10,000 Birds
JULY 5, 2022
Don’t misunderstand me, it’s not consciously presented this way, but as I read the book, I really did feel that Klem was writing as he talks, putting into text the many presentations he has done over the years. Dead birds are a part of the life of a birder, a feeder of birds, and of bird science.
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. It turned out, many people. million people in the U.S. in 2011*) came about.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 7, 2019
But, sometimes an appreciation of birds and birding requires more than a reference book with images of birds and facts about their identifying field marks. There are large avian handbooks and small ‘how-to bird’ guides, and quite a few excellent books of both types have been published. And, each essay tells a story.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 22, 2019
It’s a matter of personal preference: neither does every reader like, say, science fiction, or the writing of Henry James, or romance novels. In Cranes , the reader meets, for the first time, Roy Ducannon, a Canadian RCMP sergeant who has a cool but respectful relationship with his brother-in-law, Jejeune. Fair enough.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 17, 2014
But the tenets of the North American Model were developed in the 19th century, when wildlife ethics and science were a mere glimmer of what we understand today. Dr. David Lavigne, Science Advisor to the International Fund for Animal Welfare, co-authored Gaining Ground: In Pursuit of Ecological Sustainability 5.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 15, 2013
The single greatest challenge facing any book of science writing is balance. Otherwise, there would be no science writing, everyone would just go straight to the journals. Nothing keeps a human reader more engaged than a genuine character, and the birds here are exactly that. Pinyon Jay by Dave Menke of the US FWS.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 28, 2015
My Best Bird of the Year for 2015 has to be the Temminck’s Stint , because although it was not the most colourful bird that I saw this year it will go into the record books as a “first for Australia”! At least she contributed to science… My Best Bird of the Year was a Snowy Plover , which I first spotted along the Florida Panhandle.
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