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10,000 Birds
JUNE 15, 2016
It’s a bang-up breeding year for super-endangered birds! The species, which migrates from the Russian Arctic to Southeast Asia, is down to about 200 breeding pairs in the wild, due to habitat loss and poaching. For the past several years, getting the birds to breed has been an exercise in futility. Both photos by the WWT).
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
Not to give the whole content away, but one of the highlights certainly is the statement that the “proventriculus glands were constituted by many round or elliptical glandular lobules” Apparently , Crested Mynas frequently use snake slough (the skin shed by snakes) as part of their nest-building materials.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 2, 2013
A breeding bird atlas is a special kind of book. For birders, it’s the extremely large book, shelved in a place where it can’t crush the field guides, used to research the history of a bird in their area. So, what exactly does a breeding bird atlas contain? The resulting book, 616 pages in length, 6.4
10,000 Birds
APRIL 2, 2019
Peterson Reference Guide to Sparrows of North America covers 61 species of the New World sparrow family Passerellidae that breed in Canada, the United States, and northern Mexico. I simply think it is confusing to the user to have them listed in the Table of Contents but not individually in the Introduction.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 1, 2021
There are sections, ranging in length from a paragraph to two pages, on taxonomy, bird names, habitat, ranges, migration, courtship and breeding, flight, bird intelligence, bird communication; identification; finding birds, life lists; optics and photography; ethics; bird feeding; and conservation. These are all informative and current.
10,000 Birds
JULY 24, 2014
Using ministerial connections he obtained 100 mallard eggs from the US and began to breed and distribute them. A PhD student was presenting her research into the population in Westland, the relic population of Grey Duck. To access the entire week’s worth of content just click here. Female Mallard, photo by Corey.
10,000 Birds
JULY 4, 2023
Ackerman’s new book is about owls and owl research–the knowledge recently and currently being discovered through DNA analysis, new-tech tracking and monitoring, and old-fashioned fieldwork under the auspices of organizations like the Global Owl Project and the Owl Research Institute.
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