10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 6, 2015

I could go on and on, it’s that kind of a book—a comprehensive treatment of a species we respect and adore, based on the most current research, written in a style that, while factual, is from the author’s viewpoint, flavoring facts with a witty, observant personal quality. Scott Weidensaul is a nature writer with roots in journalism.

North America 214

North America Owls America Dominican Republic 214

10,000 Birds

APRIL 14, 2023

She starts with the Barn Owl, and proceeds in her book, one owl per chapter, usually informed by an expert guide of some sort, such as Luke, an officer in Britain’s Barn Owl Trust. An Englishwoman, she thought, originally, that she would stay within the British Isles, to see the five or six native species.

Barn Owls 113

Barn Owls Owls Serbia Finland 113

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

If anyone else had this book growing up you’d be well aware of how its pages were the equivalent of the unending scrolling on Facebook. But this book taught me about eagles, owls, storks and herons. Very soon, the other members of this unique family were on my radar. Streak-headed Woodcreeper.

Trinidad 173

Trinidad Laws Family Hunting 173

10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2021

There is a mushroom hunting expedition in Anna Karenina, Tolstoy’s use of a popular Russian pastime. The guide has been expertly, even lovingly revised, expanded and updated (as the authors’ names indicate, this is largely a family affair). McKnight and Vera B. McKnight published in 1987. ” (p.

North America 246

North America America Species 2018 246

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2024

This is the home of the Rusty-naped Pitta , admittedly one of the less glamorous of the family, particularly the subspecies found in Yunnan, but still a nice sight and still a pitta. He published a number of books on birds of India and Burma, making me wonder how hard all these overseas civil servants really worked in their day jobs.

Burma 189

Burma India Birds Indonesia 189

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 12, 2015

I get that you’re really angry, I mean, he was a popular lion and yes, his cute widdle cubs will probably die to, but I can’t help feeling you’ve kind of missed the point a bit, and well, ending all hunting in Africa will not solve much and maybe make things worse and… No, no, I’m not a hunter. I’m sorry.

Lions 201

Lions Hunting Sierra Leone Buffalo 201

10,000 Birds

APRIL 22, 2021

Rheindt is a big book. Or should I say a great book? The main conservation issues are habitat loss, hunting and wildlife trade. “Birds of the Indonesian Archipelago: Greater Sundas and Wallacea” by James A. Eaton, Bas van Balen, Nick W. Brickle and Frank E. Its dimensions are 16 × 23 cm / 6.3

Indonesia 263

Indonesia Timor Brunei Guinea 263

10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2016

As we put another July weekend in the book, so to speak, we should consider the difference between relative and absolute time. But if I have to pick a living bird, American Kestrels hunting along farm roads always work for me. If you’re panicking too, stay calm and enjoy yourself. Pretty swanky, right?

2016 100

2016 Birds Farming Hunting 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 30, 2012

So a book about birds by Julie Zickefoose, featuring her writing and art, some of which has been featured in different forms on her blog, is guaranteed to be a hit with me. First of all, the 384-page book is beautiful from hardcover to hardcover, literally. But her writing is not the dry text of a biology book or scientific paper.

Wildlife Rehabilitation 248

Wildlife Rehabilitation Emotional Woodpeckers Hunting 248

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 5, 2015

Another day, another dead lion erupting in the world’s media, another opportunity for me to annoy my few remaining anti-hunting friends. Is it fair her life was destroyed because hers was public and mine was among family a decade ago? For being a feminist with an opinion on comic books, or games. Go read his take.

Hunters 167

Hunters Hunting Animal Cruelty Game 167

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

Ackerman’s new book is about owls and owl research–the knowledge recently and currently being discovered through DNA analysis, new-tech tracking and monitoring, and old-fashioned fieldwork under the auspices of organizations like the Global Owl Project and the Owl Research Institute. .” They are also hunted.

Owls 200

Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 200

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2020

Fortunately, with a prescience that’s a little scary, David Allen Sibley has created a book perfect for beginning birders (and the rest of us): What It’s Like to Be a Bird: From Flying to Nesting, Eating to Singing–What Birds Are Doing, and Why. copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley. copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley.

