10,000 Birds

JANUARY 9, 2013

Greg Cantrell is doing a New Jersey Big Year, hoping for 300 species, and raising funds for the New Jersey Audubon Citizen Science program. And who’s planning one for 2014? You can see what she is up to at Laura’s Conservation Big Year 2013. No blog, but you can check out this post on the New Jersey eBird portal.

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JANUARY 20, 2015

Science 12 December 2014: 346 (6215), 1253293 [DOI:10.1126/science.1253293]. Here is the citation: Xing Xu, Zhonghe Zhou, Robert Dudley, Susan Mackem, Cheng-Ming Chuong, Gregory M. Erickson, and David J. Varricchio. An integrative approach to understanding bird origins.

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AUGUST 4, 2015

How to choose bird feeders; how to make nutritious bird food; how to create a backyard environment that will attract birds; how to survey your feeder birds for citizen science projects; how to prevent squirrels from gobbling up all your black oil sunflower seed (sorry, none of that works). million people in the U.S. in 2011*) came about.

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JANUARY 21, 2014

But, until recently this has not been confirmed by science. 84, 263–266 (2014). The Tigerfish eating bird thing does not have the hallmarks of a fantastic thing. The story I saw on my Twitter feed referred to scientists from North-West University in Potchefstroom, South Africa, working in the Mapungubwe National Park in South Africa.

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MAY 4, 2021

Chapter Two is a potpourri of stories about nemesis birds, birding by ear, birding for science, under the rubric of birding ‘for the love of it.’ ’ “Is this going to be a collection of essays?” ” I wondered. But, in Chapter Three the book takes on more shape.

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APRIL 16, 2013

Now seems like a good time to look in on the birding big years happening in 2013 to see how folks are doing as they tear around their county or region or state or province or country trying to see as many birds as possible before 1 January 2014.

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MAY 7, 2019

Written in a friendly, inclusive style quietly grounded in science, How to Know the Birds is an excellent addition to the growing list of birding essay books by talented birder/writers like Pete Dunne and Kenn Kaufman.

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DECEMBER 15, 2014

But the prospects of our trip grew even more exciting once we learned that our stay would coincide with the Conteo de Aves Arenal 2014 or 2014 Arenal Bird Count. Best of all, we’d be part of the count team at Finca Luna Nueva. And then maybe you’ll turn up a Keel-billed Motmot!

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JUNE 3, 2014

Hugh Powell is a science editor at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. 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. This is his first contribution to 10,000 Birds. Come to Peru, they said.

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AUGUST 6, 2019

Jenkins has written and illustrated a number of science-based books for children, many with his wife, Robin Page. Beach Lane Books, 2014. These illustrations by Steve Jenkins are perfect. The colorful collages fill each page with images of the bird, nest, and habitat. Age Range: 2 – 5 years. Mama Built a Little Nest. x 11 inches.

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JUNE 1, 2021

The photographs are from VIREO, the ornithological image collection associated with the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, which licenses bird photographs to many guides and reference books. New York Times, March 11, 1996. link] Howell, Steve N. Rare Birds of North America. Flexibound : 912 pages.

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MARCH 3, 2020

The guide covers 1,433 species, the number of birds documented at the end of 2014, the cutoff point for the book. This is more than eBird reports–a checklist generated from the citizen science database lists only 1,413 species. Clearly, this is an under-birded country. .

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Three books will have been published about the Passenger Pigeon by the end of 2014: A Feathered River Across the Sky: The Passenger Pigeon’s Flight to Extinction by Joel Greenberg, The Passenger Pigeon by Errol Fuller, and A Message From Martha: The Extinction of the Passenger Pigeon and Its Relevance Today by Mark Avery.

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DECEMBER 20, 2014

The magnificent history and diversity of birds on Earth came into sharper focus this month with the publication of 28 new scientific papers in Science and other journals. 2014), presents an authoritative framework for our understanding of and future work on bird phylogeny. American Flamingo photo by Dick Culbert). Open Jarvis et al.’s

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AUGUST 4, 2020

Her children’s books–which include the charming Mama Build a Little Nest , other picture books, and chapter books–evince an easy familiarity with birds, their science and birding ethics. © 2014, 2019, Brooklyn botanic Garden, Inc. © 2014, 2019, Brooklyn botanic Garden, Inc.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2015

Black Swan S62 got his neck band 31st January 2014 and is over one year old. Many types of research have to rely on “citizen science” and this is an excellent example where you can contribute and be instantly rewarded with information when you submit your observations.

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DECEMBER 11, 2018

By September 2014, there were an estimated 164 Millerbirds on Laysan. Over two years (2011 and 2012), scientists captured 50 birds and successfully transported them from Niho to Laysan. No birds died during the translocation and the one-year survival rate was 58% in the 2011 and 96% in the 2012.

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JUNE 26, 2018

Nonprofit organizations, science, and the best intentions in the world came to the rescue with a captive breeding program, and we now have over 400 Pink Pigeons living in Mauritius, the nearby island of Ile aux Aigrettes, and the zoos hosting the breeding program, including the Bronx Zoo. Passenger Pigeons, for example.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Pickrell, an Australian science writer who grew up in Great Britain and studied for his master’s degree at London’s Natural History Museum, is clearly engaged with his subject. There is a lot of science here to explain. Columbia, University Press, September 2014. Pickrell puts the pieces together in 11 chapters.

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OCTOBER 5, 2021

” There is also a Glossary, mostly of anatomical parts; A Bibliography of sources; a list of useful Websites–citizen science programs like iNaturalist that contain records of Costa Rican odonates; a listing of Photo Credits; and an “Index to Species and Families” (but not genera).

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NOVEMBER 3, 2018

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OCTOBER 6, 2018

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AUGUST 4, 2018

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JANUARY 5, 2019

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DECEMBER 1, 2018

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AUGUST 5, 2014

The entry on eBird (number 89) cites its citizen science basis as looking “very much like the future for online bird recording”, but then veers into a description of BirdTrack, the British database, rather than discussing the financial sustainability of the Cornell project. Bloomsbury USA, August 2014.

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MARCH 4, 2014

He has led birding tours for many years and is a research associate at Point Blue Conservation Science. Will Russell is a founder and managing director of WINGS, now “semi-retired.” ——————————— Rare Birds of North America. by Steve N. 7 x 9 1/2 | 275 color plates.

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APRIL 7, 2015

This is not your ordinary reference book, though it was cited as one of the best reference sources of 2014 by Library Journal. Science and Conservation , the second section, presents two-page summaries of the diverse research being done around the world about penguins. —————-. 9 x 12; hardcover: $35.00.

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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). Knopf, 2014. So, how do we evaluate the portrayal of color in a field guide? inches, 624 pages.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2018

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