10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2022

and then the life and writings of Harriet Mann Miller, a New York State native who under the name Olive Thorne Miller wrote eleven books and hundreds of articles about nature in the mid- and late 19th century. She frames her story with first a Doonesbury comic strip (remember Dick Davenport, the bird watcher?)

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2018

In the e-era now, print magazines are going the way of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker. Take a moment, then, to give thanks for the remaining good ones, the primary example being National Geographic. These effects are shown in periodic “Then & Now” spreads about such things as bird migration, hummingbirds, and field guide art.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2012

OK, that is extreme, but what’s really slicing my Twinkie right now is an article from the Ottawa Citizen about a report from the journal Wildlife Research which projects that 22 million birds die across Canada every year after flying into windows of residential homes and that yards with feeders seemed to have more collisions.

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Rabbits Killing Canada Farming 154

10,000 Birds

MAY 6, 2016

As Kenn Kaufman points out in an August 2014 article for Birdwatching , it’s possible to envision that tyrant label sticking to the kingbird either on the basis of its bold behavior or its red crown. The tyrant flycatchers, in turn, derive their name from the first member of the family to land a Latin name, the Eastern Kingbird.

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Costa Rica 2014 Family Collecting 104

10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2017

In a time of little published information about the rainforests of Central and South America aside from scientific journal articles and the works of 19th-century naturalists, the “little green book,” as it was called, became a must-read amongst nature-oriented travelers and researchers.

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South America Ecuador Reptiles America 168

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2012

OK, that is extreme, but what’s really slicing my Twinkie right now is an article from the Ottawa Citizen about a report from the journal Wildlife Research which projects that 22 million birds die across Canada every year after flying into windows of residential homes and that yards with feeders seemed to have more collisions.

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Rabbits Killing Canada Farming 113

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2019

,’ a couple of times, especially since his taxonomic explanations are much more accessible than the scientific article which he used as the basis for these decisions. This article*, authored by seven evolutionary biologists, used mitochondrial DNA gene sequences to establish generic and species level relationships amongst New World sparrows.

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North America Sparrows America United States 164

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Late last month, while searching for bears , woodpeckers and spirits of Greece, I deliberately avoided checking any news, especially from my home country. A different research says, from 2002 to 2011 the known populations of forest elephants declined by 62%. Every now and then, I need to cut the world off and clear my mind.

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Elephants Botswana Zimbabwe Africa 200

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2015

She does, and her narrative serves as a role model for how to write about birds simply and knowledgeably; informing birds’ family stories with scientific facts and research findings. Both authors marvel at the diversity of birding reproductive and parenting behavior.

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Eggs Family 2006 New York 263

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2020

For example, Red-bellied Woodpeckers began their colonization “without warning” on western Long Island in mid-May 1961, expanded “the invasion” in spring 1962, and then incurred a “second invasion” in spring 1969 (p. They wrote books and published research.

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New York City New York Birds Breeding 161

10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2014

Female Imperial Woodpecker in flight, Mexico, a still from recently found film made by William Rhein, p. And so, Fuller embarked on a new initiative—locating and researching photographs of lost birds and, expanding his scope, of mammals. And, in a strange way, it’s a book about hope. more than there really was to see!” (p.

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Animal Mammals Hawaii Dolphins 270

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2013

For birders, it’s the extremely large book, shelved in a place where it can’t crush the field guides, used to research the history of a bird in their area. Pileated Woodpecker, for example. A breeding bird atlas is a special kind of book. This map is limited to birds that meet the point-count criteria.)

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Pennsylvania Breeding Birds Sparrows 245

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

White article on bird feeding stations. And so, “Feeding Station Birds,” an article featuring Charley Harper’s first focus-on-the-birds illustrations, was published in the November 1954 issue of Ford Times. Starting in 1956, Harper wrote the text for the articles as well.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Fernandina’s Flicker, a tongue-twisting alliterative name for one of the most endangered woodpeckers in the world! This New York Times article summarizes the current status of travel to Cuba. Bee Hummingbird, the smallest hummingbird in the world! Cuban Black Hawk, split in 2007 from Common Black Hawk!

