10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2021

The first guide bearing the National Audubon Society imprint was Audubon Bird Guide; Eastern Land Birds , written by Richard Hooper Pough, and illustrated by Don Eckelberry. Using the icons to locate specific bird families takes a little getting used to, but if you do it often it works well as a finding tool.

North America 278

North America America Birds California Condor 278

10,000 Birds

JUNE 25, 2019

That fallacious family name seems to have encouraged all manner of knaves, dunderheads, and miscreants when time came to label species. North American warblers, on the other hand, often bear names of, at best, marginal utility. Appropriate appellations should respect the birds, not 19th century naturalists and their friends and family.

Rights 113

Rights Connecticut Tennessee Nashville 113

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2016

Am I willing to give up the field guide which bears the mud and dirt of so many falls on so many birding trips? And, that falcons are about as far away from hawks as a bird family could get. The group pages show how much the taxonomy of certain bird families has changed over the past 13 years. ” Thank you, David Sibley!

North America 152

North America 2003 Birds America 152

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2020

It’s the bird family that most people don’t know is a bird family. I didn’t know much about Birds of Paradise either before 2013, when I accompanied a non-birding friend to a presentation at a local college, not really expecting much. Like Antpittas and Gnateaters by Harold F. Introduction.

Guinea 260

Guinea Birds Papua New Guinea Family 260

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Stamper presents a compelling argument that the time between the 10th (1993) and 11th (2003) editions of the Collegiate was barely enough time to methodically wade through mountains of material in the English language to: (1) add new words, and (2) update all of the definitions of existing words. (In 1843, G & C Merriam Co.

Albatross 103

Albatross Bears Ducks Bald Eagle 103

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2018

Late last year we decided to meet up with my sister and her family in Western Australia and we reached an agreement that they would fly to Perth from Sydney during the school holidays in January. A family of Buff-banded Rails escaped into the vegetation ahead of us and they must have arrived with the first of the rains to breed.

Australia 100

Australia 2018 Family Industry 100