Branding Family Groups Rights 
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. Appropriate appellations should respect the birds, not 19th century naturalists and their friends and family. … The post Wood Warbler Names Done Right appeared first on 10,000 Birds.
10,000 Birds
MAY 5, 2020
And, the One-page Index, a quick reference to locating major bird families, is placed in two locations–the front and the back of the book. The Accounts present text on the left and images on the right. Family groups are briefly introduced with descriptions of their shared characteristics. Species Accounts.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 1, 2021
Interestingly, Chestnut-collared Longspur does appear under its brand-new official name, Thick-billed Longspur, though the description underneath uses the old name. A small range map is placed in the upper right/left hand corner showing summer, winter, resident, migration, and rare locations. PHOTOGRAPHIC ILLUSTRATIONS.
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) It is organized taxonomically, with families identified by first scientific and then popular name. 3) What was the best guide to the birds of Trinidad and Tobago?
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).
10,000 Birds
JUNE 4, 2019
Both were led by strong, intelligent women who needed to develop new ways of making their points with the public and the government; both movements were lynchpins in developing today’s values of human rights and environmental conservation. It is reproduced in “Mrs. Botibol” (p. There is no effort at context.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 5, 2017
To be fair, I could and should have also grabbed The Shorebird Guide for the Greenshank and Collin’s Bird Guide, 2nd edition for both birds, but the Nat Geo was right there next to me, where your favorite field guides should be.). Most of the species are described in the Species Accounts, arranged taxonomically into 86 family chapters.
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