10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

Holt and his staff, several of which are also ‘characters’ in the book, do hard-core field work, finding owls, owl nests, documenting them and working with concerned and unconcerned organizations to inform public policy decision-making. Humans were drawing owls 36,000 years ago, as Ackerman points out!

Owls 203

Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 203

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2021

In 2012, I reviewed The Jewel Hunter , an absorbing narrative in which author Chris Goodie travelled throughout Asia, Africa, and Australasia to observe and photograph every Pitta species in the world. It provides goals and a definite direction for your birding travels and thoughts; sometimes it even becomes the basis of a book!

Costa Rica 264

Costa Rica Brazil Ecuador Bolivia 264

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 20, 2013

Asia is home to all kinds of cuckoos, but none are as elaborately colorful as malkohas with those gaudy faces and painted bills. Con is a master at his craft and an uncanny resource on the birds of Singapore, Malaysia, and much of Asia. Con wanted to document the only time he’d ever seen a fruiting tree.

Malaysia 171

Malaysia Singapore Monkeys Birds 171

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

I get my own idea of the lunacy of Gooddie’s quest when I talk to a friend who has birded Asia and Africa. Beer looms large in Gooddie’s daily routine, and much text is devoted to finding beer in the middle of rural Asia and evaluating its quality. I’m reading a book about a man who is doing a Pitta Big Year,” I say.

Hunters 188

Hunters Sri Lanka Asia Solomon Islands 188

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2020

The material is meticulously documented with citations of monographs by Clifford and Dawn Frith and Bruce Beehler plus additional research papers and materials. Plate 36: Genus Chlamydera 1; illustration copyright © Richard Allen, text copyright © Phil Gregory.

Guinea 261

Guinea Birds Papua New Guinea Family 261

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2018

And, then there is a Hybrid Gulls chapter, covering five well-documented hybrids. Each individual Species Account begins with common name, scientific name, and measurements (sourced from Howell and Dunn’s Gulls of the Americas and Olsen and Larsen’s Gulls of North America, Europe, and Asia ). ”).

North America 195

North America America El Salvador Nicaragua 195

10,000 Birds

JUNE 30, 2012

Dendrocopos leucotos is absent from western Europe but is found in northern, central, and eastern Europe and across Asia as far east as Japan and Korea. Honestly, I was more concerned with looking than with documenting. The White-backed Woodpecker is the hardest resident woodpecker to find in Europe.

Woodpeckers 175

Woodpeckers Hungary Europe Japan 175

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2015

And, he did, trekking to remote areas of Asia, Africa, and Australia, often on his own, always on the lookout for a good beer. Brit birder Goodie didn’t do an ordinary big year; he decided he would see every Pitta species in the world (32 at the time) in one year.

Papua New Guinea 178

Papua New Guinea 2014 Penguins Birds 178

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 19, 2023

It is an impressive bird (for a prinia – these birds are not usually very flashy) – eBird calls the species a “large, fierce-eyed prinia with a long, oft-cocked tail” There even is a separate document just on the vocalization of the Hill Prinia, if you are interested (frankly, I am not).

China 197

China Birds Burma Afghanistan 197

10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2014

New species that were documented from Fall 2011 through Summer 2012 are listed in one of the appendices. The authors set June/July 2011 as the cut-off date, and were able to add noteworthy records up to November 2012, the date the manuscript was sent to the publisher.

North America 249

North America America Birds United States 249

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 3, 2013

There is a Linnet at Kissena Corridor Park in Queens, and though I bird this park regularly, the Linnet, a bird regularly found in Europe, Asia, and North Africa and also named in a sweet song by Stephen Sondheim (Green Finch and Linnet Bird from Sweeny Todd) has eluded me. I needed a book showing a Linnet.

Ireland 170

Ireland 2013 Breeders Ducks 170

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

1997), and Gulls of Europe, Asia and North America (Helm, 2004). Born in Gambia, raised and living in Sweden , Larsson illustrated three major guides before this one, all authored by Klaus Malling Olsen: Terns of Europe and North America (PUP, rev. 1995), Skuas and Jaegers (Yale Univ. It’s an incredible book.

Albatross 278

Albatross Penguins Groups Family 278

Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 24, 2006

According to this Associated Press story, if you are wearing a Sean John jacket with fur trim purchased from Macy's, that trim might have come from a dog indigenous to Asia known as a "raccoon dog." For a detailed and photo-documented description of how these highly intelligent, highly sensitive dogs are killed, see here.

Fur 40

Fur Fur Industry HSUS Raccoons 40