10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2015

I’m happy to say that Laura Erickson and Marie Read have written a book, Into the Nest: Intimate Views of the Courting, Parenting, and Family Lives of Familiar Birds , that is not too cute and that does not anthropomorphize. Part Two: The Family Live of Selected Species” describes and illustrates the family lives of 49 species in 25 chapters.

Eggs 263

Eggs Family 2006 New York 263

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2013

I wonder how many I’ll be able to add in 2013. A text message that let me know about a mega-rarity in New York ! New York State’s first Grace’s Warbler. Adding a new shorebird to my Queens list was a big plus as well! But how did I see so many species this year? Painted Bunting.

2012 144

2012 Czech Republic Hedgehogs Hungary 144

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Checklist for Belize lists 622 species in 76 families, of which 104 are rare or accidental and four introduced. Checklist lists 955 species in 86 families, with 152 rare/accidental species, three extirpated species, five introduced species, and nine endemics). For context, the IOC version 13.1

Costa Rica 222

Costa Rica Belize El Salvador Birds 222

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

In June of 2013 he embarked on a whirlwind tour of Europe, spotting birds in Iceland , Russia , Finland , and, as you’re about to find out, Sweden: We took a quick flight from Helsinki and arrived in Stockholm, Sweden, arriving at our fourth country on this trip. I was pleasantly surprised by what I found in the park that sunny day.

Sweden 167

Sweden Denmark Geese Birds 167

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). The first, The Mangrove Tree: Planting Trees to Feed Families , tells the story of Dr. Gordon Sato’s mangrove tree-planting project, which transformed the African village of Hargigo. Roth and Cindy Trumbore.

Puerto Rico 238

Puerto Rico Parrots New York City 2013 238

10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2015

The bird family accounts are wonderfully informative, especially if you are a birder (like me) who knows enough to know what family a bird belongs to, but still has trouble differentiating amongst specific species within the family. These chapters differ in length and content, depending on the number of species in each group.

Birds 171

Birds New Jersey Science Groups 171

4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Starting with Casey and Arrow, our keepers in the woods, our family would keep cats and dogs. We both feel that even though we’ve never met these dogs, they’re ours, too; an extension of our family, someone to keep Peter smiling. Michael Levin is a New York Times bestselling author. Growing up, we always had animals.

Dogs 100

Dogs Puppies Iraq Pets 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 28, 2014

A bill has been introduced by two senators that would outlaw this type of contest in New York, and I started to wonder if people who really are anti-hunting could jeopardize its potential success. Since no one was vilified by gun club defenders more than Friends of Animals , I called its New York director, Edita Birnkrant.

Killing 259

Killing Hunting Hunters New York 259

10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2017

Species Accounts are arranged taxonomically, grouped by family. Family sections start with a brief description of the characteristics shared by the species in the family, followed by a description of the sounds made by those species and how they obtain their song/call knowledge.

North America 175

North America America Birds New York 175

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 30, 2013

This Virginia’s Warbler was my most unexpected new bird in Queens. We had a family picnic at Fort Tilden less than two weeks after my last set of predictions and a single Purple Martin was flying low over the fields with Barn Swallows and Tree Swallows. The last of the regularly expected owls in Queens. Number 300 in Queens!

2012 158

2012 2013 New York City Jamaica 158

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2022

The taxonomy may have changed a bit since the guide was published in 2013, but the warblers are still the same, giving us extreme joy while driving us crazy as we try to identify them high in the canopy or zipping amongst lower branches. Princeton University Press, 2013. I’ve tried to learn the system, it’s not easy.

United States 223

United States North America Species 2013 223

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

On the other hand, the genetic relatives of offspring raised by cooperatively breeding families potentially gain fitness from the superior defenses that the extended family collectively mounts against brood parasites. Science (New York, N.Y.), Photo of a Fairy Wren from HERE. Feeney, W. Somveille, M., Heinsohn, R.,

Breeders 206

Breeders Breeding Birds Groups 206

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2015

These include Pennsylvania (George Armistead) and, the one we 10,000 Birds beat writers are really looking forward to, The ABA Field Guide to Birds of New York , by Corey Finger. This is also a good time to catch up on supplementary titles, such as guides to bird families. Books for Reading Pleasure . So, Happy Holidays to all!

Papua New Guinea 185

Papua New Guinea 2014 Penguins Birds 185

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

Of the Central Flyway states, Nebraska alone holds out in protecting the cranes, having proven by its longstanding Festival of the Cranes in Kearney that a crane is worth infinitely more alive and purring in the sky with its family than thudding, broken and bleeding, into a cornfield. RECENT POSTS More Habitat for Snowy Plover? Wicked, right?

2011 251

2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 251

10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2013

(Famously, the Blackburnian was the spark bird for notable birder Phoebe Snetsinger; it was also the spark bird for my friend Marylee,) Without warblers, migrant hotspots like the Ramble in New York City’s Central Park would be empty in May. Princeton University Press, July 2013. The Warbler Guide. 6 x 8 1/2, 1,000+ color illus.

United States 245

United States North America Species New York 245

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The organization is the same as The Crossley Guide: Raptors (PUP, 2013): photographic plates and brief text in the first half and extensive “Written Accounts” in the second half. This is how, I think, the “Crossley technique” works best—coverage of specific bird families that pose identification challenges to birders at all levels of skill.

Ducks 122

Ducks North America Geese Hunters 122