letters from Eden (Houghton Mifflin, 2006) will soon be followed by a memoir about the birds she has raised, healed, studied and followed throughout her life. Tags: cranes , poaching , sandhill crane hunting , sandhill cranes , whooping cranes • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more!

2011 239

2011 Hunting Kentucky Hunters 239

10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2015

These strange birds are two species in their own family; White-necked or Yellow-headed, endemic to the Upper Guinea forests and Grey-necked or Red-headed, restricted to Lower Guinea forests. The timber industry-led assault on this resource is building towards ecological catastrophe.

Ghana 188

Ghana Hunters Guinea Gambia 188

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 8, 2017

My trips abroad were limited to short family vacations to the Cote d’Azur during the first days of January and a week-long vacation to northern Tuscany / Italy in May. You see, I had seen members of the formerly united species very frequently in recent years, e.g. in Kazakhstan and during my time in North America back in 2006/07.

2016 101

2016 Germany Italy Netherlands 101

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.)

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Woodpeckers 2002 Europe Research 234

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 31, 2021

As sad as I am to say it, I must: 2021 was one of my worst years for birding since I started looking at feathered creatures with intent in 2006. Doug found this bird while my whole family was sick with COVID. My total of two lifers for the entire year is easily the lowest number I have ever achieved. A first state record?

New York 250

New York Birds California Owls 250

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. Mystery images were one of the innovations of The Shorebird Guide (2006, co-authored by Crossley with Michael O’Brien and Kevin T.

Ducks 114

Ducks North America Geese Hunters 114

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.

2018 100

2018 Australia Woodpeckers Los Angeles 100