10,000 Birds
MAY 10, 2024
Unlike the Common Cuckoo, the young GSC doesn’t eject its foster parents’ eggs or chicks from the nest, but is reared alongside them. A Jay of the endemic Cypriot race glaszneri It was in the Botanical Gardens, too, that I watched Red-rumped Swallows collecting mud for their nests ( below ). Now that would have been a good bird to see.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 2, 2024
A lot of this material is in her earlier book, Condors in Canyon Country, published by the Grand Canyon Association in 2007, now out-of-print (though available used). They weren’t hard to find, but I would have appreciated, if publishing them in the book is too costly, a small collection on the publisher’s web site.
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 6, 2012
The team explored Nevada and Utah, with Ridgway collecting thousands of bird specimen, plus nests and eggs for the Smithsonian. Ridgway spent the rest of his career in the Castle, the Smithsonian building that then housed the National Museum’s bird collection.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 2, 2013
Data collection for the Second Breeding Bird Atlas Project of Pennsylvania took place from 2004 through 2009, roughly twenty years after the first official atlas project, 1983 through 1989. It was a gigantic, innovative project that collected and catalogued massive amounts of data about birds, habitat, and ecological change.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 5, 2013
The first, Field Guide to the Birds of Trinidad & Tobago, was published by Christopher Helm in London in 2007 and then published in the United States in 2008 by Yale University Press. Do not buy these books, unless you are collecting old bird books. There are two editions of the Kenefick book, the field guide.
10,000 Birds
MAY 3, 2012
Common and differing traits will include type of coloring, thorax patterning, how they perch or fly, how they copulate, and how they oviposit, lay eggs. This is an excellent landmark field guide that belongs in every naturalist’s collection. With odonates, there are always exceptions!
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 6, 2016
The Achiever’s survey voyages took place from 2005 to 2008; the goal was to collect baseline data on sea mammals and marine birds. Though the coast of British Columbia, a part of the Great Bear Rainforest, was rich in both, it was appallingly deficient in scientific data. And, this was badly needed.
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