10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2021

The holidays started early this year, with the first night of Hannukah coming right at the end of Thanksgiving weekend! We review what the publishers, distillers, or manufacturers send us, or what catches our collective eye, or what we have time for. And similarly with 99 other birds — raptors, songbirds, ducks, and otherwise.

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Birds Colombia Collecting Bald Eagle 245

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OCTOBER 4, 2022

Although Henslow’s had been reliably found in nearby Sharon Springs for many years, the last documented sighting was in 2008, and the sighting startled longtime birders, waking them up to the fact that breeding sites in the state were rapidly being lost. I like the journalistic flavor added by these interviews.

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Birds Sparrows Connecticut New York 264

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DECEMBER 1, 2022

campus gardens – the Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Centre, located 3 km east of the town of Turrialba. There was a Gartered Trogon right above me, and one cooperative Brown-throated Three-toed Sloth on a cecropia tree, raising its head to smile at us. A group (maybe 4-5 ex.)

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Costa Rica Nicaragua 2019 Farming 244

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

The Guan had never been seen in the wild after Polish Naturalist Wladyslaw Taczanowski collected one individual in 1876. Nineteenth and early twentieth century naturalists collected birds on long and arduous exploratory expeditions in the New World. A large and striking bird like this would be hard to neglect in a museum collection.

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Collecting Peru Neglecting Hunting 270

10,000 Birds

JUNE 22, 2023

Being lazy, a bunch of researchers used camera traps to investigate the species rather than following the birds directly (which would have had some health benefits). With regard to their music taste, the research results were inconclusive. ” Full iteration! Evidence-based! Fundamental understanding!

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Birds China Science Research 130

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FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Here are some of the questions that were running through my mind as I read Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl : (a) Is ornithological research always this dangerous? (b) He wanted to do research that would have a conservation impact. Slaght provides funding from research grants.

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Owls Russia Fish Research 139

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

With populations plunging dramatically over the last decade, researchers from the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust, Birds Russia, and a number of other conservation organizations made the always-controversial call to pluck eggs from the imperiled wild population and establish a captive breeding program as a final hedge against extinction.

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Eggs Russia Research Breeding 163

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JULY 4, 2022

So, the birds start collecting mud and small sticks. There was a breeding pair at Binjiang Forest Park this June. Interestingly, Black-winged Stilts display laterality – that is, they preferentially use one eye (the right one) to find prey. Most scientific research really just proves the obvious.

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Birds Sparrows Protection Humane 193

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OCTOBER 17, 2022

I guess most scientists would love to see their original research become the basis for a vast field of further studies. In terms of breeding behavior, starlings are a diversified group – some use helpers, others do not. Serves the bird right for not living close to European ornithologists. young in 1.5

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South Africa Africa Birds Cape Verde 193

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APRIL 7, 2020

Author Joshua Hammer, who previously wrote about a different type of real-life-unexpected-caper in The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu , read about Lendrum in the Times of London in 2017, realized the possibilities, did the research. And, how they betrayed that trust, stealing eggs for years and, possibly even worse, falsifying research data.

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Falcons United Kingdom Zimbabwe Eggs 219

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APRIL 11, 2013

We’re always interested in what he’s up to and pleased that his research and our collective interest in cool birds can come together in such an opportune manner. Please read and then vote for either Nick or Maria’s research! Would you support research on birds with just a click on Facebook? My Project.

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Panama Research Investigation Chickens 216

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JULY 17, 2012

You don’t really know a bird until you’ve studied it on its breeding grounds. Getting intimate with a species over the course of the breeding cycle is one of the more rewarding aspects of birding, and field research too. I present here an annotated collection of photos documenting the entry of new parrotlets into this world.

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Eggs Venezuela Porcupines 2008 269

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JULY 5, 2018

Asking myself that question quarter of a century ago, I snooped through a collection of research papers in the Natural History Museum in Belgrade (before the Internet, I really had to go through papers) and found the “Ornithological Notes from the Pancevo Wetlands 1909-1917” by dr Jeno Nagy. Nevertheless, Nagy was right.

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Beavers Serbia Eagles Hungary 124

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FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Some uncountable species, like Mitred Parakeets , are in fact way more numerous than some of the countable species and they are clearly breeding in well-established populations. The species is recorded in the form of a published photograph or a specimen archived in an ornithological collection. There has to a logical reason.

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Miami Parrots Research Birds 138

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JUNE 27, 2011

Smith is the Staff Scientist Emeritus with the Smithsonian’s Tropical Research Centre in Panama. The work was widely cited, followed up with an article in Scientific American and the research appeared (and I may be wrong still appears) in textbooks. It is worthy of a much longer look than this one here.

