10,000 Birds

APRIL 9, 2011

And while they are easily identified to genus level, species identification - where necessary - is all I have mentioned in the intro to this post above, and then some. “Outside North America&# and “where necessary&# ? have asked themselves for ages: Is the Brown Creeper more than one species ? I’ll explain.

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North America Europe America Asia 145

10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2020

The simple answer is monetary gain, there is a global black market for these items, regardless of the species’ vulnerability for extinction. wrote a lengthy article in Outside magazine (Jan. 2019), and now this book. Author Joshua Hammer. photo credit: Cordula Krämer). The book is structured cinematically.

Falcons 208

Falcons United Kingdom Zimbabwe Eggs 208

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The 26 essays in When Birds Are Near are all about the real-life and emotional spaces where people overlap with birds. She says in her Introduction that she was inspired to compile this collection by a much earlier essay, an article by E.B. Press, 2011). ” Yet: “Reading the essays, one shares his ecstasy.”

New York City 185

New York City Birds Owls Fox 185

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Unless you are nothing but the lowly diehard lister, for which you should feel much shame and embarrassment for, birders and biologists alike frequently want to understand birds on a deeper level than how to identify the age, sex and species of a certain individual. What seeds does a Baird’s Sparrow eat?

Emotional 204

Emotional Science Birds Mammals 204

10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2018

In some cases, he took all adult males of the species or subspecies held by the museum. Detective Inspector Fraser Wylie of the Hertfordshire Constabulary offered a number of theories about how the stolen birds might be used—for dressmaking, costume jewelry, or fishing lures—and asked collectors to keep an eye out for these species.

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Collecting Iraq Ostriches Science 103

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

In most every one of his books (or articles, like those that were collected in his last book, A Naturalist At Large ) he poses a question about the natural world — often a question, like the central one in White Feathers, that no one else has thought much about — and then solves it. I saw it because I looked up.”

Eggs 130

Eggs Emotional Bats 2014 130

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

And, to give his dream year a little more oomph, he created a grand once-in-a-lifetime goal: to track down and see every pitta species in the world in one year. Some of his finds are the first documented records of the bird in that area or the first decent photograph of a little-known species. And mosquitos. Forthcoming U.S.

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Hunters Sri Lanka Asia Solomon Islands 192

Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 29, 2006

Very importantly, the breast-feeding years create emotional security in the child through the many hours of intimate contact with the mother. (Dr. As this Newsweek article and this Washington Post article report, when Gillette boarded a flight from Burlington, Vermont to New York on Oct. Never mind all that.

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Animal Meat Cows District of Columbia 40

10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2015

Nineteen days later we had racked up an amazing list of 436 species, including some of Africa’s least known birds such as Congo Serpent Eagle , Yellow-footed Honeyguide , Tessmann’s Flycatcher , Yellow-bearded Greenbul , Black-collared Lovebird and much besides. I returned home with very mixed feelings, which have spurred this article.

Ghana 191

Ghana Hunters Guinea Gambia 191

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

It is a deep intellectual and artistic exercise, which authentically captures my passion and emotion while watching birds. I sat for long hours along the road or on a mountain track, using my paint brushes and ink to catch the deep emotion and essence of those mountains, like in a Shanshui painting.

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Birds China Emotional Vietnam 189