10,000 Birds

MAY 12, 2014

Scientific names don’t reflect the massive changes to species in the warbler family. Tanagers are listed in the table of contents as members of the Tanager, Thraupidae , family, not members of the cardinal and grosbeak, Cardinalidae , family. Cool Springs Press, March 2014, 224 pages, 8.2 by Noble Proctor.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Stories enhance his 2014 history of modern ornithology, Ten Thousand Birds ( co-written with Jo Wimpenny and Bob Montgomerie). There are two subjects which I think could have been explored more thoroughly–women in ornithological history and colonialism. Birkhead knows that these are sensitive topics.

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Dissection Birds Research Europe 249

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MAY 4, 2021

Marybeth learns as she birds, embraces listing goals as a means of engaging with community, unabashedly enjoys a little competition, struggles to balance her absolute joy in birding with unexpected, life-and-death family obligations. The book focuses on two listing events: her 2012 Louisiana Big Year and her 2016 Louisiana 300 Year.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 6, 2015

I reviewed the New Jersey volume in May 2014 and, being in Florida at the moment, I thought this was a good time to take a closer look at both the Florida volume, published just last month, and the Colorado volume, published in June 2014. (I December 2014. So, each guide has an individual personality. Scott & Nix, Inc.,

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10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2014

These bark-burrowing beetles, which apparently hitched a ride in cargo shipments from their native Asia, have been starving the ash trees of eastern and midwestern North America to death for a dozen years now. With all due respect to Maria von Trapp, combating the greatest infestation that U.S. Enter the woodpecker.

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Woodpeckers Illinois Science Chicago 273

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.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 1, 2014

” Although some doves get as much respect as the late Rodney Dangerfield, we shouldn’t let commonality cloud our view of this big, beautiful family. “No respect!” Those who ignore the doves would miss out on crazy feathered beings like the Orange Dove , or (gasp!) one of the crowned-pigeons. Not a chance!

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2014

I had taken the short drive to the park to search for a family of American Dippers sighted near the visitor center by a fellow birder a few days before. References: 1 Birds of North America Online , 2 Center for Biological Diversity , 3 Bond, M. 4 Center for Biological Diversity and the John Muir Project (2014). Siegel and, D.

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Woodpeckers California South Dakota Chad 178

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2020

Diversity of habitat means, of course, great biodiversity, and the Introduction boasts that Bolivia “is the richest landlocked nation on Earth for bird diversity, the sixth richest overall, and the fifth richest in the Americas” (p. This unfortunately happens with the large Tanager (Thraupidae) family here.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 26, 2014

The Yellow-rumped Warbler ( Setophaga coronata ) complex is one of the most abundant and widespread representatives of the New World warbler family in North America, present in many parts of the United States even through the winter months, when the birds feed on small fruits and other foods, including sap.

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United States 2011 Guatemala North America 256

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2020

Of course, it’s tricky for birders to reconcile popular associations about robins and spring with our own observations: over much of North America, most of us will get our first glimpse of a robin for the year on a first day walk on New Year’s Day, or at least within a few days after that.

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Farming New York St. Louis Belgium 155

10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2019

How to Know the Birds talks about 200 commonly found birds in North America (including one extinct bird, the Passenger Pigeon) in 200 brief essays, each exactly one page long. John Schmitt, who illustrated Raptors of Mexico and Central America amongst many other books and magazine articles.

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Birds North America Breeding America 116

10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2014

Hugh, who years ago helped me find my first Pauraque in the Rio Grande Valley , visited Peru as part of the 2014 World Birding Rally, where he stopped thinking of himself as an experienced birder. And I, like some dowager countess in a birding vest, am expected to know each one’s family at a glance and greet them by name.

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Peru Birds South America Owls 255

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2014

2014), presents an authoritative framework for our understanding of and future work on bird phylogeny. Now it’s late 2014, six and a half years later, and here’s what we know today. ’s bird family tree in a new tab and follow along as you read. American Flamingo photo by Dick Culbert). Open Jarvis et al.’s

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Family Birds Parrots 2014 279

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 7, 2014

The second edition of the National Geographic Complete Birds of North America, 2nd Edition has one of the longest book names in bird bookdom: National Geographic Complete Birds of North America, 2nd Edition: Now Covering More Than 1,000 Species With the Most-Detailed Information Found in a Single Volume. Karlson, and Brian E.

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North America America Birds Family 180

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

Saturday morning, 30 August 2014, was a perfect time for shorebirding at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge’s East Pond. To think that it was born in the arctic this spring and is heading for southern South America, which it will reach before it is six months old, is astounding. And, happily, the shorebirds even remembered to show up!

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Jamaica Bald Eagle Eagles South America 233

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APRIL 5, 2016

But, as with many avian families, the more you look, the more complicated it gets. It has also been published in Great Britain by Bloomsbury Publishing under the title Wildfowl of Europe, Asian, and North America , which explains why the English translation has British spelling conventions. There are the females, so many so brown.

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North America Asia Europe America 173

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OCTOBER 4, 2016

plus a chapter on “Vagrant landbirds from North America.” My librarian self is partial to a more strict taxonomic organization, but with no hope that the constant shifting of families will end in the near future, this type of sequence is making more and more sense. What about a table on golden plovers?”

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Ireland Birds Groups Falcons 160

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

But, unlike most books focused on a bird family, this one is organized geographically. Each chapter focuses on a specific geographic area of penguin population: (1) Antarctica, (2) South Georgia, (3) Falkland Islands, (4) South Africa and Tristan de Cunha, (5) New Zealand and Australia, (6) South America and Galapagos. Press, 2011).

