10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 6, 2020
And why I am so happy to see new, updated editions of Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America being published. In May, I reviewed Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America, Second Edition. I think it’s a good assumption that Peter Pyle updated and wrote species descriptions, particularly for the Hawaiian birds.
10,000 Birds
MAY 5, 2020
The April arrival of the Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America, Second Edition was a supremely happy moment in a very difficult, sad month. A companion regional guide, Peterson Field Guide to Birds of Western North America was published in 1941; its fifth edition will be coming out in early September.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 1, 2021
Pough “with illustrations in color of every species” by Don Eckelberry, Doubleday, 1946. And now we have the third iteration in Audubon’s guide book history: National Audubon Society Birds of North America. The press material says it covers over 800 species, so you know I had to do a count. SPECIES ACCOUNTS.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 14, 2017
Now that Hawaii is in the ABA Area , the next additions should be Puerto Rico and the U.S. The Hawaii vote made it clear that that the ABA Area is about political borders, not geographical or ecological ones, and the two Caribbean territories have long been part of the United States. But even with Hawaii, there are many U.S.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 11, 2016
But if you look through the haze of reds and yellows and curvy bills on songbirds, you will see the horrific implications of the inclusion of Hawaii. Well look, it’s a nice species – but visually that’s nothing you wouldn’t get by repeateldy crossing Canada with Barnacle Geese. And the Nene? There, I said it.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 2, 2013
But he does live in the States, and America does have albatrosses, and they can be easily seen in California, which is not only in the States but is actually a place I’m fairly sure he visits. I was lucky to work with the species on Tern Island in French Frigate Shoals. The Black-footed Albatross.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 23, 2014
New studies find that: when birds migrate from the Arctic to South America, fragments of mosses, fungi, and other “diaspores” hitch a ride (and a similar phenomenon may have spread acacia trees from Hawaii to an island in the Indian Ocean); caterpillars which feed on many different types of plants are more attractive meals for birds than caterpillars (..)
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