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Urban Ornithology: 150 Years of Birds in New York City–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

In contrast, the sections on migration, which encompass phenomena such as fallout and blow-back drift migrants, and which also offer brief anecdotes about unusual observations or observations under unusual conditions, are highly informative, even fun reading. It’s a very mixed chapter. Eaton, and John Kuerzi.

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Birding Mount Kinabalu, Sabah, Borneo

10,000 Birds

While it is laudable to publish a paper about the threat to laughingthrushes (including this) by the bird trade, I still feel that lame-joke titles such as “Nothing to laugh about – the ongoing illegal trade in laughingthrushes ( Garrulax species) in the bird markets of Java, Indonesia” should be avoided.

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