10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 14, 2018

This year, a few months after my fortieth birthday, when I saw a Blue Jay in West Glacier Montana I felt only a small bit of surprise – it was an uncommon bird but no longer really extralimital as a wintering species. But shifting baseline syndrome doesn’t just apply to things that have become diminished.

New York Times 140

New York Times Montana Oregon Deer 140

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. Pough “with illustrations in color of every species” by Don Eckelberry, Doubleday, 1946. The grand total is 817 species! SPECIES ACCOUNTS.

North America 279

North America America Birds California Condor 279

Animal Ethics

JANUARY 9, 2008

To the Editor: Re “ Bearing Up ” (Op-Ed, Jan. Sarah Palin of Alaska, the scientific literature is very clear that polar bear survival is highly threatened in the wild. Because polar bears are at the top of the marine food chain, their bodies accumulate persistent organic pollutants that disrupt their reproductive systems.

New York Times 40

New York Times Polar Bears New York Bears 40

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

The field site I am assigned to is located in one of the most diverse ecosystems in the world and home to a particularly rich avifauna that numbers well over 500 species. Photo copyright Tim Ryan The time is now just shy of 5:00 am and what I behold in front of me is considered one of the great spectacles of the natural world.

Peru 255

Peru Parrots 2011 Research Center 255

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2017

The book has garnered positive reviews in publications such as the New York Times , The Atlantic , and The New Yorker. Many individual species get an entry too, though they are generally not capitalized. Larger feathers consist of a shaft (rachis) bearing branches (barbs) which bear smaller branches (barbules).

Albatross 106

Albatross Bears Ducks Bald Eagle 106

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2011

Dawn Fine Mar 15th, 2011 at 3:50 pm NO Comment YourBirdOasis.com Mar 15th, 2011 at 10:07 pm Yeah, polygynandry is really weird…what other species have this breeding system? Might I assume that women typically bear fewer children, or fewer survive? Davies et al. Ecological causes and reproductive conflicts. You disgust me.

2011 222

2011 Breeders Breeding Deer 222

10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2011

Informed literature bears out my experience that most birds are seen singly or in pairs. Sondra Mar 11th, 2011 at 8:54 am WOW do you think the filaments are an evolutionary thing.maybe it was a bird of paradise at one time? Very interesting species. The former British colony’s Z.c. Married to a Canon? That I understand!

2011 193

2011 Deer India New York 193