10,000 Birds
MAY 5, 2022
When you spot a brand new bird identification guide, especially for your home region – in this case, Europe – reaching for it comes naturally. And a highly recommendable book it is, there is no doubt about it. The important characters successfully stand out in bold letters. Regarding maps, they tend to be on a smallish side.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 27, 2019
It was inevitable that Birds and Booze would one day get around to reviewing Grey Goose, the popular and high-profile brand of premium French vodka that comes in an attractive bottle adorned with frosty white silhouettes of geese in flight. In the late 1990s, Grey Goose was one of the very first of these.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 13, 2022
I was just thinking that tailorbird might be a good brand name for a cheap line of men’s clothing. Lesser Whistling Ducks are “not threatened by hunting as they are not considered good to eat” ( Wikipedia ). Lucky ducks. In Singapore, Common Redshanks mostly drink Tiger Beer.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 8, 2017
Shallows provide an ideal spawning ground for almost 50 fish species and submerged islands breeding ground for more than 100 bird species. Beside several well-showing Red-backed Shrikes , the highlight was one uncommon Lesser Grey Shrike (highly localized ** , with only 700 to 1000 breeding pairs in Serbia). I like driving.
10,000 Birds
MAY 5, 2020
When you review the system, it makes perfect sense: falcons are placed with hawks, nightjars are next to owls, and grebes are close to ducks, rather than separated from them by quail and grouse. I did catch a minor error in the page number references for Lesser Scaup and Ring-necked Duck, which will hopefully be corrected in future printings.)
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 12, 2013
Sometimes we have good days where we discover a long-lost friend or a brand-new one. These tanagers breed only with each other, eschewing the company of parrots, warblers, and even other groups of tanagers, some of which are really, really beautiful. Every member of this gene pool is recognized as a stripe-headed tanager.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 11, 2018
Other papers are locked behind paywalls.) That research ultimately led to an article about the conservation efforts regarding the Laysan Duck in the June 2017 issue of Birding. This post provides a quick overview of how a birder might approach that task. It is helpful to have a sample paper.
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