10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Dorian’s gregarious personality and self-deprecating sense of humor makes even the most meditative sections one of a piece with his birding experiences, producing a good read that may make you think. Plus tales of birding from the point of view of the traveling cyclist. There are also surprises.

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Birds Los Angeles Massachusetts New York City 234

10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2021

A little more than halfway through 2014, a year Marybeth had decided would be devoted to finishing in the top fifty eBirders in Louisiana AND Alabama, there is a terrible accident and time must be put aside for Lynn’s healing and recovery. ’ “Is this going to be a collection of essays?” ” I wondered.

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Louisiana Species Mississippi Alabama 264

10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2019

Essay #158, “Things Birders Do: Big Years,” starts with the writer’s observation of a Barn Owl and then defines a Big Year, surprisingly celebrating it as opportunities for solitary introspection. Floyd’s writing style draws the reader in, including us in his experiences and observations, making the personal communal.

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Birds North America Breeding America 116

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

The amount of knowledge gained from reading Mastering Bird Photography, the resulting improvement in your photographic images, the increase in your enjoyment of the experience–these are your probable gains. Her photos have appeared in numerous magazines, educational exhibits, calendars, and she has won prestigious photography awards.

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Birds Ethics 2019 Experience 201

10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2014

Laughing Owl, 1909, New Zealand, photo taken by Cuthbert and Oliver Parr, pp. The Laughing Owl of New Zealand exhibited an apparent lack of fear of strangers and a propensity to spend time on the ground, making it easy pickings for introduced predators. Their photos are the only known ones taken of the owl in the wild.

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Animal Mammals Hawaii Dolphins 270

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2019

Eight Owls Make a heart.’ in Neurobiology and Behavior from Cornell University and works for the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, but this story clearly has its roots in personal experience birding with young children. Beach Lane Books, 2014. ‘Six Pelicans Rest at night. Seven Finches Stand apart. x 11 inches.

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New York City Pelicans Birds New York 165

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2016

There are 28 chapters—“Waders,” “Large Waterside Birds,” “Owls and nightjars,” “Birds of prey” (pulling together vultures, hawks and falcons), “Aerial feeders” (swifts, swallows, martins), etc.—plus Britain’s Birds is organized in a very loose taxonomic order, with priority given to grouping together birds that are perceived as similar.

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Ireland Birds Groups Falcons 155

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 21, 2014

I tried to rustle up some Short-eared Owls down at Nations Road, a notorious haunt for these magnificent beasts. Curse my rotten owl luck, I didn’t see a single one, but did manage a pale Rough-legged Hawk. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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2014 Virginia Owls Birds 174

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. Sister to this group is the Strisores : the “night birds” (excluding owls), swifts, and hummingbirds. Open Jarvis et al.’s

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Family Birds Parrots 2014 279

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Penguins are cartoons, emoticons, animated films, children’s books (though owls really take first place here), sports teams, a book publisher, and a Batman villain (a rare example of penguin negativity, though Burgess Meredith did bring an endearing attitude to his 1960’s TV portrayal). Press, 2011).

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Penguins Georgia New Zealand Albatross 279

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

.’ Not every species has a GV section, and the amount of description allocated in each section varies from a brief notation on color differences (most species) to the uncertainty of how voice variations relates to color morphs (Vermiculated Screech-Owl). Press, 2014); and Guide to the Birds of Honduras by Robert J.

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America El Salvador Costa Rica Honduras 214

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Unfortunately, this morph is the dominant one at Fuzhou NFP”) that somehow survived the review process, possibly because the reviewer has had similar experiences. The closest I’ve ever come to breaking that run was in 2014, when I only had six lifers all year.

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2020 Birds Costa Rica Germany 251

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 14, 2014

He was very pleased to finally get Eastern Screech-Owl on his Queens list when one responded to tape in central Queens. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Even better, it was the first in eight years on the Queens County Christmas Bird Count! Birding best bird weekend'

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2014 Birds Owls Experience 162

10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2024

A two-page portrait of Cuban Trogon is next, its blue, green, red, and white plumage shining, then a two-page depiction of three Ruffs in male summer, male winter, and female plumage, and finally the Galapagos Short-eared Owl on the alert, facing the title page. This is NOT an image from the book.

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Australia Birds Europe Collecting 210

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 31, 2019

Since Craig Robson’s “Birds of Thailand” (2002) is taxonomically outdated, the choice was Robson’s “Birds of South-East Asia” (the updated second, 2014 edition of the 2001 classic). The paintings are, no doubt beautiful, but how successful they are, I can judge only by checking those birds I have a lot of experience with.

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Thailand Zambia Birds Asia 204

10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2014

The Introduction’s sections on “Migration and Vagrancy in Birds” and “Where do North American Vagrants Come From” are the heart of the book, representing the authors’ thoughts on vagrancy patterns, based on years of experience, past ornithological research, and their own data analyses. by Steve N.

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North America America Birds United States 261

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2015

So, it is strange that while books have been written about owls and hawks, and the semi-charismatic seabirds and shorebirds, there have been few books written about woodpeckers. Firefly Books, 2014; 528 pages, 6.2 Picidae, Woodpecker, is one of those charismatic bird families that everybody gets excited about.

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Woodpeckers 2002 Europe Research 256