10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2012

Once a body of research was established and the bird was declared endangered, it took many more years of experimentation, political maneuvering, conflicts with the National Guard, and some tragic fires to establish what is now acclaimed as a model conservation project. Now there are volunteer guides, tours and a local festival.

Michigan 221

Michigan Bahamas Endangered Species Research 221

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

A little bit of research when I got home unraveled the ways of publishers here and in Great Britain. The accounts aim for specificity and authority; dates and locations of rarity sightings are given, and research articles on nesting and behavior are cited. Even during the breeding season the birds appear to be quite unwary of humans.

Trinidad 189

Trinidad Birds South America Research 189

10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2014

For decades researchers have made annual trips out to the Tortugas to catch Sooty Terns, attach tiny silver bands to their legs with unique identification numbers, and then set them free again. The park is home to not one, not two, but large three colonies of breeding seabirds: the Brown Noddy , Magnificent Frigatebird , and Sooty Tern.

Birds 174

Birds Florida Groups Breeding 174

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

It was not a kitty cat, even though all of its relatives in the Americas were. The majority of wildcats live today in Africa, and virtually none of them have provided the DNA from which supposed histories of domestication have been constructed by researchers. But they don’t live in North America. Unless we put them there.

Feral Cats 252

Feral Cats North America Feral Cats 252

10,000 Birds

JULY 1, 2014

They cut down the trees the parrots used for nesting and brought black rats, who ate their eggs, and honeybees who swarmed into their nests, and by 1937 there were only about 2,000 Puerto Rican Parrots left. Clue: El Yunque is featured on one of the coins in the America the Beautiful Quarters program.). Other Europeans came.

Puerto Rico 227

Puerto Rico Parrots New York City 2013 227

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2013

How far is the closest human settlement? Well yes, but all of the planet’s tall mountains are relatively close to some form of human habitation. Some rain-forests could rightfully be termed remote but again, human habitation is actually relatively closer than what one might think. Eaton’s Pintail by N.

Birds 198

Birds South Africa South America Feral Cats 198

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

We immediately get a sense of the pigeons’ abundance, beauty, and danger to human activity. She portrays humans merged with Passenger Pigeons; the images are then framed to look like 19th century calling cards. How many eggs did a pigeon lay? This is not that kind of book, as Fuller makes clear from the beginning.

2014 159

2014 Killing Michigan Kentucky 159

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

They breed in dense colonies, incubate their single egg on the feet, and take more than a year to fledge a chick. Howell’s Petrels, Albatrosses, and Storm-Petrels of North America: A Photographic Guide, previously reviewed here. Human habitation and industry had an almost devastating effect on this area.

Georgia 172

Georgia Penguins Wildlife Whales 172

10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2019

Species Accounts vary greatly in length, from nine pages for Undulated Antpitta to two pages for Alta Floresta Antpitta, length depending not only on how much we know about the bird but also Greeney’s tendency to thoroughly discuss, even argue, any kind of confusion in documentation, taxonomy, or research results.

Research 136

Research Eggs South America Costa Rica 136

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2015

To research this book, he traveled extensively to see as many woodpeckers as he could; this field experience was supplemented with museum research and consultations with other experts, plus a library of print material ranging from field guides to scientific papers. This makes it very difficult to research woodpeckers by genus.

Woodpeckers 234

Woodpeckers 2002 Europe Research 234