10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

Brown Pelicans , and the northernmost Brown Booby breeding colony on this side of the Pacific. That larger clade is in turn sister to a clade containing the four remaining totipalmate bird families, which do still seem to be related, and which needed a new order name once pelicans were removed.

2011 159

2011 Pelicans Papua New Guinea Birds 159

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2021

Using the icons to locate specific bird families takes a little getting used to, but if you do it often it works well as a finding tool. I do wish that the ethics section included guidance on the use of playback and that all the sections included titles or websites for further reading. These are all informative and current.

North America 279

North America America Birds California Condor 279

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 6, 2015

Here are the basic contents for each state guide: a flexibound cover, the ABA Mission Statement and Code of Ethics (I like that this is the first thing you see when you start perusing the books), Foreward by Jeffrey A. During the last visit in 2011, I was fortunate to see all three Rosy-Finch species at Red Rocks Park.

Colorado 257

Colorado Florida Birds New Jersey 257

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. However they will not and cannot breed, and once these individual’s natural lifespans are over, these bird populations will be lost forever.

Ghana 209

Ghana Hunters Guinea Gambia 209