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. Hummingbird species, on the other hand, number in the hundreds. Jonas D’Abronzo.

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Costa Rica Brazil Ecuador Bolivia 264

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2020

The book covers 77 species; 105 taxa (species and subspecies): 45 Birds of Paradise species, 4 species formerly classified as Birds of Paradise (Satinbirds and MacGregor’s Honeyeater), and 28 Bowerbird species.* Introduction. It is, he says, “probably the most extreme examples of sexual dimorphism” (p.

Guinea 263

Guinea Birds Papua New Guinea Family 263

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

One of these clades holds a diversity of Old World species in several distinct groups, including an Australasian clade, the green-pigeons, the emerald- and wood-doves, the imperial-pigeons and fruit-doves (favorites of mine), and the subjects of our investigation today, the 15 known members of the Raphini. ” Beehler et al.’s

Solomon Islands 275

Solomon Islands Guinea Mauritius Humane 275

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2014

In trying to find further evidence of the warbler’s behaviour and the sapsucker’s lifestyle, I found numerous mentions of Rufous Hummingbirds and “other species” coming to feed from sap wells. Thus I bring you, the story of the Red-breasted Sapsucker and the Townsend’s Warbler.

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San Francisco Maryland Jordan Lifestyle 178

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

And, to give his dream year a little more oomph, he created a grand once-in-a-lifetime goal: to track down and see every pitta species in the world in one year. 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. And sun bears. And leeches.

Hunters 192

Hunters Sri Lanka Asia Solomon Islands 192

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

She doesn’t know the species till it emerges, almost dreamlike, from the heavy glare of the sun. There is also a third element, only hinted at in the opening–the environmental and scientific necessity of gathering this data to document the importance of keeping the Pacific Northwest waters healthy and uncontaminated by human elements.

Fox 100

Fox Albatross Geese Bald Eagle 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 30, 2020

are up next, with a wonderful Australian species: It is very hard to choose a Best Bird of the Year any year. The male of this species has a royal blue throat, a white chest and rump, and a long v-shaped tail with intermittent white patches that makes it looks like part of it are floating in space. Clare (and Grant!) Preposterous!

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2020 Birds Germany Costa Rica 231

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2019

Possibly the first documentation of a ship-assisted bird in history, undoubtedly sailing off the edge of the world. The Vatican edition of De arte venandi cum avibus contains over 660 outstanding manuscript illuminations depicting every aspect of the practice of falconry in exquisite detail – and at least 80 different species of birds.

2015 113

2015 Italy Falcons Europe 113

Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 24, 2006

They belong to the canine species Nyctereutes procyonoides. But when HSUS purchased several of these jackets, the jackets arrived bearing the labels "Made in China" and "genuine raccoon fur." 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

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Ever the moral perfectionist, Franklin argued that the turkey was a much more honorable and determined fowl, and suggested the bird – as an “original Native of America” – would make a decidedly more fitting avian mascot for the United States (seemingly implying – incorrectly – that the Bald Eagle is not an indigenous New World species).

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2017 Bald Eagle United States Turkey 151