10,000 Birds
JUNE 20, 2022
The species name “tukki” is not derived from a beloved but now extinct Eastern European car brand but from the Sumatran word for woodpecker. The name of the Cardinal Woodpecker (Letaba, South Africa) is misleading, as not all of them are Catholic or even cardinals. Also, the cap of the females is not even red but black.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 24, 2015
It’s a strange experience looking up from a city street to gaze at birds native to South America; even more ironic considering humans drove the only native parrot/parakeet species, the Carolina Parakeet , to extinction. Again, they are fairly common in the Southwest and Mexico, but for me they felt brand new!
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10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 8, 2011
” But the tanager brand is changing. Odd little grassquits singing from power lines in South America’s great cities. The word “ tanager ” conjures certain images for most of us birder types. Maybe words like “colorful,” “beautiful,” “fruit,” and “tree.”
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 5, 2013
The bird illustrations in the third edition are brand new, updated by a group of eight artists working under the direction of John P. The artwork in my edition of Birds of Northern South America is much more intense in color. O’Neill, the original illustrator and funded by the Asa Wright Nature Center.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 4, 2015
Barker, and Carroll Henderson is a well-researched, copiously illustrated, engaging study of bird feeding practices, personalities, inventions marketing, and companies that developed in the United States from the late 19th century to the present day, with a little bit of Canada, Europe, and South America thrown in.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 1, 2021
Yes, it’s nice to have information on 817 birds, and it’s wonderful to have full descriptions and photographs of birds commonly seen in Central and South America. Hopefully, future editions of the Audubon guide will do the same. But this is not the purpose of a guide about North American birds. SPECIES ACCOUNTS.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 23, 2019
The Manteca, California company Bota Box is just one of many winemakers that have jumped on the boxed wine bandwagon, launching their brand in 2003 and growing ever since. And that’s what’s been happening for the last several years. Undoubtedly to some people the new cardboard container represents a vast improvement over tradition.
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