10,000 Birds
APRIL 2, 2024
A lot of this material is in her earlier book, Condors in Canyon Country, published by the Grand Canyon Association in 2007, now out-of-print (though available used). My only wish is that the book included photographs. I’d love to read a book about your adventures in Guatemala studying Yellow-naped Amazons, Sophie!)
10,000 Birds
JUNE 3, 2014
One of the reasons I enjoy about reviewing books is the opportunity to read titles I wouldn’t ordinarily encounter, not because they aren’t good but because they don’t fall easily into a category. Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record by Errol Fuller is one of these books. ouli, and Mamo (also known as Hawaii Mamo).
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10,000 Birds
MAY 5, 2020
That was the fourth edition, dated 1980, and I didn’t realize at the time that we were getting the books for free because the fifth edition had just been published. (I Plus, in a major expansion, the birds of Hawaii, the most recent geographical addition to the American Birding Association Checklist.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 6, 2012
trying to grasp the enormity of what had just happened, and reading this book, The Feathery Tribe: Robert Ridgway and the Modern Study of Birds by Daniel Lewis. Reading this book is, in addition to everything else, an exercise in getting to know the originals of many of our apostrophized birds.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 1, 2021
The Pough & Eckelberry guides (add in artist Earl L Poole who did black-and-white drawings for the later titles) were notable for Pough’s discursive text and Eckelberry’s lovely painted portraits, and many older birders have stories about how they were inspired by these books. This is a fairly large book: 907 pages; 7.38
10,000 Birds
MAY 11, 2016
Something of the same sort may be in the works for Hawaii, with scientists considering unprecedented measures for the best of reasons. In the meantime, you might want to book a trip to Hawaii to see ‘i’wi while you still can. The law of unintended consequences, etc.) island chain was mosquito-free until 1826.
10,000 Birds
JULY 4, 2014
Then you’ll want to check out this new book. In a nod to Dr. Evil, a utility company in Hawaii is using lasers to keep birds from its wires and poles. Also in Australia, Bell Miner Birds may be damaging forests. Eurasian Blackbirds living in cities have learned to keep their cool, compared with rural birds. Planning on birding Kenya?
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