10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2015

in 2011*) came about. Facebook and Flickr, with their bird photography groups for birders and photographers of all levels, have encouraged people to pay more attention to the birds they feed. The 2011 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation , p.36, million people in the U.S. Margaret A.

America 222

America Industry Squirrels Birds 222

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2021

Color-coded page headings denote bird groups, matched by color-coded bird silhouette icons located midway down the edge of the page. Press, 2011, cited as “RTP to Paul Brooks, March 6, 1945, Peterson Institute.” Plate 28 from Audubon Bird Guide, Eastern Land Birds, by Richard H. Dunlap, Oxford Univ.

North America 278

North America America Birds California Condor 278

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

When we eat eggs we eat chicken eggs almost exclusively. Other such local groups may disappear quickly, or only after a prolonged period of persistence. Americans love chicken. In 2008, over nine billion chickens were slaughtered for Americans to eat. Chicken soup and chicken wings are about as American as apple pie.

Chickens 192

Chickens Florida Feral Species 192

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.

Puerto Rico 227

Puerto Rico Parrots New York City 2013 227

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

There were three profound questions my birding group discussed while we birded Trinidad and Tobago, back in December 2012: (1) How many Bananaquits could fit on a banana? (2) The second edition, with the slightly different title Birds of Trinidad & Tobago , was published in London in 2011.

Trinidad 189

Trinidad Birds South America Research 189

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. But, within the frog group there is a tremendous range of diversity. Princeton University Press, 2011, 192 pp. 200 photos.

Reptiles 182

Reptiles Madagascar Family New York City 182

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 18, 2013

The diving, piscivorous grebes were usually grouped with loons. Long-legged, long-necked flamingos have over the years been grouped variously with storks, waterfowl, and the stilts and avocets. The groups do, contrary to van Tuinen et al.’s ” Some morphologists, notably Brad Livezey, Richard L. Zusi and Robert W.

2001 217

2001 2006 2010 Eggs 217

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

If you have any doubts whether you want to see a Snares Penguin, you can read the species description, directly following, and drink in photos of their bright, droopy yellow eyebrows, bulbous dark-red bills with bare pink skin at the base, and peek at a group of the penguins, walking en masse within the thick island scrub. Press, 2011).

Penguins 277

Penguins Georgia New Zealand Albatross 277

10,000 Birds

MARCH 9, 2011

home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Birds / Beautiful Blue Backyard Bird Beautiful Blue Backyard Bird By Jochen • March 10, 2011 • 9 comments Tweet Share There is a lot of whining associated with colours and Europe’s birds. Such a fun post.

2011 158

2011 Birds Deer Europe 158

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2011

This is also a hard question to address because most data on animal size distribution does not compare across classes of animals, and/or focuses on groups that would not be helpful. Or, we might expect to see them all be diurnal or nocturnal (as groups) but differentiate in body size. Accessed July 12, 2011 at [link] a.

Mammals 172

Mammals Rodents Birds Reptiles 172

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2021

This may have been partly a leftover from the Victorian fascination with egg collecting (the infamous passion known as oology), but probably more from people’s burgeoning interest in the nests and eggs found in their gardens and fields, gateway artifacts to a newer hobby called birdwatching. The Harrison guides are out of print.

Eggs 220

Eggs Birds United States Sparrows 220

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2012

Family and genus sections all begin with descriptions of what features the group has in common and how individuals differ. 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. Princeton University Press, 2011. By Dennis Paulson.

United States 225

United States Costa Rica Massachusetts North America 225

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2013

The where and how of egg laying and larva emergence is briefly treated, with page references to larval drawings at the back of the book. Life cycles of odonata are described with a minimum of scientific language, accompanied by photographs illustrating stages–egg laying, larva, emergence, aging, mating, dispersal.

Ireland 168

Ireland France Breeding Eggs 168

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

Foxes have also been known to take their eggs and there are now numerous local groups who endeavour to help the populations of Hooded Plovers along their local coastlines. In 2011 they appeared all over Australia in much larger numbers than previously experienced and these unknown populations are always a pleasant surprise.

Species 174

Species Australia Birds Parrots 174

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2015

He has authored Woodpeckers of Europe (2004), Birding in Eastern Europe (2006), a monograph on The Black Woodpecker (2011), and numerous popular and scholarly articles. I also enjoyed the breeding photo series, showing Downy Woodpecker eggs and then hatchlings within a breeding chamber in a tree, with only a few wood chips to support them.

Woodpeckers 234

Woodpeckers 2002 Europe Research 234

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Ducks are mostly grouped together by genus; Gadwall, American Wigeon, and Eurasian Wigeon, the Mareca species, follow each other, though Falcated Duck, the fourth Mareca species, is a bit further down, in a spread devoted to rarities. Swans are treated first, followed by geese and then dabbling ducks, diving ducks, and, finally, exotics.

Ducks 114

Ducks North America Geese Hunters 114