10,000 Birds
JULY 4, 2023
How much do you know about owls? I’ve been fortunate to encounter many owls in my birding life, sometimes because I’m looking for them, sometimes happily by happenstance. What the Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds is a joyous, fascinating read. I don’t think so.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 9, 2023
The 1st edition from 1999 was a complete revolution in just about everything, but predominantly the quality and realism of illustrations, showing what a field guide could be and seriously raising the threshold for other publishers. Another development could be a compact edition, like that new guide for Australia?
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 4, 2011
First published in November of 1843 the tale of a baby swan, or cygnet, being raised among ducks strikes a chord with many people, but in Denmark the works of Hans Christian Andersen bring feelings of national pride. Corey Mar 5th, 2011 at 7:28 am @Clare: Does Australia have a national bird for the whole country? Wicked, right?
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 10, 2014
This attractive relative of Australia’s Maned Duck is the most common duck you’ll see on the tour, but visitors always love seeing them and their ubiquity doesn’t detract from their attractiveness. Laughing Owl. And birders familiar with Australia will certainly recognize the local race of the Brown Goshawk.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 13, 2014
We miss them all: the parrots, the pigeons, the moas and titan-hawks and stilt-owls and myriads of endlessly exotic avifauna we will never ever know again as they were when they graced this Earth. The prehistoric extinctions most famously include the megafaunal assemblages of Europe, the Americas, Australia and Madagascar.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 9, 2011
Palm Warblers in Central Park Answers to A Diabolical Quick Quiz Cow Birds About the Author Jochen Jochen Roeder was born in Germany and raised to be a birder. Clare and Grant-Broome Western Australia Mar 10th, 2011 at 4:42 am I thought we were just doing “gulls and ducks&# now and if I want I can throw something else in each week!
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 28, 2015
This of course raises questions of what happens when all of the inland nesting grounds of all the loons becomes covered with glacial ice during ice ages, then later, the ice melts and the lakes return. Painted Buntings and nesting owls, Black-headed Gulls and mystery empids. Clare went a chose a first for Australia.
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