10,000 Birds
MAY 14, 2024
If you are searching for a book to draw kids into a love of birding, ornithologist Donald Kroodsma’s Listen to the Birds might be the perfect fit. Kroodsma, a birdsong specialist, is best known for his books for adults: The Singing Life of Birds , Birdsong by the Seasons , and Listening to a Continent Sing.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 3, 2023
Baby birds are cuteness personified, possibly even more so than other baby animals, including human babies, and pose interesting questions of survival and development. But perhaps that’s for a different book. Everyone loves baby birds; 10,000 Birds even had a Baby Bird Week once upon a time!
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 3, 2021
It’s a big subject that has been embraced by biologists Barbara Ballentine and Jeremy Hyman in Bird Talk: An Exploration of Avian Communication, a largish, book recently published by Comstock Publishing Associates, an imprint of Cornell University Press. It encompasses movement and plumage and even smell. And, that’s it.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 4, 2020
Which leads to a topic I’ve wanted to write about for a while–books that guide us in an exploration of nature. Her children’s books–which include the charming Mama Build a Little Nest , other picture books, and chapter books–evince an easy familiarity with birds, their science and birding ethics.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 1, 2016
Animals of Kruger National Park by Keith Barnes is the animal guide I wish I had when I visited South Africa. It would have been useful to have more information about the rest camps that define each route, but I understand that there is a fine line (maybe even a broad one) between writing an animal guide and a tourist guide.
10,000 Birds
JULY 4, 2023
Ackerman’s new book is about owls and owl research–the knowledge recently and currently being discovered through DNA analysis, new-tech tracking and monitoring, and old-fashioned fieldwork under the auspices of organizations like the Global Owl Project and the Owl Research Institute.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 2, 2020
Type it in and you’ll find articles about a showy South African plant, trailers for two films (one of which was pre-Code and apparently created a sensation), eleven novels, a romance novel series, an animated children’s film, socks, and no less than nine coloring books. Like Antpittas and Gnateaters by Harold F. Introduction.
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