10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2020

It’s the bird family that most people don’t know is a bird family. For many years it was thought the two bird families were related taxonomically. Like Antpittas and Gnateaters by Harold F. Introduction. Images of typical display poses are included for many of the birds of paradise.

Guinea 260

Guinea Birds Papua New Guinea Family 260

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

It’s my fantasy and it’s yours: Quit the job, say good-bye to the family, and bird. I get my own idea of the lunacy of Gooddie’s quest when I talk to a friend who has birded Asia and Africa. 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.

Hunters 187

Hunters Sri Lanka Asia Solomon Islands 187

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 20, 2013

We got good looks at Yellow-breasted , Crimson-breasted , Yellow-vented , and Orange-bellied Flowerpeckers along with more mundane representatives of the sunbird family, Plain Sunbird and Thick-billed Spiderhunter. Asia is home to all kinds of cuckoos, but none are as elaborately colorful as malkohas with those gaudy faces and painted bills.

Malaysia 170

Malaysia Singapore Monkeys Birds 170

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 193

North America America El Salvador Nicaragua 193

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. This is also a good time to catch up on supplementary titles, such as guides to bird families. I think of The Jewel Hunter often when I travel to foreign countries, wishing I could do it like Goodie did.

Papua New Guinea 177

Papua New Guinea 2014 Penguins Birds 177

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 194

China Birds Burma Afghanistan 194

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

It covers 434 species across 9 orders and 18 families of birds. Other families are more complicated and these introductory sections are correspondingly longer and amazingly more detailed. Although Harrison did all the artwork for the 1983 title, he enlisted artist Hans Larsson for terns, gulls, and skimmers–the Laridae family.

Albatross 278

Albatross Penguins Groups Family 278

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