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Cuba Birds United States 2000 240

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The Crested Serpent-eagle is not a vulture, but that does not keep me from mentioning a recent Economist article here, “The sudden demise of Indian vultures killed thousands of people” And while this article is behind a paywall, the original research paper is not.

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Los Angeles Birds Woodpeckers Owls 208

10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2011

Jochen Mar 5th, 2011 at 11:34 am I am very proud to say that I studied biology with a focus on ornithology where Mayr did*, in Greifswald, and that I personally know Dorit Liebers and knew the late Andreas Helbig quite well who proved Mayr wrong (in an article Darren Naish’s excellent post was centered around).

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2011 Cyprus Species Deer 157

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

• Explore These Related Posts Windy Roads, Next 99 Miles – The Heavy Haul Through the Rockies Many Happy Returns to the Owl Research Institute Steller’s Jay – Mysteries of the Common Birds Clean and Healthful Winter Finch Wonderland.Or Well written article with some facts I didn’t know. Get yours today!

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Montana 2011 New York Bahamas 141

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2020

This is a delightful book, large (8-1/2 by 11 inches), filled with Sibley’s distinctive artwork and an organized potpourri of research-based stories about the science behind bird’s lives. copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley. As Sibley tells us in the Preface, he originally intended to write a children’s book.

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2020 Birds Groups North America 264

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Mack tells the story of how he set up a research station, and a life, in Papua New Guinea. Two books came out this year that combine stunning photographs, the kind you want to frame, with comprehensive research on birds. Mack (Cassowary Conservation and Publishing, 2014) for Birding. Books for Photograph Fans, Books for Learning.

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Papua New Guinea 2014 Penguins Birds 188

10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2018

As Jonathan Rosen says in his article on Passenger Pigeons and Greenberg’s book, to picture the Passenger Pigeon in a world of humans is to picture “the clash of two irreconcilable species with gargantuan needs.” I would dearly love to see an Ivory-billed Woodpecker, and I think our Carrie deserves to observe a Great Auk.

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Mauritius Stud Zoos Eggs 103

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

For my new book, due out in 2012 from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, I’ve been researching sandhill crane hunting. A Great Backyard Bird Count Miracle Best Bird of the Weekend (Last of January 2011) What is the International Bird Rescue Research Center Anyway? Or These Blasts From The Past What’s In A Name?

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 258

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2021

So, browse through the whole section of the bird family you’re researching to make sure you haven’t missed anything. (To Acorn Woodpeckers use both communal and cooperative breeding strategies which vary widely among family groups. Harris Hawks are monogamous and polyandrous and the female is the primary nest builder.

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Eggs Birds United States Sparrows 250

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2015

Picidae, Woodpecker, is one of those charismatic bird families that everybody gets excited about. Unless the woodpecker is drumming a hole into your garage, and then, well, it’s a different kind of excitement.) Woodpeckers of the World: A Photographic Guide is the first major guide to family Picidae in 20 years.

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Woodpeckers 2002 Europe Research 256

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 5, 2017

There are page references to and from the Species Accounts maps, which makes research transparently easy. Also, a search for one of the suspected extinct species, Ivory-billed Woodpecker, finds it in the main section. The wonder of research? All of which is to say, if in doubt, use the index!

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North America America 2017 Birds 188

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 30, 2023

’” My heart sinks a bit when I am looking for interesting information on a bird species to pass along with my photos, and the only articles I can find are either on the mitochondrial genome of the species (yes, we get it! And of course, some Chinese researchers worked on the complete mitochondrial genome of the Greater Coucal.

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Woodpeckers Birds Eggs India 229

10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2015

Last month woodpeckers, this month penguins. Science and Conservation , the second section, presents two-page summaries of the diverse research being done around the world about penguins. Some are cute, some are dignified (and royal!). On the positive side, penguins have evidenced survivor instincts for coping.

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