2020 262

2020 Birds Groups North America 262

10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2020

It didn’t occur to me till I started reading The Falcon Thief: A True Tale of Adventure, Treachery, and the Hunt for the Perfect Bird that there was also a possible threat to the eagle herself: poachers, who steal raptor eggs and chicks. 2019), and now this book. The book is structured cinematically. Author Joshua Hammer.

Falcons 200

Falcons United Kingdom Zimbabwe Eggs 200

10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2012

Among the Efe (Pygmy) people that I lived with in the 1980s, the young men would in fact disappear from the bosom of their families and spend a lot of time, perhaps months, living on their own in the forest. And in those days there were bird books with pictures in them. And now, the number of bird books is approximately one gazillion.

Birds 168

Birds Collecting Rodents Wounded 168

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2019

Gyrfalcons have long been prized for their ability to hunt prey considerably larger than themselves, as depicted in this painting by Louis Agassiz Fuertes, where the unlucky victim is a Gray Heron (note the jesses on the falcon). Exactly why the name Grifalco was chosen by this Basilicatan winemaker is unknown.

2016 100

2016 Iceland Falcons Europe 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2017

You might think it would have been no big deal to take off to the Adirondacks for a day chasing a rare gull a couple of days before leaving your family for a week while you gallivant around Austria but you probably live alone and will continue to do so. I, on the other hand, enjoy living with my family and would like to keep doing that.

New York 101

New York Owls Beavers Puerto Rico 101

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2020

Which leads to a topic I’ve wanted to write about for a while–books that guide us in an exploration of nature. Her children’s books–which include the charming Mama Build a Little Nest , other picture books, and chapter books–evince an easy familiarity with birds, their science and birding ethics.

Los Angeles 262

Los Angeles 2019 Birds 2014 262

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

… Tags: ducks , features , jamaica bay , migration , queens • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! Hes only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasnt working as a union representative or spending time with his family. Thanks for visiting!

Ducks 168

Ducks 2011 Jamaica New York 168

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

The USA’s only truly indigenous parrot was wiped out by a combination of factors, although direct persecution through hunting seems to have been the major contributor. Well-represented exotic families include starlings, ducks and doves and there are also many more individual species that now thrive here.

Miami 130

Miami Parrots Research Birds 130

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Thankfully, as the authors note, this focus on animals to hunt has given way to visitors’ fascination with a range of creatures.). There is also a narrative write-up for each species that recounts interesting behavior, family issues, unique biological facts, the animal’s status in Kruger, and notable conservation issues.

Rhinos 233

Rhinos Mammals Animal White Rhinos 233

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Joining us for the day was Sheri Williamson, who literally wrote the book on hummingbirds in North America. The hunt was on in earnest. This one was not an individual you’d mistake for a pure bird by any means, as it mostly resembled the Black-chinned side of the family in size and structure. The last missing piece.

Arizona 158

Arizona Wounded North America 2012 158

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 18, 2018

I love the challenge of “the hunt” and the satisfaction of the find but I also have the ones I want to see the most, my biggest targets if you will. We see lifers on labels, in memes, and in art books over and over and it’s a reminder that they exist, they are waiting, that you have to go see them.

Costa Rica 101

Costa Rica Bald Eagle Eagles Birds 101

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Birds / Sandhill Crane Hunt in Kentucky?! Sandhill Crane Hunt in Kentucky?! Tomorrow, MARCH 15, 2011, is the deadline for public comment on a proposal to hunt sandhill cranes in Kentucky. Kentucky Dept.

2011 239

2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 239

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Working in an area for which there are few official checklists, no governing taxonomic body, and much new information on species relationships coming in, the authors were faced with a multitude of questions about family sequence, genus arrangements, English common names, and species taxonomy. Co-author Frank E. Species Accounts.

Indonesia 121

Indonesia Brunei Birds Malaysia 121

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The Plain Sunbird is the plain vanilla version of the otherwise often very colorful family (ok, a very low-budget sort of joke). His somewhat dubious claim to fame includes a book describing his trip to New Guinea despite the fact that he never actually got to the mainland area of New Guinea ( source ).

