10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
The “Owls and Albatrosses” chapter, for example, begins with Doug’s personal experiences observing of the nesting strategies of Malleefowl and a Moluccan Megapode, Australasian “chickens who lay their eggs in unusual ways and do not parent. that’s three birds). This is a book that requires attention.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 5, 2024
The sea is never far away wherever you are in the Falklands: my diary records “a constant passage of Black-browed Albatrosses, hundreds of birds as far as the horizon, their white undersides catching the sun [ the weather must have cheered up! ] as they sheered into the wind. Re-reading my diary all these years later, it sounds pretty good.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 5, 2024
For example, most of the world’s Black-footed and Laysan Albatross and Ashy Storm-Petrel breed on these islands. Spotted Owls depend on old growth forests, largely in national forests and parks in the Pacific Northwest. Several endangered species are (or have been) highly dependent on specific tracts of federal land.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 8, 2020
Guiding aside, Howell is a research associate at the California Academy of Sciences and the author of many books, including Petrels, Albatrosses, and Storm-Petrels of North America (Princeton). Howell and Fabrice Schmitt: both of them are international bird tour leaders with WINGS. and I am glad to see this bold move in this book.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 11, 2011
And then there are the crazy-awesome Dippers and one should not forget the great diving birds like Gannets and Albatrosses. A flock of wanna-be Groove-billed Ani Well, not exactly like a Pink-throated Twinspot , but the colours of this Snapper do kinda remind me of one This has got to be an owl. Oooooh, I know, its a Pitta !
10,000 Birds
JUNE 9, 2021
After a good introduction called “The Miracle of Migration,” the substance of the book is organized not by strict taxonomy, but by “loose association” into six sections: Wildfowl and Diving Birds, Seabirds, Shorebirds and Waders, Songbirds, Raptors and Owls, and “Other Bird Migrations.”.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 19, 2020
I particularly like the albatrosses and owls, shrikes and boubous. Perhaps birds of prey are somewhat overcrowded, but still well organised. Some plates are replaced entirely, e.g. the excellent seabirds, newly painted by Faansie Peacock (a name to remember).
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