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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 20, 2016
By the time this post publishes, I’ll be on an airplane heading back to the United States following a truly remarkable two week visit to Uganda as part of a group of western birders visiting there to promote the inaugural African Birding Expo. In the relatively brief period, my group had something on the order of 450 species.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 12, 2013
February 12 is Darwin Day , the birthday of the brilliant author of On The Origin of Species. 10,000 is the approximate number of bird species in the world but certainly not the actual number. 10,000 is the approximate number of bird species in the world but certainly not the actual number.
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10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 8, 2011
” But the tanager brand is changing. Most of these birds are small, finch-like species with thick, conical bills for cracking seeds or eating insects. The word “ tanager ” conjures certain images for most of us birder types. We’re learning we’ve got to expand our idea of what it means to be a tanager.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 11, 2018
For example, fancy words will be used where normal words might seem appropriate: birds of the same species are “conspecifics” (and they will never, ever “flock together”). Data is needed to make estimates for the optimal size of the translocated group. It is all business. and Antony W. ” The Auk 128.2 2011): 265-272.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 5, 2013
There were three profound questions my birding group discussed while we birded Trinidad and Tobago, back in December 2012: (1) How many Bananaquits could fit on a banana? (2) The guide covers 477 species, an expansion of 35 from the second edition, which was published in 1991. The first two questions were never definitely answered.
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
MARCH 11, 2011
In 1903, the distinguished Elliott Coues declared , “This is a definite and perfectly natural group, which will be immediately recognized by the foregoing characters, one of which, complete webbing of hallux, is not elsewhere observed among birds.&# He could not say the same today. almost everything about flamingos and grebes).
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