10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 7, 2021
Each family section begins with a Group Account, an overall section giving the number of species in the family and nesting commonalities and differences. The organization varies, and there are sometimes more than one Group Accounts for a family. Sometimes there’s even more than text! This happens a lot in the shorebird sections.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 26, 2014
There are four generally recognized groups within the complex, “ Myrtle ” ( coronata ) of eastern and northern North America, “ Audubon’s ” ( auduboni ) of the western United States and western Canada, “ Black-fronted ” ( nigrifrons ) of Mexico, and “ Goldman’s ” ( goldmani ) of Guatemala.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 4, 2023
The second thing to note is that this is an excellent and courageous book that tackles a group of birds whose field identification has stumped the most skilled birders. The book expands field guide boundaries with its narrow focus on two genera (groups) with a bonus Tufted Flycatcher thrown in for good measure.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 9, 2020
For example, it wasn’t until this year that the Mallard, with its strongly differentiated males and females and semi-migratory habits, was definitively separated from the non-migratory Mexican Duck, in which males and females are almost identical. I continue to hope that history will someday repeat itself with the House Wren group.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 7, 2016
That study (which used data from 2011) claimed that there were 47 million “birders,” of which 41 million were stay-at-home “backyard birders” and 18 million were more active “away-from-home” birders who traveled at least a mile to see birds. Organizations : There is a group dedicated to birding, the American Birding Association.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 13, 2012
Bird watchers definitely pay, even if our economic contributions are patently ignored. As a discrete group (not considering population overlap), non-extractive wildlife watchers contribute more to the U.S. economy than either hunters or anglers: 2011 Fishing Expenditures: $41.8
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 30, 2015
All that said, checking out extraordinary records, which these are by definition, is pretty neat. These numbers are clearly very rough estimates and, as was pointed out on the discussion on the Facebook eBird discussion group page, 76 million would be over 60% of the known population of the species of Brown-headed Cowbird.
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