10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

You can end up basking in a rare bird bliss that may linger for weeks, or you basically experience a living hell. There are few things worse than being extremely seasick, particularly if you pay close to $200 for the experience. If you misidentify something, you bring great shame and dishonor to both you and your family.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2014

’s bird family tree in a new tab and follow along as you read. Some of our longstanding questions now have really fascinating answers, and if others are still open or if new ones have been raised, we now have greater knowledge and freer imaginations with which to pursue them. In 2008, Nick Sly published a review of Hackett et al.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

It covers 434 species across 9 orders and 18 families of birds. We tend to think of seabirds as mysterious long-winged creatures that spend their lives flying over oceans–phalaropes, noddies, skuas, jaegers, auks, tropicbirds, penguins, albatrosses, storm-petrels, petrels, shearwaters, diving-petrels, frigatebirds, gannets, and boobies.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2015

Raised in the Galapagos, she’s been exposed to penguins her whole life. Penguins was preceded by Albatross: Their World, Their Ways (2008), co-authored with Mark Jones and Julian Fritter; the Penguins book was conceived with Jones and Cornthwaite as a successor to Albatross. Magenellic Penguin, parent and child. (p.

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