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Research Europe Iceland Panama 172

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MAY 12, 2013

Of course Africa could not to be left out of the pink weekend so I have researched all African species whose official or alternative names include the word “pink”. Great White Pelicans showing the pink flush of breeding plumage. There are certainly some stunners involved. Pink-throated Twinspot. Photo by Adam Riley. Pink-breasted Lark.

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Africa Somalia Pelicans Mozambique 217

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JULY 7, 2020

This is a delightful book, large (8-1/2 by 11 inches), filled with Sibley’s distinctive artwork and an organized potpourri of research-based stories about the science behind bird’s lives. Each spread consists of a full-page painting of a bird or group of birds on the left and a combination of text and illustrations on the right.

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2020 Birds Groups North America 264

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NOVEMBER 6, 2018

The guide covers the all–1194 species in the Species Accounts, including 959 native breeding species, 219 Nearctic migrants, 8 breeding visiting species, and 5 introduced species. Of the native breeding species, 112 are endemic or “very nearly endemic.” (Can Text is on the left, plates are on the right.

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America El Salvador Costa Rica Honduras 214

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JANUARY 31, 2019

Wich’yanan graduated with a Master’s Degree in Biology and has been involved in a number of ornithological research projects in Thailand, as well as being a freelance guide. Uthai, a former chairman of the Bird Conservation Society of Thailand, has a Master’s Degree in Environmental Biology and has led birding tours from 1983.

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Thailand Zambia Birds Asia 196

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MAY 17, 2016

Data were collected from the North American Breeding Bird Survey and the Pan-European Common Birds Monitoring Scheme. The total overall impact on bird populations, related to climate change, is the same in North America (on the right) and Europe (on the left). Again, Europe is on the left, North America is on the right.

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North America Europe America United States 120

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NOVEMBER 5, 2013

A little bit of research when I got home unraveled the ways of publishers here and in Great Britain. Do not buy these books, unless you are collecting old bird books. The accounts aim for specificity and authority; dates and locations of rarity sightings are given, and research articles on nesting and behavior are cited.

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Trinidad Birds South America Research 201

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FEBRUARY 7, 2017

The archipelago consists of 17,000 islands stretching out over 2500 miles along the Equator with a varied history of avian research and study, most on the under- or not-studied side. Two-columned text is on the left and illustrations and range maps on the right. So, this is no ordinary bird guide. Where is the Indonesian Archipelago?

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Indonesia Brunei Birds Malaysia 131

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JUNE 5, 2018

Malling Olsen has made his own decisions, based on research (some not available when he was writing his previous book), on which gulls to treat fully, even though they are considered subspecies in current classifications (Steppe, Mongolian, Azores, Baltic, and Kamchatka Gulls). Browsing through this book is tough. Common Gull Species Account.

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2004 North America America Europe 157

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JUNE 2, 2015

Third, observing and photographing breeding birds and their young have become acts of ethical confusion as birders, photographers, and organizational representatives debate the impact of our human presence on the nesting process. Some people love books like that. And another when that egg is removed.

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Eggs Family 2006 New York 263

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OCTOBER 3, 2017

The guide covers 747 breeding residents or regular migrants, 29 introduced species, and 160 vagrants, a total of 936 species. Only one species of penguin breeds on the Australian mainland; five additional species breed on sub-Antarctic islands. Species are separated by thin but visible lines.

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Australia Birds Penguins 2015 108

10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2011

Collectively, they’re referred to as the Herring Gull complex. It is also familiar at inland sites in winter, especially reservoirs and refuse tips, and breeds in the relatively-Northerly regions of Europe, Asia, and North America. This wiki looks good too.] The Lesser Black-backed gull has a dark grey to black back and wings.

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2011 Cyprus Deer Species 157

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JUNE 1, 2021

A small range map is placed in the upper right/left hand corner showing summer, winter, resident, migration, and rare locations. The photographs are from VIREO, the ornithological image collection associated with the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, which licenses bird photographs to many guides and reference books.

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North America America Birds California Condor 279

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JULY 21, 2011

Here’s some data from the famous research project of Manu, Peru, giving biomass in kilograms per hectare. The clifftop habitats along rocky shores of the North Atlantic (on both sides of the pond) abound in bird biomass during breeding bouts, for instance. The data here are from the site of Manaus: All animals: 200 Mammals: 8.4

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Mammals Rodents Birds Reptiles 177

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JUNE 17, 2015

That’s right, the overwhelming benefits to the environment and the economy are generated by non-consumptive uses of the refuges like wildlife photography, environmental education, wildlife observation and interpretation, not hunting and fishing. The refuge is already open to sport fishing. The refuge is already open to sport fishing.

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Fish Wildlife Hunting Game 144