Albatross Family Penguins Raised 
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 22, 2011
Who cares if they nest in the Antarctic and eat penguins? “My biggest regret in life was raising my binoculars to observe this monstrosity of a bird” – Ethel M. If you misidentify something, you bring great shame and dishonor to both you and your family. South Polar Skua. Long-tailed Jaeger. Red-footed Booby.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 20, 2014
’s bird family tree in a new tab and follow along as you read. This major radiation of water-adapted birds includes loons, penguins, and the remarkable tubenoses along with a variety of totipalmate and wading birds. ’s placement of foot-propelled loons as basal to the whole group and penguins and tubenoses as sister taxa.
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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.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 7, 2015
Last month woodpeckers, this month penguins. None fly, most are curious and social, which probably contributes to our cultural perception of penguins as one step away from human. King Penguins heading out to feed, Macquarie Island (beginning of book). The introductory Penguin Who’s Who introduces each species visually.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 10, 2014
This outstanding member of the wattlebird family is unique among songbirds in having different shaped beaks for each of the sexes. We’ll also keep our eyes open for several members of the New Zealand wren family. The forests around Wellington will let us clean up any North Island endemics we may have missed. Laughing Owl.
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