10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Like so many nomads human and otherwise, the Pine Siskins are pleased to call this valley home base. I’ve written before about how much I enjoy the abundance of Pine Siskins in my adopted home. I was expecting Pine Siskins here. After all, there are pines. But I wasn’t expecting so many. The siskins are much simpler.

Blackbirds 163

Blackbirds Adoptable Humane Family 163

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

And when writing a field guide, it is accepted practice to adopt one of the above and to stick to it, with any questions or disagreements safely ensconced in the text, not in an actual change of species. Checklist for Belize lists 622 species in 76 families, of which 104 are rare or accidental and four introduced.

Costa Rica 203

Costa Rica Belize El Salvador Birds 203

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2014

It’s not like I had forgotten lists created with friends of ‘songs with birds in the lyrics’, my personal favorites being Sondheim’s Green Finch and Linnet Bird and the Beatles’ Blackbird. It’s relatively easy to classify birds into family groups based on physical characteristics. As they say, the relationship is complicated.

Birds 205

Birds Egypt Family Eagles 205