10,000 Birds

APRIL 30, 2015

A quick check of the Collins 2 (I think American birders know this book as the “Birds of Europe”, but here, some branding mastermind has interconnected the company’s name and the book title) revealed that we are facing two Siberian Greylag Geese (race rubrirostris ). Picture 10: Rock Sparrow – Petronia petronia.

Greece 252

Greece Woodpeckers Eagles Birds 252

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2014

Add to that my early morning Eastern Screech-Owl at Cunningham Park (My first in Queens!)

2005 154

2005 Birds Blackbirds Branding 154

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

Other birds with webbed feet, including ducks and geese, have only three webbed toes; the hallux (which in birds is usually the “hind toe&# and in humans, the “big toe&# ) is free. But meanwhile, let’s look at the four avian families that comprise the brand new order Suliformes.

2011 155

2011 Pelicans Papua New Guinea Birds 155

10,000 Birds

JUNE 8, 2017

Looking at the river, I cannot believe my memories of the same place this January – frozen solid, with just a small opening in the ice – and 26,000 geese in it! Eurasian Wryneck by Martien Brand / Wikimedia Commons. House Sparrow – Passer domesticus. Eurasian Tree Sparrow – Passer montanus.

Romania 127

Romania Serbia Turtles Blackbirds 127

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 5, 2017

The two-page spread on Parts of a Bird provides diagrams for the topographical terms used in the Species Accounts, including hummingbird, shorebird, gull, passerine, and every feather on the upper wing of an adult Lark Sparrow. Most of the species are described in the Species Accounts, arranged taxonomically into 86 family chapters.

North America 187

North America America 2017 Birds 187