10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2020

Everyone is looking back on their best birds of 2019, so I thought it would be a good idea to look at a book that looks back a little further: Urban Ornithology: 150 Years of Birds in New York City , by P. Because, as this book demonstrates so well, it is sometimes important to look back in order to move forward. “Wait!”

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New York City New York Birds Breeding 145

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

For endangered species, red and gray tabs at the top of the page indicate level of threatened status from the IUCN and the Libro Rogo de los Vertebrados Cubanos (Red Data Book for Cuban Vertebrates). The book includes lots of space for Notes. This means that it has some interesting features, which may or may not work in practice.

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Cuba Birds United States 2000 223

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

Peter Matthiessen’s famous book Snow Leopard describes such an attempt that proved ultimately unsuccessful in his primary goal of glimpsing a Snow Leopard. Our Snow Leopard sat, quite Cheetah-like, before stalking off and once again rolling in the gravel, apparently an indication of the desire to mask its scent before a hunt.

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Snow Leopard Leopards Hunting Sheep 279

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2017

2) This is a NEW book edited by Lisa A. 4) It is a delightful, engaging book. It is a fact that the book fulfills the promise of its subtitle. This story of avian hatred may be the most revolutionary essay in a book full of paeans to birds and birding.). White and Jeffrey A. Gordon, illustrated by Robert A. Braunfield.

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2017 Costa Rica 2007 Hunters 132

10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2018

It is not a book for every birder, but it will be a fascinating read for those who love albatrosses, shearwaters, petrels, storm-petrels–you know, tubenoses–as well as penguins, gannets, cormorants, and pretty much every bird family that spends most of its life at sea. Bruce Pearson is the book illustrator.

Albatross 114

Albatross Penguins Research Breeding 114

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Aficionados of natural history writing should recognise the author as that of the Song of the Dodo , the popular science book about biogeography and conservation that to me rates as one the finest popular science books ever written. The book is about zoonoses, diseases that jump from animals to people.

Humane 160

Humane Animal Africa Ukraine 160

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2015

There is a long list of articles and books on how to feed birds in your yard. So, I was happy to see the publication of a book on all aspects of wild bird feeding—history, culture, and economics. It is a serious book with a friendly attitude. There was cleaning, lots of cleaning of feeders and yard. And squirrels.

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America Industry Squirrels Birds 221

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 213

North America Owls America Dominican Republic 213

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 2, 2014

So, when Redgannet asked me if I was interested in reviewing Phillipps’ Field Guide to the Birds of Borneo: Sabah, Sarawak, Brunei and Kalimantan, Third Edition , by Quentin Phillipps and Karen Phillipps, a book he had acquired at Birdfair, I hesitated. Did I dare dip my toe into this catalog of tantalizing species?

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Brunei Birds Asia China 172

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. Thus her story becomes “braided with two ecologies – the ornithological and the personal.”

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Barn Owls Owls Serbia Finland 113

10,000 Birds

APRIL 17, 2015

Young Scott put in yeoman’s work first identifying, then attempting to photograph the birds he stumbled across while hunting rabbits with a friend, and apparently his drive has stayed with him from that day to this. The book’s weaknesses are mainly in the organization of the text.

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Owls Colorado Wounded Rabbits 174

10,000 Birds

MAY 26, 2017

When I was a kid I loved books like My Side of the Mountain , Island of the Blue Dolphins , and Julie of the Wolves. Falcon Wild is a new book in that long tradition, and this one features a more realistic (though still very slightly romanticized) portrait of a human/animal partnership.

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Falcons Wolves Dolphins Montana 117

Critter News

OCTOBER 16, 2009

A new book by author and Stanford professor Shelly Fisher Fishkin reveals that Mark Twain was an early advocate against animal cruelty. Called Mark Twain's Book of Animals , the book contains a number of his writing about animals. The book also contains writings by Twain against vivisection. Interesting.

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Animal Cruelty Cruelty Vivisection Buffalo 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2021

There is a mushroom hunting expedition in Anna Karenina, Tolstoy’s use of a popular Russian pastime. The locator key section in the front of the book summarizes the shared characteristics of each mushroom type. The Fleshy Gilled Mushrooms (Agarics) section, 230 pages long, takes up over half the book. ” (p.

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North America America Species 2018 245

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2015

Dominic Couzens is a prolific writer who has published tens of books on birds and birding in addition to his magazine work, but Tales of Remarkable Birds is the first of his titles that I have read. In short, this book is pitched solidly at the mid-level birder. Reviews Bird Behavior book review cassowary'

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Birds Morals Hunting Sparrows 183

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.

