10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 11, 2019
Common birds, you see, tend to have simple names, like House Sparrow, House Finch, or House Wren. A hyphen in a bird’s “first” name can occur pretty much anywhere, which is why the United States has a good supply of birds like White-crowned Sparrows and Yellow-rumped Warblers.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 23, 2019
This longspur,” Driver writes, “is named after a man who fought for years to maintain the right to keep slaves, and also fought against multiple Native tribes.”. Let’s not, as has also been proposed, then, rename Saltmarsh Sparrow to honor Roger Tory Peterson, great though his impact on birding may have been. Wilson’s Plover ?
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 6, 2013
It is common and widely recognized and for those very reasons, to most of us it just feels right. Jewish-calendar based year lists would start, depending on the year, with a burst of shore birds and waterfowl, a handful of late warblers, or the modest, meditative joy of migrant sparrows. There are also certain psychological advantages.
10,000 Birds
MAY 5, 2015
Experienced birders can identify birds using GISS; all birders can identify birds if they adopt the BBI approach. This may make taxonomic fanatics faint, but it is useful for learning how to differentiate amongst birds that look alike but really aren’t, like sparrows and longspurs, hummingbirds and swifts. So say Kevin T.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 11, 2011
Sounds good, right? Why should early adopters be punished for their passion? That’s right… you’ve got one week to spread the news, predict the future of bird guides, and describe your favorite Crossley plate. Wicked, right? Tell people about this giveaway through links, tweets, likes, etc.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 16, 2011
The kiwi (note, Maori loanwords do not get an ‘s’ when made plural) were first used as logos in the 19th century, and were quickly adopted as a a national emblem before the turn of the century. Wicked, right? Tree Swallows Return, It Must Be Spring Polygynandry and the Alpine Accentor Duck Migration Finally Saw-Whet.Or
10,000 Birds
MARCH 16, 2011
The results will inform a vision document to be adopted in July 2011 at a national conference to guide the NWR system for wildlife protection into the next decade and beyond. Wicked, right? If you are a North American birder, you should make your voice heard. Hat-tip to Stella.
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