10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 13, 2018
Through multi-partnerships, cooperation, federal funding, and the private conservation efforts of one family, 616 acres were officially added to the Cherokee National Forest in September 2018. Downy Woodpecker. Pileated Woodpecker. Photo by © Michael Todd. Indigo Bunting. Photo by © Michael Todd. Summer Tanager.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 17, 2022
Add Common Tody-Flycatcher and several Hoffmann’s Woodpeckers and Brown-hooded Parrots to that picture, among many others. And yes, sometime in 2018, Mercedes and Harry started dating. Now, they are happily married.
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10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 23, 2021
One in November 2018 included a one-day birding trip in the Drakensberg area, a mountain range in the border area between South Africa and Lesotho. For some reason that is hard for me to fathom, there is no such bird as a Cape Woodpecker. I was vaguely curious about the family name mousebird. Nice not to be a kid, too.
10,000 Birds
MAY 5, 2020
Extinct birds, such as Ivory-billed Woodpecker, are included. And, the One-page Index, a quick reference to locating major bird families, is placed in two locations–the front and the back of the book. Then again, try explaining to a new birder why falcons come after woodpeckers and before parrots!
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 6, 2022
Additional helpful design features include the names of family groups against a yellow-and-white striped background on every page corner and having every bird image facing right (except for that Common Loon chick!), I’ve missed this information, especially when I travel to Los Angeles to visit my daughter and her family.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 3, 2020
Bill length is given separately for Toucans and Hummingbirds, based on the reasoning that it’s an important identification feature for the first and an important identification feature for the second, but not for kingfishers or woodpeckers. Tintaya’s woodpeckers also nicely feature tree (and cactus!)
10,000 Birds
JUNE 7, 2022
The Eurasian Wryneck is the woodpecker that doesn’t look like a woodpecker, the bird with the portmanteau name that is also a medical condition (and which may remind some people of a Nora Ephron essay). But they are woodpeckers: the genus Jynx of the subfamily Jynginae of the Picidae family.
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