10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

And it looks even better in my hands while I dream about a visit to regions of Brazil I had scarcely heard of before being provided with a review copy of the first volume of the Wildlife Conservation Society Birds of Brazil.* What does a field guide that covers one of the most biologically diverse countries look like?

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Brazil Wildlife 2011 Birds 192

10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2011

He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B.

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Experience Experiments Deer 2011 162

10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2022

Less and Gilroy sort through the exogenous (external) and endogenous (internal) factors thought to cause vagrancy and the scientific experiments that have sought to prove their significance with patience and plain language as well as charts and photographs. It’s not always easy reading.

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Birds Compassion Eagles Science 251

10,000 Birds

MARCH 12, 2011

As part of the Wildlife Conservation Society Birds of Brazil giveaway we asked readers of 10,000 Birds to name the bird in Brazil that they would like to see more than any other species. To see this bird in all its glory in the environs of Brazil would be my bird dream. It is a really neat bird that I have not seen before.

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Brazil 2011 Birds Wildlife 194

10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2011

This offering is actually hard to part with: a copy of Wildlife Conservation Society Birds of Brazil: The Pantanal and Cerrado of Central Brazil signed by both John Gwynne, who managed the project, and Guy Tudor, eminent neotropical bird artist and art director of the project. Time to give away a wonderful book on 10,000 Birds!

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Brazil Wildlife 2011 Deer 175

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2021

In 2012, I reviewed The Jewel Hunter , an absorbing narrative in which author Chris Goodie travelled throughout Asia, Africa, and Australasia to observe and photograph every Pitta species in the world. Like all talented travel writers, Dunn is adept at drawing us into his experiences. A passion for one bird family is also very useful.

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Costa Rica Brazil Ecuador Bolivia 264

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OCTOBER 1, 2014

Is a Coua a bird or a city in Brazil? Their stubby bills make them efficient at this, and unlike their insect hunting thornbill relatives, they are fairly sedentary hunters, content to take insects off leaves without chasing after them. What, exactly, is a koel? Is a saw-wing a bird or an engine part?

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Australia Fiji Hunters Family 170