10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
The Atlas was published in 2020, so these numbers may have been grown since then. Barnacles are attractive geese that have long been popular in wildfowl collections According to the Atlas , the combined population for the Russian, Baltic, Netherlands population is around 770,000 individuals, which is an awful lot of geese.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 3, 2023
Species Accounts are organized by family according to the 61st Supplement (2020) of the AOS Checklist of North and Middle American Birds (the 62nd Supplement came out while the book was in production, which is to be expected). Harrison, and Nests, Eggs, and Nestlings of North American Birds, 2nd ed.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 1, 2021
It does seem like the order is concurrent with the 61st Supplement, which came out in 2020, but Northwestern Crow is included as a full species. Plate 28 from Audubon Bird Guide, Eastern Land Birds, by Richard H. Pough “with illustrations in color of every species” by Don Eckelberry, Doubleday, 1946.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 1, 2020
There is a lot of extreme behavior here (and a lot of that behavior takes place in Australia), but this is not simply a collection of the world’s most fantastic bird tales. Superb Lyrebird by John Burgoyne ©2020 .
10,000 Birds
APRIL 7, 2020
It didn’t occur to me till I started reading The Falcon Thief: A True Tale of Adventure, Treachery, and the Hunt for the Perfect Bird that there was also a possible threat to the eagle herself: poachers, who steal raptor eggs and chicks. McWilliam realizes he’s dealing someone special, a career falcon egg-thief.
10,000 Birds
JULY 4, 2023
Johnson is collecting myths about owls from cultures around the world and is also presiding over a 12-year Burrowing Owl Project that seeks to collect DNA samples, vocalizations, morphological data and map locations for every Burrowing Owl subspecies the world over. Jennifer Ackerman is one of my favorite bird authors.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 12, 2022
We had a nice collection of birds of prey for the day. In spite of our proximity, it spent a good while positioned as if it had eggs there. That number was a bit better than my first-day total from 2019, though a bit worse than 2020’s total. There weren’t any Red-tailed Hawks. (I Was it practicing?
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