10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

An associated issue is that the Belize and Costa Rica guides share many of the same descriptions of species, written by Howell. Similarly, descriptions of species repeated across volumes do not lose their accuracy with each publication. Other species are splits and lumped and have had their names changed. Why are these issues?

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Costa Rica Belize El Salvador Birds 212

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

While not on the scale of bird migration, it is routinely and somewhat lazily described as the biggest annual migration of humans in the world. million words in books published in 1800, by 2019, its usage was down to once every 5 million words, according to the Google Books Ngram Viewer).

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China Birds Pythons Rabbits 204

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 29, 2020

It wasn’t long before they were joined by any number of White-throated Magpie-Jays , a particularly exciting development since I had just included the three I had seen during 2019 in that year’s Best Birds of the Year list. The 29 species I added to my January list say so as well.) I would definitely say that it is.

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Birds 2006 Mexico Morocco 160

10,000 Birds

JUNE 12, 2018

Invasive species , particularly rodents, have long been a problem on the Hawaiian archipelago. Mice are also detrimental to the island’s habitat for other reasons, including their consumption of plants and invertebrates, often competing with native species. The plan is to conduct the eradication in July or August 2019.

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Mice Albatross Honolulu Endangered Species 102

10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2020

One of the world’s most handsome and successfully introduced gamebirds, the Common Pheasant has been well-established for centuries — thanks to human trade — far outside of its original range in the Balkans and the foothills of the Caucasus, first in Roman times across most of Europe, and later in North America (beginning in 1773).

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2015 Portugal France Europe 155

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2020

Everyone is looking back on their best birds of 2019, so I thought it would be a good idea to look at a book that looks back a little further: Urban Ornithology: 150 Years of Birds in New York City , by P. The book is divided into three parts: “Introduction,” “Avifaunal Overview,” and “Species Accounts.” Norse, and John Kieran.

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New York City New York Birds Breeding 149

10,000 Birds

APRIL 8, 2019

More than 5,000 bird species in the world make some kind of seasonal movement. The harshest law of all, one more draconian than any human legislature could enact, is the law of unintended consequences. Houghtton Mifflin Harcourt (April 2, 2019). Example A, perfectly up to date, is the wind turbine. by Kenn Kaufman.

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Ohio Bats Legislature Ducks 197

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Forget lions, tigers, and bears – if Internet listicles are to be believed, all of Oz is full of crocodiles, sharks, jellyfish, snakes, spiders – even magpies – that are dead set on killing, maiming, or injuring any humans they encounter. Suffice to say, their 2019 Teal Lake Shiraz is a far cry from your bubbe’s Manischewitz.

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2019 Australia Ducks Fowl 222

10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2019

So, for example, Essay #15, “Individual Variation,” uses Herring Gulls to introduce the concept that one species, even one species at a specific age, can vary widely in appearance. The Checklist is more than a taxonomic listing of species and chapter number and title; it also contains useful notes on each bird family.

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Birds North America Breeding America 115

10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2022

At the same time, or ideally shortly thereafter, the science will convince and stimulate popular writings to reach a broad audience, one that eventually enlist the general public to demand reasonable, justifiable changes that will benefit human society, which is part and interdependent with nature. (p. Did the model work? by Daniel Klem, Jr.,

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New York City Birds Illinois Science 253

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

It’s also about human-owl interaction on an individual level and a wider sociocultural level, and ultimately how we can use all this for habitat and bird conservation. The species are taxonomically divided into two families: Tytonidae, Barn-Owls, and Strigidae, Owls, encompassed in one order, Strigiformes.

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Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 209

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2021

In 2012, I reviewed The Jewel Hunter , an absorbing narrative in which author Chris Goodie travelled throughout Asia, Africa, and Australasia to observe and photograph every Pitta species in the world. Hummingbird species, on the other hand, number in the hundreds.

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Costa Rica Brazil Ecuador Bolivia 264

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Even the Latin species name soror (“sister”) indicates the similarity to another pitta species (blue-naped). The eBird description of the Small Niltava starts with the surprisingly dull statement that “size distinguishes this species from other niltavas” Who would have thought.

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China Birds Pythons Eagles 226

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia , one of the many fantastic characters is a rather human-like frog creature named Puddleglum. These species should all be slam-dunks for Lake Cuitzeo in the fall. Still, what is bad for one species may be good for another. But, as always, new sites bring new species. Puddleglum indeed!

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 8, 2019

The human and economic consequences were dramatic, and continue to be felt. Species with small ranges ( e.g. , single island endemics) or tiny populations ( e.g. , endangered species) are especially vulnerable. Some species experienced dramatic declines. Most species of shorebird fell as well.

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Puerto Rico 2017 2018 Virgin Islands 254

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

This includes current research (up to about 2016, but mostly earlier) on how climate change and human change are affecting the birds’ ecology and behavior. There are too many buts, excepts, and maybe’s, a lot of research on some species and very little on others.

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Research Birds Hoarding Sweden 168

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2016

All birds are equal on this list; parking lot birds or pelagic species, breeders or fly-overs, all will be accorded the same status and each shall be worth 1 credit on the list. Thus, a combined list of current beat writers will be compiled to see how many birds, weird and wonderful, common or unusual we can find between us. 08 Feb 2016.

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