2015, Family, Humane and Research

Baby Bird Identification: A North American Guide–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2023

Baby birds are cuteness personified, possibly even more so than other baby animals, including human babies, and pose interesting questions of survival and development. Baby birds may be separated from the nest and their parents because of natural occurrences (violent weather, floods) or unknowing human interference or predators.

Wildlife Rehabilitation

Wildlife Rehabilitation Birds Family Collecting

Vagrancy in Birds: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2022

It also summarizes the vagrancy status of every bird family in the whole wide world, which makes it fun to read as well as superbly educational. There are many more factors than I imagined: compass errors, wind drift, overshooting, extreme weather and irruptions, natural dispersal, and human-driven vagrancy.

Birds

Birds Compassion Eagles Science

Bird Talk: An Exploration of Avian Communication–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2021

Ballantine and Hyman explore how birds communicate and summarize studies on how that communication functions in diverse bird families all over the world. I do wish there was more about research on female bird song. © 2021 Barbara Ballentine and Jeremy Hyman & Quarto Publishing. There is so much here! And, that’s it.

North America

North America Research Birds Groups

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Into the Nest: A Book Review in the Time of Nesting

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2015

Second, reading about birds courting and parenting brings out the tendency to identify, which leads directly to anthropomorphism, the tendency to assign birds human emotions and thoughts. Think of birds too much as humans and you lose the specialness that makes them birds. Some people love books like that. Yellow Warbler fledgling.

Eggs

Eggs Family 2006 New York

Birds of Belize & Birds of Costa Rica: A Field Guide Review Doubleheader

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

And Sandwich Tern is Sandwich Tern, Howell finding the DNA research for splitting it “weak.” Checklist for Belize lists 622 species in 76 families, of which 104 are rare or accidental and four introduced. Fantasy is the key word here. Doing this work takes time! ” These are just some examples.

Costa Rica

Costa Rica Belize El Salvador Birds

Altruism, Albatrosses, and Vicious Young Men

10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2017

27, 2015 Christian Gutierrez, Raymond Justice, and Carter Mesker went on a camping trip to Ka’ena Point Natural Area Reserve on Oahu, Hawaii. They were simply sent to Family Court. Biologist Lindsay Young says it will take 8 years to replace the breeding birds; 14 years of research and data have been destroyed. Gutierrez was 18.

Albatross

Albatross Honolulu Hawaii Killing

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Proposes 2015 Expansion of Hunting and Fishing Opportunities on National Wildlife Refuges

10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2015

June 9, 2015 – It’s deja vu all over again. The refuge offers opportunities for hiking and biking trails, canoeing and kayaking on Swan Lake, bank fishing, and family friendly programs and events.” The latest press release from the USFWS. 31 to provide inviolate sanctuary for migratory birds.

Fish

Fish Wildlife Hunting Game

Urban Ornithology: 150 Years of Birds in New York City–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2020

Two maps of the northwest Bronx and adjacent Yonkers, one from 1891 and one from 2015, pp. Not all habitat change is due to humans; there is Chestnut Blight destroying American Chestnuts in the early 1900s, and the more recent Dutch Elm disease. They wrote books and published research. “Wait!” More field guides?

New York City

New York City New York Birds Breeding

Mrs Pankhurst’s Purple Feather–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2019

Both were led by strong, intelligent women who needed to develop new ways of making their points with the public and the government; both movements were lynchpins in developing today’s values of human rights and environmental conservation. As a librarian and women’s studies scholar, I greatly appreciate the research.

Industry

Industry Virginia Portland Campaign

The Glitter in the Green: In Search of Hummingbirds–A Hummer Book Review

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2021

If you had your choice of one bird family to pursue, to seek out and observe and photograph and kvell over, which one would you choose? A passion for one bird family is also very useful. It provides goals and a definite direction for your birding travels and thoughts; sometimes it even becomes the basis of a book!

Costa Rica

Costa Rica Brazil Ecuador Bolivia

Birds in Winter: A Book Review, Written in Winter

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

There’s more, so much more, in this highly informative, detail-packed, research-based description of bird behavior. He aims to bring together all ornithological and ecological research on birds and winter the world over–not just in areas covered by snow–and summarize the findings in non-scientific language.

Research

Research Birds Hoarding Sweden

Birds of the Indonesian Archipelago: Greater Sundas and Wallacea–A Field Guide Review

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

The archipelago consists of 17,000 islands stretching out over 2500 miles along the Equator with a varied history of avian research and study, most on the under- or not-studied side. With the advent of human development, we can now add “farmland and plantations” to various types of forest, rainforest, and swamps. Co-author Frank E.

Indonesia

Indonesia Brunei Birds Malaysia

Faithful Loons and Human Lunacy

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

I strongly suspect that the rate of attrition on this Loon family is inversely proportionate to the abundance of ducklings in the bay. But now there is some research on that. From a press release about that research: >Common Loons (Gavia immer) nest on lakes across Canada and the northern U.S., Adams, Kristin A.

Humane

Humane Eagles Investigation Research

Best Bird of the Year for 2015

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 28, 2015

As 2015 comes to a close and birders the world over start thinking about what 2016 will bring we here at 10,000 Birds would like to take a moment to celebrate our best birds of 2015. Each Beat Writer was given the opportunity to share their Best Bird of the Year for 2015 and, as usual, we had some pretty solid birds.

2015

2015 Costa Rica Birds Sparrows

Animal Rights Zone

Baby Bird Identification: A North American Guide–A Book Review

Vagrancy in Birds: A Book Review

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Bird Talk: An Exploration of Avian Communication–A Book Review

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Into the Nest: A Book Review in the Time of Nesting

Birds of Belize & Birds of Costa Rica: A Field Guide Review Doubleheader

Altruism, Albatrosses, and Vicious Young Men

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Proposes 2015 Expansion of Hunting and Fishing Opportunities on National Wildlife Refuges

Urban Ornithology: 150 Years of Birds in New York City–A Book Review

Mrs Pankhurst’s Purple Feather–A Book Review

The Glitter in the Green: In Search of Hummingbirds–A Hummer Book Review

Birds in Winter: A Book Review, Written in Winter

Birds of the Indonesian Archipelago: Greater Sundas and Wallacea–A Field Guide Review

Faithful Loons and Human Lunacy

Best Bird of the Year for 2015

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