Los Angeles 176

Los Angeles Birds Woodpeckers Owls 176

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

With the proposed hunting seasons on sandhill cranes being discussed in Tennessee, Kentucky and Wisconsin, we must not forget the whooping crane, which travels and winters in the big sandhill crane flocks. More states will doubtless join the queue of those proposing hunts. Another thing to consider. Now, it’s time to go to the top.

2011 239

2011 Hunting Kentucky Hunters 239

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2014

I had never heard of a seedcracker until two minutes ago when I went looking through a newish book to find a type of bird I hadn’t heard of before, and that took me less than two minutes. (It’s Pardalotes are actually their own family, and a family entirely endemic to Australia. It’s a type of estrelidid finch.

Australia 170

Australia Fiji Hunters Family 170

Animal Person

OCTOBER 26, 2009

The good news is that if you know someone who needs to be schooled on all of the sordid details of factory farming, and appreciates good writing, this is a great book. Also, if, like me, you know someone who appreciates the things we do with language to mask the reality of our behavior, this is a great book. Not great, but good.

Factory Farm 100

Factory Farm Factory Farming Animal Vegan 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

Recapping the quiz … I recently purchased a new book on birds and used it as the single source for this week’s quiz. The book is from 2005 called “Identify Yourself, The 50 Most Common Birding Identification Challenges”. Showing a huge amount of faith, I closed my eyes and opened the book. Thanks for visiting!

2011 140

2011 New York Deer Owls 140

10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2024

He also wrote some books on Burma, one of which (“A Civil Servant in Burma”) Wikipedia calls a classic. The species is also hunted for local consumption in Meghalaya (India), according to the HBW. The site states that in captivity, “two hens can be paired with one male.”

Burma 181

Burma Birds Vietnam Laos 181

10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2011

Eagerly I wished the morrow; – vainly I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow – sorrow for the lost Lenore - For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels named Lenore - Nameless here for evermore. Spring is the perfect season to take this book for a spin!

2011 239

2011 Fowl Deer Cats 239

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 27, 2013

This bird is known from only a dozen localities, with only a handful of individuals and a very fragmented habitat, hence the critically endangered status in the Red Book (one of 198 such species – also my fifth). Forest Owlet by Dragan Simic. Nate’s best was also a rarity in India. What are the odds? Sociable Lapwing.

2013 167

2013 Birds Costa Rica India 167

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 5, 2011

One gets the impression that Theodore Roosevelt would have had Dawson’s books in his library, and would have nodded approvingly at the descriptions of rare birds (with a mind to take a gun and make them rarer no doubt). “ Call him a ghoul, rather, for the Western gull is cruel of beak and bottomless of maw.

Breeding 173

Breeding Collecting California Hunting 173

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2024

The preface to the book reads like he would nowadays be regarded as a lumper, not a splitter: “Man hat es mir von verschiedenen Seiten her zum Vorwurf machen wollen, dass ich bei der systematischen Einteilung meiner Voegel im vorliegenden Werke nicht den neueren Naturphilosophen gefolgt sei. . –

Birds 180

Birds Research Science Europe 180

10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2015

Back home I meticulously planned the perfect birding route based on our explorations, made the bookings and confirmed the first commercial birding tour to Ghana. Blue-moustached Bee-eater is rainforest species occurring in just a few scattered sites in Ghana, it was previously considered a subspecies of Blue-headed Bee-eater.

Ghana 188

Ghana Hunters Guinea Gambia 188

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

While the HBW describes the bulbul family as “often rather plain”, I find them usually quite attractive, though in an understated way that may not appeal to the flashiness-seeking HBW authors. The Black Drongo is a very common member of the family. Talking about the latest book releases. Courtship feeding.

Birds 173

Birds Woodpeckers Kangaroos Madagascar 173

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2019

For me, it’s one of the most exciting days of the year, and so I’m going to put aside the book review I’ve been crafting and talk about my favorite, best, top ten birds of 2018 (with a personal addition at the end). In the meantime, it’s a good topic for holiday family gatherings. Gray Kingbird, Jones Beach, NYS.

2018 149

2018 New Jersey Michigan North Dakota 149