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Lions Hunting Sierra Leone Buffalo 200

10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2013

Now, on to the books. The cover designs, like the parent book, are cheerily colorful; the Eastern guide is green, featuring a photo of a Rose-breasted Grosbeak, the Western guide is blue, featuring a White Pelican just landing onto the water. A detailed index is located at the back of the book, listing scientific and common bird names.

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Birds North America Groups Falcons 152

10,000 Birds

APRIL 8, 2019

So, yes, there’s plenty enough information about migration in the book to justify the subtitle. As he points out, his beloved Magee Marsh would never have been preserved, or saved from development, had it not been home, at one time, to a duck-hunting club, which later transferred the land to the state of Ohio. by Kenn Kaufman.

Ohio 192

Ohio Bats Legislature Ducks 192

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.

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Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 199

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. I’ve seen this bird hunting, actively denuding dead branches in pursuit of what lies beneath.

Trinidad 173

Trinidad Laws Family Hunting 173

10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 2019

While the hunting of game with trained birds of prey can be a controversial topic among birders , falconry was a valuable early source of information on birds, and its history, culture, and imagery continue to fascinate bird lovers, as we shall see. During the hunt, Mary’s horse lost its footing, throwing her from the saddle into a ditch.

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Hunting France Falcons Horses 113

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.

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Falcons United Kingdom Zimbabwe Eggs 198

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

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Indonesia Timor Brunei Guinea 263

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.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Emotional Woodpeckers Hunting 247

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2023

In retrospect, it kind of makes me wonder what image the organizers who booked the hotel for me had of German academic visitors … So much for my quasi-madeleine moment, though of course less emotionally attractive than the one described by Mr. Proust. of its hunts are successful. Back to birds. Then, there are raptors.

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Birds Eagles Elephants Rhinoceros 205

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

” Most shrugged and said very few US falconers fly owls because they’re slow and some species you can only hunt at night, that wouldn’t be much fun to watch. If anything, falconry birds like the above red-tailed hawk are a hunting partner, especially wild caught birds. I learned that I knew nothing of falconry.

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Wisconsin Falcons Owls Hunting 234

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.

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2020 Birds Groups North America 262

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

This non-technical book is a development from a series of lectures, tried and tested in numerous adult education courses given to non-specialists. What I mostly look for in this book is how to understand those behaviours, how to interpret them. At some stage, a salmon-hunting bear at a shingle beach came too close, mere 9 steps.

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Animal Bears Stray Dog Blackbirds 114

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

In this captivating book, Thompson explores the motivation behind hunters who shot birds to sell feathers for women’s hats at the turn of the nineteenth century. All in all, I liked Thompson’s book, and am delighted to recommend it to birders and non-birders, alike. What compelled these men, beyond desire for money, to kill birds?

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Hunters Oregon San Francisco Portland 189

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?

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2016 Birds Farming Hunting 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2021

His second book on migration is a tale of many birds and many research studies all connected by the theme of migration and by his thoughtful narrative voice. The book is organized into ten chapters, framed by a Prologue and Epilogue focused on Weidensaul’s banding experience in Denali National Park.

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Cyprus Slaughter Slaughtered Research 243

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2024

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. The scientific species name of the Rusty-naped Pitta oatesi honors Eugene William Oates (1845-1911), an English civil servant in India and naturalist.

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Burma India Birds Indonesia 188

10,000 Birds

MAY 12, 2020

The most recent report was issued in December 2019 and it used data from the 2016 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation. Books : There are two birding essentials, binoculars and a field guide. The number of copies of a book sold is hard to ascertain, as publishers consider sales proprietary.

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2016 North America 2020 2019 257

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. For being a feminist with an opinion on comic books, or games. Often just for being a woman (its telling how many of these “outrages” about hunting involve women, not men.

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Hunters Hunting Animal Cruelty Game 167

10,000 Birds

APRIL 27, 2022

Today, Barn Owls can be found across both islands, hunting open fields at twilight or comfortably resting in abandoned relics of the sugar cane industry. I also mentioned that I thought this was the only resident owl left for me to see – books reflect this but in 2018 a young herpetologist spotted a large, dark owl while out one night.

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Trinidad Owls Barn Owls Abandon 268

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Developed in the post-frontier era, the NAMWC helped put a stop to wanton wildlife destruction in an era where many species were being hunted and trapped ruthlessly to the brink of extinction. George Wuerthner, an ecologist and former hunting guide with a degree in wildlife biology, takes the debate a step further.

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Wildlife Coyotes Hunters Wolves 231

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Yet, one other hunting attempt in the same area I do remember. The next memorable hunt came from winter 2006/07. If birders are a tribe, as Mark Cocker suggested in his book, they are a part of our tribal memories. The year was 1996 and it must have been quite a sight – if I only could remember it! And, now, at eBird.

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Serbia 2004 Eagles Chickens 241