2011 Eggs Family Research 
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 24, 2016
I felt like I needed to do some research into why this change occurred. David J Ringer , on January 11th, 2011 wrote a story called Moorhen Mania: Splitting and renaming of the Common Moorhen. These birds have been known to be prolific breeders, with as many as 8 broods a year, and each clutch holding from 5-13 eggs.
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 am particularly happy to see that the bird communication section includes recent research on singing female birds. Plate 28 from Audubon Bird Guide, Eastern Land Birds, by Richard H.
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 4, 2015
in 2011*) came about. Barker, and Carroll Henderson is a well-researched, copiously illustrated, engaging study of bird feeding practices, personalities, inventions marketing, and companies that developed in the United States from the late 19th century to the present day, with a little bit of Canada, Europe, and South America thrown in.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 5, 2013
A little bit of research when I got home unraveled the ways of publishers here and in Great Britain. The second edition, with the slightly different title Birds of Trinidad & Tobago , was published in London in 2011. It is organized taxonomically, with families identified by first scientific and then popular name.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 6, 2012
Or, Pygmy leaf-folding frogs, Afrixalus brachycnemis, from Tanzania, tiny climbing frogs who lay their eggs in leaves and then fold the leaves over them for protection, sealing the nest with secretions. There is a large family of frogs, Bufonidae, that includes most of the warty, hoppy creatures we think of as toads.
10,000 Birds
JULY 1, 2014
Here are three excellent but very different children’s books I enjoyed this year (two were published in 2013, one in 2011). They cut down the trees the parrots used for nesting and brought black rats, who ate their eggs, and honeybees who swarmed into their nests, and by 1937 there were only about 2,000 Puerto Rican Parrots left.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 7, 2022
Wrynecks are fascinating because they are woodpeckers, taxonomically and evolutionarily, yet they do not share many behaviors and anatomical features of most members of the Picidae family. But they are woodpeckers: the genus Jynx of the subfamily Jynginae of the Picidae family. They are beautiful, but in a different way.
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