10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 20, 2016
While Americans gear up for the face-stuffing family time that is Thanksgiving the rest of the world looks on in horror as the Trump administration starts to take shape. Will 2016 never end? Will you survive Thanksgiving with your politically opposite family? Will anything survive four years of Trump? How about you?
10,000 Birds
APRIL 5, 2016
Ducks, swans, and geese may initially appear easy to identify. But, as with many avian families, the more you look, the more complicated it gets. I particularly like the three head shots of “possible” Snow Geese X Ross’s Geese. So much simpler than pinning down those warblers!
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10,000 Birds
JANUARY 4, 2017
In particular they evoke the New Hampshire lake my extended family descends upon each summer and has done so from before I was born. Common Loons , or Great Northern Divers, are one of those iconic birds that I remember vividly from days before being a birder.
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.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 6, 2017
Since the election in 2016, Merriam-Webster has experienced something of a cultural resurgence. Duck : “any of various swimming birds (family Anatidae, the duck family) in which the neck and legs are short, the feet typically webbed, the bill often broad and flat, and the sexes usually different from each other in plumage.”.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 5, 2017
Most of the species are described in the Species Accounts, arranged taxonomically into 86 family chapters. Each family chapter begins with a brief, bold-printed description of the common traits of the species in the family and an enumeration of the number of species worldwide and the number of species in North America.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 18, 2016
Primates are exceptional among the mammals, living amphibians (which represent only a small part of the original amphibian family tree) are pretty noisy too. 66 million years ago, and one of those groups gave rise to the ducks and geese. Novas, published in Nature (Published on line, 12 October 2016). Isasi, Daniel R.
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