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) And, to make things even more confusing, why did Ian’s 2012 ffrench guide list the motmot under its old name, Blue-crowned Motmot? .

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Trinidad Birds South America Research 201

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

And Sandwich Tern is Sandwich Tern, Howell finding the DNA research for splitting it “weak.” The inside front covers are the start of four-page pictorial guides to bird families/groups and the pages where they can be found, a quick, easy entry to the identification process (see image above).

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Costa Rica Belize El Salvador Birds 222

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2015

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. Baicich, Margaret A.

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America Industry Birds Squirrels 235

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Many of these refuges and associated Conservation Areas, which have the potential to protect more than 1 million acres of vital wildlife habitat, have been forged through creative partnerships with sportsmen, conservation groups and private landowners. It would be a separate but parallel and symbiotic addition to Refuge budgets.

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Wildlife Hunters Ducks Hunting 207

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2013

During this study, all the pigeon predation was observed on one small island where the birds grouped to preen and drink. The research team reporting on these fish carried out a stable isotopic analysis to see what role Pigeons may play in the diet of these fish. Or, it could just be some weird thing one group of catfish do.

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Fish Birds Whales Whaling 207

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Try Bermuda Petrel, Pterodroma cahow , one of the group of seabirds called gadfly petrels. She has done an excellent job researching both the history of the cahow and of David Wingate, using historical primary sources for the first and interviews with Wingate’s colleagues, friends, and family for the second. Beacon Press, 2012.

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Birds Rats Breeding 2012 170

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Dolphin and whale photographic plates offer notes on fin and blowhole size and shape, with the text giving visual clues on what surfacing whales look like (a sperm whale “looks like a giant turd”) and how various dolphin species leap and group together. Howell; I can’t find them anywhere else on the Internet.

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Pennsylvania Texas Whales Whaling 172

10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2013

One very helpful feature are the “Identification Tips” offered for groups of birds. These light blue boxes paint an overall view of the group as a whole and articulate guidelines for differentiating species within the group. A “Quick Alphabetical Index” on the inside front cover offers quick entry to bird groups.

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Birds North America Groups Falcons 164

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2021

In 2012, I reviewed The Jewel Hunter , an absorbing narrative in which author Chris Goodie travelled throughout Asia, Africa, and Australasia to observe and photograph every Pitta species in the world. A passion for one bird family is also very useful. Like all talented travel writers, Dunn is adept at drawing us into his experiences.

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Costa Rica Brazil Ecuador Bolivia 264

10,000 Birds

MAY 11, 2021

For example, the panel (see below) included three members of the pro-change Bird Names for Birds group (more representation than the Cornell Lab of Ornithology , the National Audubon Society , and the U.S. Was there confusion that impacted data collection or research or birding? Is ornithology more inclusive? Did the process work?)

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Birds Russia Hawaii Woodpeckers 264

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Several years ago, I read about the enormous colonies of breeding birds in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands and I did some research to satisfy my curiosity. ( Google Scholar is an excellent resource and free full-text PDFs can be located for many papers, particularly when research is taxpayer-funded. and Antony W. 2011): 265-272.

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Transported 2011 Research 2012 113

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

’ So, we learn that the gulls in one grouping are all rare, and the gulls in another grouping are part of a “large, cosmopolitan group,” that must be identified through studying structure, upper-wing pattern, and head pattern. SPECIES ACCOUNTS–TEXT.

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America El Salvador Costa Rica Honduras 214

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Scientific names have been reviewed by the Working Group on Avian Nomenclature of the International Ornithologists’ Union. Within each group, birds in the same family are grouped together and birds in the same genus “usually occur consecutively.” So, there are two basic sections–marine and freshwater birds (pp.

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Australia Birds Penguins 2015 108

10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2016

It’s heavily illustrated with both drawings (72 Colour Plates, 920 drawings) and photographs (over 650), and employs extensive references to and from each section, which makes research relatively easy. This is the first bird guide I’ve reviewed that has utilized and credited a Flickr group, the Bird Hybirds Flickr Forum.

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North America Asia Europe America 156

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

For my new book, due out in 2012 from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, I’ve been researching sandhill crane hunting. A Great Backyard Bird Count Miracle Best Bird of the Weekend (Last of January 2011) What is the International Bird Rescue Research Center Anyway? Or These Blasts From The Past What’s In A Name?

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 251

10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2014

The authors set June/July 2011 as the cut-off date, and were able to add noteworthy records up to November 2012, the date the manuscript was sent to the publisher. New species that were documented from Fall 2011 through Summer 2012 are listed in one of the appendices. This can be confusing. What does it mean in the larger sense?

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North America America Birds United States 257

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

.” And, if you don’t believe them, just take a look at some of the photographic comparisons of species they present: Or, of albatross plumages: Or, read about the taxonomic confusions and scientific lapses in research on petrels, Albatrosses, storm-petrels, and diving-petrels.

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Albatross North America Birds Groups 163

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Given the complexity of the research, the result feels like a bit of a letdown – “northern populations start migration earlier than southern populations, especially in autumn” The species name of the Chestnut-eared Bunting is fucata , from the Latin “fucare”, to paint red.

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Birds Eggs Bangladesh China 215