Adoptable Blog Breeding Experience 
10,000 Birds
JULY 18, 2022
This would have allowed you to summarize your experience in sentences such as “A total of 98 boluses regurgitated by 52 chicks aged 1 day to 11 days after hatching form the sample and are shown to contain 323 food items.” This is ok as birds do not have teeth anyway). End of side note. Chinese Pond Herons also grow on trees.
10,000 Birds
MAY 22, 2011
By their unexpected numbers and activity, I wouldn’t be surprised if they we’re planning on breeding here. Corey’s best bird of the weekend was a Grasshopper Sparrow in Queens, his first ever in his (adopted) home borough. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 8, 2023
Steve Howell has spent decades of experience in the field studying the birds of Belize, Costa Rica, and especially Mexico. 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.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 2, 2019
Peterson Reference Guide to Sparrows of North America covers 61 species of the New World sparrow family Passerellidae that breed in Canada, the United States, and northern Mexico. Rick Wright agrees. Personally, I find the lack of an apostrophe-s easy to adapt to in writing, but strange when I say it out loud. Range and Geographic Variation.
Animal Person
MAY 26, 2010
My random number of 20 Lessons Learned From 4 Years of Blogging at Animal Person (for the others go to #1-6 , #7-10 and #11 & 12 ) ends today with #13-20, which is far longer than I thought it would be. If I had it all to do again, I'd do a video blog and I'd get at least proficient at the technical aspects. Sorry about that.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 6, 2011
Informed literature bears out my experience that most birds are seen singly or in pairs. Outside of the breeding season a few birds may join together in a loose flock if the feeding is good. The resolution has been reduced for the blog, but in high-res, 2 or 3 dark filaments are visible. Their function?
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 14, 2017
There are arguments for adding all territories, but experience demonstrates that the ABA moves glacially when it comes to the ABA Area. Although most conservation research focuses on northern breeding grounds, many ABA Area birds spend most of the year elsewhere. The only other populated U.S. territories are Guam (pop.
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