10,000 Birds
MAY 2, 2023
Flight Paths traces the history of migratory research in nine chapters, starting with the earliest attempts to track birds, bird banding/ringing (which she traces back to Audubon), and ending with ‘community science’ projects such as Breeding Bird Surveys and eBird. banding station, 2020. THIS IMAGE NOT IN THE BOOK.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 30, 2022
And the very best and the most up-to-date field guide is Birds of Malaysia – Covering Peninsular Malaysia, Malaysian Borneo and Singapore ”, the 2020 Lynx and BirdLife International Collection guide by Chong Leong Puan, Geoffrey Davison and Kim Chye Lim.
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 1, 2020
For one thing, we become more aware of cultural biases in our science (new findings on warbling female birds, for example, reveal both gender and geographic biases). Superb Lyrebird by John Burgoyne ©2020 . Many popular science books have neither. I am happy, however, that there is a list of readings and that there is an index.
10,000 Birds
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.’ The checklist of the Louisiana Ornithological Society was at 485 as of August 2020.) Copyright @2019 by Louisiana State University Press. LSU Press, 2019, 272 pp.
10,000 Birds
MAY 12, 2020
The most recent report was issued in December 2019 and it used data from the 2016 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation. Birding reported a paid distribution of approximately 9,300 on its Form 3526 in October 2019. There are (as of 2020) approximately 550,000 world-wide users of eBird.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 3, 2021
Bird communication is a complex and evolving science. I’m thinking here of books like Wenfei Tong’s Understanding Bird Behavior (PUP, 2020) and John Kricher’s superlative Peterson Guide to Bird Behavior (HMH, 2020). Bird communication is much broader than just vocalization, something I tend to forget.
10,000 Birds
JULY 4, 2023
Jennifer Ackerman points out in the introduction to What the Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds , that we don’t know much, but that very soon we may know a lot more. What the Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds is a joyous, fascinating read.
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