10,000 Birds

MAY 13, 2024

Anyway, having read far too many books on the Vietnam War in my younger days, there was a certain fascination in starting birding in Vietnam – though I had been in the country more than 20 years ago when the place in some way was much more interesting (i.e., no Starbucks anywhere, no easy cab hire via Grab, no cash machines, etc.).

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Vietnam Zebras Birds Sparrows 176

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 154

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

.” And, if you don’t believe them, just take a look at some of the photographic comparisons of species they present: Or, of albatross plumages: Or, read about the taxonomic confusions and scientific lapses in research on petrels, Albatrosses, storm-petrels, and diving-petrels. And, if you have resources for travel.

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Albatross North America Birds Groups 164

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

This is the book you will want to give to everyone in your life who has said ‘I’d like to bird too, but ….(fill Not only is Nate a birding and blogging colleague, but Mike Bergin, 10,000 Birds co-publisher, has written the Foreword and I have been threatened with all sorts of birder-type punishment if I give this book a bad review.

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Birds North Carolina North America Owls 263

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2020

” The book in question is Birds of Bolivia: Field Guide , edited and written by Sebastian K. The guide covers 1,433 species, the number of birds documented at the end of 2014, the cutoff point for the book. The downside of the size (and quality of paper) is that this is a fairly heavy book, about 2.5

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Bolivia Birds Brazil Switzerland 178

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2017

The accounts vary in length from two to six pages, and are well illustrated with photographic images by Ryan Phillips of the Belize Raptor Research Institute and a group of 40 photographers from the United States and Central America. The book’s bio is not exaggerating when it says that author William S.

Mexico 170

Mexico America North America Falcons 170

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2019

It’s never too late or too early to buy a children’s book about birds. It’s been a few years since my last roundup of children’s bird books, and children’s book writers, illustrators and publishers continue to produce picture books that feature avian protagonists. First, the board books.

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New York City Pelicans Birds New York 155

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2016

And so, I turn to Better Birding: Tips, Tools & Concepts for the Field , the new book by George L. This is a very different book from what I expected, less of a handbook and more of a comprehensive identification text on 24 groups of birds, presented in words and photographs. Armistead and Brian L. Authors George L.

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Birds Groups 2015 North America 190

10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2018

This is essentially a survey of ornithological marine research told in the voice of one of its most passionate and experienced participants. Mostly, as you can probably tell from the last paragraph, I learned how a marine ornithologist thinks, and how challenging this research can be. Bruce Pearson is the book illustrator.

Albatross 114

Albatross Penguins Research Breeding 114

10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2018

The many images of gulls presented by this field guide with their detailed captions are the best reasons to purchase and use this book. Gulls of the World is meant to cover more geographic area (add South America, Australia and the Arctic and any other parts of the world not covered in the first book) and less detail. Topography.

2004 157

2004 North America America Europe 157

10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2018

The theft of some “dead birds” captures his imagination, and by the end of the book we’ve traveled with him around the world as he talks to famous fly tiers,* the Tring police, and Rist himself, seeking for the truth behind the story. Seriously, this book is crying out for a movie treatment!).

Collecting 104

Collecting Iraq Ostriches Science 104

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 Birds Squirrels 236

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. The concluding chapter offers a mix of resource materials and finding aids.

Cuba 236

Cuba Birds United States 2000 236

10,000 Birds

JULY 1, 2014

I love reading children’s books, even though my child is well over the age when she asks to have them read at bedtime and my nephews fall asleep all too easily after playing lacrosse all day. Here are three excellent but very different children’s books I enjoyed this year (two were published in 2013, one in 2011).

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Puerto Rico Parrots New York City 2013 239

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2022

And, without warblers we would not have the bibliographic joy of books like The Warbler Guide , by Tom Stephenson and Scott Whittle, a warbler feast for the eyes, the answer to the prayers of every birder who has seen a glimpse of yellow, black, and white and said, “If only that leaf wasn’t in the way, I’d know that warbler’s name.”.

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United States North America Species 2013 224

10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2013

And, without warblers we would not have the bibliographic joy of books like The Warbler Guide , by Tom Stephenson and Scott Whittle, a warbler feast for the eyes, the answer to the prayers of every birder who has seen a glimpse of yellow, black, and white and said, “If only that leaf wasn’t in the way, I’d know that warbler’s name.”.

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United States North America Species New York 245

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2012

Once a body of research was established and the bird was declared endangered, it took many more years of experimentation, political maneuvering, conflicts with the National Guard, and some tragic fires to establish what is now acclaimed as a model conservation project. photo by Lynn C.

Michigan 236

Michigan Bahamas Endangered Species Research 236

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2023

2020, all also published by Firefly); children’s books and books on bird feeding. 2020, all also published by Firefly); children’s books and books on bird feeding. I’m assuming this to keep the price down; the good news is the book now feels slightly lighter. comparison tables!)

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North America Birds Owls America 220

10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2023

Birders often play a vital role in monitoring bird populations, contributing data to scientific research, and participating in citizen science initiatives that help track bird distributions, migration patterns, and breeding behaviors. Analysis : This is a fine summary and it even cites the book and the movie.

