10,000 Birds
JANUARY 3, 2023
I am puzzled as to why Gulls and Terns are almost passed over, with less than two pages of text devoted to a family description and only six species accounts (four gulls, two terns). Family follows family with no page break, making this section a little dense. and three of the nine woodpeckers illustrated.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 29, 2015
But Corey also hit up the Forest Park bird feeders with his family Saturday afternoon and Desi, his five-year-old, was so taken with a Red-bellied Woodpecker (the one above) that Corey had to choose it as his favorite bird of the weekend too. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?
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10,000 Birds
JANUARY 5, 2023
The photos in this post were taken in 2015 and 2016 – I was not only an amazingly attractive, almost young person then, but also a surprisingly bad photographer. In the past, Great Spotted Woodpeckers mostly lived off renting out their old apartments to other species.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 7, 2021
Harrison in 1978 (it is now in its second edition, 2015, PUP). Species are organized by family and families are arranged in taxonomic order according to American Ornithological Society’s Checklist of North American Birds , 7th edition through the 59th Supplement (2018). The Harrison guides are out of print.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 1, 2015
Into the Nest: Intimate Views of the Courting, Parenting, and Family Lives of Familiar Birds (Storey Publishing, 2015) by photographer Marie Read and writer Laura Erickson, documents the procreative and parenting lives of 49 species through beautiful images and readable, knowledgeable text. So, Happy Holidays to all!
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 7, 2018
Guide to the Birds of Honduras was self-published in 2015, text by Gallardo and artwork by John Sill, Michael DiGiorgio, and Ian Griffiths. These descriptions are quite helpful, especially if you are not familiar with the family group. Species Accounts. The Species Accounts are arranged in a rough AOS taxonomic order.
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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