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Penguins Georgia New Zealand Albatross 279

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AUGUST 4, 2020

Its scope is broader–the ecosystems of the natural world–and more urban, designed specifically for young people, 8 to 12 years old, who live in urban areas of northeastern North America. © 2014, 2019, Brooklyn botanic Garden, Inc. © 2014, 2019, Brooklyn botanic Garden, Inc. They are all beautifully illustrated.

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Los Angeles 2019 Birds 2014 264

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DECEMBER 1, 2015

Mack (Cassowary Conservation and Publishing, 2014) for Birding. Press, 2014) by Tui De roy, Mark Jones and Julie Cornthwaite, a gift you can give anyone. This is the time to fill in any glaring holes, like the second edition of the Sibley Guide to Birds (Knopf, 2014). You bird hard all year and you deserve them.

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Papua New Guinea 2014 Penguins Birds 189

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 5, 2017

The point is, the field guide I grabbed without hesitation was the National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America, 7th Edition by Jon L. North America is defined as from north of the Mexican border to the far north, plus “adjacent islands and seas within 200 nautical miles off the coast or offshore islands.”

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North America America 2017 Birds 189

10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2017

Corey wrote about the Common Tern chicks of Nickerson back in 2014, so I thought it was time for another post. I walked the breadth of the nesting area before finding a tern family that was a little bit away from the densest part of the colony and looked interesting. That could just be because I have a thing for boxes.

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Fish North America 2014 Game 183

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

Not, as Linneaus thought, an ostrich, nor even, as later scientists concluded, a distant cousin of pigeons deserving of family rank, it was an honest-to-goodness pigeon, deeply embedded within the family Columbidae. The Dodo ( Raphus cucullatus ) — that towering icon of modern anthropogenic extinctions — was a pigeon.

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Solomon Islands Guinea Mauritius Humane 279

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2022

But, I don’t think there is a bird identification guide around, on warblers or any other bird family, that has invented its own analytic system. Earley’s Warblers of the Great Lakes Region & Eastern North America (2003) may be far less intimidating choices. I’ve tried to learn the system, it’s not easy. The Warbler Guide.

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United States North America Species 2013 245

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Dragonflies and Damselflies of Costa Rica: A Field Guide by Dennis Paulson and William Haber fills a large gap in the field guide coverage of Costa Rica and continues the high level of excellence set by Paulson’s previous guides to dragonflies and damselflies of eastern and western North America. First page (p. 131) and last page (p.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2024

This may be before the Fairy-Wrens developed the ability to detect Cuckoo young in the nest, an ability recently described by ornithologists, or this family may be one of the 60% who don’t detect Cuckoo chicks. You don’t have to go to the Plates section, though, to start appreciating Elizabeth Gould’s art.

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Australia Birds Europe Collecting 218

10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2013

But, I don’t think there is a bird identification guide around, on warblers or any other bird family, that has invented its own analytic system. Earley’s Warblers of the Great Lakes Region & Eastern North America (2003) may be far less intimidating choices. I’ve tried to learn the system, it’s not easy.

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United States North America Species New York 262

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 30, 2020

The closest I’ve ever come to breaking that run was in 2014, when I only had six lifers all year. A Sage Thrasher – a vagrant from western North America and only one of a handful of New York State records – was found on the other side of the Hudson River over in Columbia County in early November. It’s been quite the year, hasn’t it?

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2020 Birds Costa Rica Germany 256

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 8, 2017

My trips abroad were limited to short family vacations to the Cote d’Azur during the first days of January and a week-long vacation to northern Tuscany / Italy in May. You see, I had seen members of the formerly united species very frequently in recent years, e.g. in Kazakhstan and during my time in North America back in 2006/07.

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2016 Germany Italy Netherlands 102

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

It covers 434 species across 9 orders and 18 families of birds. Other families are more complicated and these introductory sections are correspondingly longer and amazingly more detailed. SCOPE & SPECIES ORGANIZATION. Seabirds: The New Identification Guide is an identification guide to seabirds of the world, all of them.

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Albatross Penguins Family Groups 279

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APRIL 1, 2014

How have these species accounts changed from The Sibley Guide to Birds , published in 2000 (heretofore called Sibley One) to The Sibley Guide to Birds, Second Edition , published in March 2014 (and heretofore called Sibley Two). Birds are arranged in taxonomic order, organized into sections based on families.

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North America Birds Species America 255

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2015

Picidae, Woodpecker, is one of those charismatic bird families that everybody gets excited about. Woodpeckers of the World: A Photographic Guide is the first major guide to family Picidae in 20 years. Firefly Books, 2014; 528 pages, 6.2 If there are future editions of this title, as Gorman hopes, I hope this is changed.

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Woodpeckers 2002 Europe Research 260

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The Crossley ID Guide: Waterfowl covers every residential, migrating, vagrant, exotic, and introduced swan, goose, dabbling and diving duck in North America (Canada and the United States): 62 Species Accounts on four swan species and one vagrant subspecies; 15 goose species; 46 duck species; plus accounts for hybrid geese, ducks and exotics.

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Ducks North America Geese Hunters 133

10,000 Birds

JUNE 28, 2018

In 1850, the Passenger Pigeon ( Ectopistes migratorius ) was the most abundant bird in North America and possibly the world. If you want to argue the financial side of conservation, I refer you to my December 2014 post titled “ The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation and Who Pays for It.” A newly created U.S.

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