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United States North America Birds America 147

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

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North America America Birds California Condor 279

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

I had heard about this book before my trip, but it had not been published in the United States or Europe yet. Australian bird books on the shelf of a small independent bookstore in Melbourne. Australian bird books on the shelf of a small independent bookstore in Melbourne. (I I confess, I was really photographing my friend R.

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Australia Birds 2017 Groups 248

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 29, 2022

In 1978 two researchers from Harvard University were impressed by these quetzal-filled cloud forests, published photographs in the United States, and the Chacóns began to host increasing numbers of American birders. They became accustomed to feeding the visiting fishermen, and in 1971 they built a small cabin for guests.

Costa Rica 245

Costa Rica Opossums Mammals United States 245

10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2021

Originally organized by structure and ecology, they have been reclassified according to relationships discovered by DNA research. 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.

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North America America Species 2018 265

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

The breeding ecology of the Yellow-bellied Warbler was actually studied exactly here at Nonggang in 2019 by 3 Chinese researchers. Some Thai researchers looked at the breeding ecology of the Buff-breasted Babbler and published their findings in the somewhat unsuitable-sounding journal “Agriculture and Natural Resources”.

China 237

China Birds Pythons Eagles 237

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Some people read cookbooks though they have no intention of whipping up a mushroom risotto, some people read bird guide books, even when the likelihood of actually seeing the creatures in those guides is remote. This is the kind of material that makes this book special and essential for seabirding. Perrow, © Maps: Lynx Edicions.

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Albatross Penguins Family Groups 279

10,000 Birds

MAY 24, 2014

Researchers studying the Fork-tailed Drongo (like the one above spotted by Redgannet) found that these birds essentially “cry wolf” to steal the food of others. Because there is clearly a dearth of zombie tales on our bookshelves and TV/movie screens, along comes a book in which the zombies … mimic birds.

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New York Times New York Oakland Geese 202

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

And in what seems to me to be a rather far-out paper , some Chinese researchers have developed a camouflaged short-range communication method based on the imitation of Verditer Flycatcher songs. I am not making this up. Progress this is not. Apparently, some young birders at Sepilok call the Chestnut-breasted Malkoha the superhero bird.

Birds 223

Birds Eagles Mammals Singapore 223

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2019

So, I was very excited when I heard that Rick Wright was writing a book about sparrows, the first treatment of North American sparrows since 2001, possibly the first book about sparrows of North America, depending on your definition of that geographic area. Scope of Book. Read the Introduction! I like it.

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North America Sparrows America United States 154

10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2018

To celebrate spring migration, I usually review an exciting new bird book. And, there is a fairy named Moth in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and a superhero named The Moth, appropriately from Dark Horse Comics, the poor cousin to the two big comic book companies. Happy May Day! But, this year I’m going to be contrary and give you moths!

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North America America Oklahoma Missouri 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Increased scrutiny of practices long considered the norm in wildlife management, including predator hunts, commercial trapping, the legal culling of non-game birds like American Crows, and some of the research protocols used to track and translocate wild animals. were funded by hunters and 95.1% funded by the non-hunting public.”

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Wildlife Coyotes Hunters Wolves 245

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2023

They frequently reuse nest holes, thus saving vital natural resources even though cleaning out the used nest hole takes about one week ( source ). The book “Raptors of the World” describes it as a “sluggish-looking” bird, which strikes me as a bit weird for a raptor. Ditto for Storm’s Stork.

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Birds Eagles Elephants Rhinoceros 225

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

The field guides and online resources are all in agreement and I am aware of no other broadly used common names for that bird. In practice, this means that proposals to the NACC advocating a change to a long-established English name must present a strongly compelling, well-researched, and balanced rationale.

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Birds Laws 2020 Jordan 246

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

The Species Accounts section takes up the body of the book, and is arranged taxonomically according to the AOU Check-list of North American Birds, Checklist & Supplements through 2017 (with a small number of exceptions, the Introduction notes). Of the native breeding species, 112 are endemic or “very nearly endemic.” (Can

America 214

America El Salvador Costa Rica Honduras 214

10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2012

How to Be a Better Birder is a very different kind of birding book, and, once you think about it, the perfect book to be written at this particular moment in the birding universe. The cover of the book (not of Derek Lovitch) gives you some idea of the tools the better birder needs in the early 21st-century.

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New Jersey Science United States Birds 242

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 5, 2017

So, yes, Thayer’s Gull is in the book, but the reader is cautioned that the gull with be lumped with Iceland Gull “in the near future.” You may also be thinking about a third question: What bird books should I give myself for the holidays? The answer takes one click (after you read this review).

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North America America 2017 Birds 186

Critter News

JUNE 5, 2009

A well-referenced book is probably your best source of reliable information. There are many excellent books on issues related to animal research. Know Your Adversary Part of being an effective activist on animal research issues is knowing the arguments in support of animal research. Get FOIAed Up!

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Animal Research Animal Medical Research Research 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2012

from University of Miami in 1966 and has written over 75 scientific and popular papers and books, including Shorebirds of North America: The Photographic Guide. Retirement apparently means writing this book and its companion volume, Dragonflies and Damselflies of the West (published by Princeton Univ. More on this later.)

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United States Costa Rica Massachusetts North America 238