Branding Breeding Presentation Species 
10,000 Birds
MAY 5, 2020
A Field Guide to the Birds: Giving Field Marks of All Species Found in Eastern North America was published in 1934 by Houghton Mifflin (note–Peterson was 26 years old), after being rejected by four publishers. Adding the 76 new species in the Hawaii section, this makes coverage of approximately 884 species.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 1, 2021
Pough “with illustrations in color of every species” by Don Eckelberry, Doubleday, 1946. The National Audubon Society Birds of North America covers all species seen in mainland United States, Canada and Baja California. The press material says it covers over 800 species, so you know I had to do a count.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 25, 2019
That fallacious family name seems to have encouraged all manner of knaves, dunderheads, and miscreants when time came to label species. Most of the warblers south of the border escaped this ignominy; those Basileuterus and Myiothlypis species generally appear exactly as advertised. NAMED FOR PEOPLE. NAMED FOR PLACES.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 24, 2017
The other day, I was up there to do my annual breeding bird survey and it was a fine morning of cool, highland jacket weather birding. A few of the other species encountered that morning were Barred Becard, Red-faced Spinetail, Spot-crowned Woodcreeper, Golden-browed Chlorophonia, Prong-billed Barbet, and Slate-throated Redstart.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 28, 2019
And the faces around this table – faces you might recognize, and names, if I hadn’t signed an NDA that I’m pretty sure allows me to be shot into space if I tell you who was present – were doing a pretty good job of acting like they wanted to hear them. No brand recognition at all.” “Exactly! .
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 6, 2013
I couldn’t wait to give names to all my new species. I tried using the Internet, but found it frustrating for all the usual reasons; websites either didn’t include all species or were difficult to use for identification. Each species account is 2-pages long, one page of text and one page of photographs.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 5, 2017
The 7th edition of the National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America covers 1,023 species that reside, migrate, or have been documented as accidentals or exotics in North America. Species Accounts: With 1,023 species, National Geographic 7 continues to cover the most species of any North American field guide.
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