America Ducks Humane Raised 
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
They may be about bird eggs ( The Most Perfect Thing: The Inside (and Outside) of a Bird’s Egg , 2016), or a 17th-century ornithologist ( Virtuoso by Nature: The Scientific Worlds of Francis Willughby, 2016), or How Bullfinches learn songs from humans ( The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 24, 2012
Crowned Lapwing For such a huge area of land with great expanses of pasture, prairie and field, I find it odd that the Americas only host 2 species of Lapwing. A grounded flock of Black Vultures ducked as the lapwings buzzed close overhead trying to drive them off.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 6, 2017
The Peterson Field Guide to Bird Sounds of Eastern North America by Nathan Pieplow is innovative, fascinating, and challenging. The Peterson Field Guide to Bird Sounds of Eastern North America is divided into three main sections: Introduction, Species Accounts, and Index to Bird Sounds (also called the Visual Index).
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 9, 2014
Most birders are familiar with this story; back in the day, the pesticide DDT was in widespread use all over North America. But within a couple of decades, it’s effects on both wildlife and humanity became apparent. While DDT is still used some places in the world, it has largely disappeared from use in North America.
10,000 Birds
JULY 7, 2020
The longer Introduction lists and briefly summarizes topics covered in the Portfolio (evolution feathers, coloration, variation, senses, movement, physiology, migration, food and foraging, survival, social behavior, birds and humans, threats). 167, Meadowlark line of sight–not p.67). copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 11, 2014
Rightly or wrongly, there’s an hierarchy of extinct birds in North America, in the United States in particular. A weird mussel-eating duck. North America certainly doesn’t want for wood-warblers, many of whom are more dramatic that the little canebrake dweller. A slight, transhemispheric curlew. John Bachman.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 14, 2011
Gassett, I am a writer, naturalist and artist with a special interest in human/bird interactions. The sandhill crane has the lowest recruitment rate (average number of young birds joining a population each season) of any bird now hunted in North America. You don’t even have to have a duck stamp! to a high of 11%.
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