10,000 Birds

MAY 2, 2023

Flight Paths traces the history of migratory research in nine chapters, starting with the earliest attempts to track birds, bird banding/ringing (which she traces back to Audubon), and ending with ‘community science’ projects such as Breeding Bird Surveys and eBird.

Science 200

Science Illinois Investigation Research 200

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

They say so right here in the Preface of Oceanic Birds of The World: A Photo Guide —seabirds are “some of the most challenging of all birds to identify.” For the smaller bird groups, like Frigatebirds, a visual table-of-contents presents a small photo of each species and page number–simple and easy to follow. Which ones?

Albatross 167

Albatross North America Birds Groups 167

4 The Love Of Animals

DECEMBER 18, 2011

However choosing what food to feed your pet is a major decision especially as there are different types of food specifically designed for different breeds and lifestyles. Hills pet food offer a range of food designed for puppies of various breeds including sizing of the food to ensure comfort and encouragement.

Dogs 100

Dogs Lifestyle Rights Branding 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 1, 2014

I am also writing it on the tails of an excellent review by Corey who, although he termed his post a collection of “impressions,” really did nail down the great content of The Sibley Guide to Birds, Second Edition , by David Allen Sibley, as well as the minor items that need to be improved. But, always to the right.

North America 247

North America Birds Species America 247

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Yet they also bring up questions, which I’m going to talk about right now before diving into the specifics of the guides themselves. I think we do have the right to expect that artwork and species descriptions when repeated are current, reflect recent studies and taxonomic thought. © 2023 by Steve N. © 2023 by Steve N.

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Costa Rica Belize El Salvador Birds 227

10,000 Birds

APRIL 9, 2017

Not only have the birds arrived from other areas of Australia to breed, but many other creatures have been visible for those of us that are prepared to go bush-walking in extreme heat. We had accidentally startled a pair of Yellow-spotted Monitors and thankfully the one that climbed the tree was content to watch us without climbing too high.

Geese 100

Geese Birds Fox Ducks 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Between the two breeding bird atlases in the state – one done in the early ’80s and one in the early ’00s – the number of atlas blocks with Vesper Sparrows declined 49%, a decline that is echoed in breeding bird survey routes as well. What has caused the decline? What has caused the decline? … a.

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Sparrows North Dakota United States Downers 165

10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2023

But anyway, my main point of contention is the style, not the facts. Many native bird species have been displaced or lost their breeding grounds, leading to a significant decline in their numbers. That’s right, we’re in Shanghai—a place where birds and concrete collide in a remarkable display of irony.

China 176

China Endangered Species Sanctuary Protection 176

10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2023

There are also two pages illustrating the “Holistic Approach,” silhouettes of each species (Western birds on the left, Eastern birds on the right), that allow for comparison of structure, size, and shape. The maps are fairly complex, showing breeding range, winter range, year-round range, migration routes, times, and directions.

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Los Angeles North America America Species 225

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 10, 2011

Reports had it being a more-than-confiding bird and it seemed content gorging itself on its preferred food item, crayfish, that it was finding in Park Ridge’s Silver Lake which really is a large pond. Decision made I went to bed on Thursday night with visions of an ibis dancing in my head. But would the bird stay?

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New Jersey New York United States Breeding 194

10,000 Birds

MAY 25, 2011

That’s right, there is another Beat Writer at 10,000 Birds! His summers during college were spent as a biological technician, monitoring breeding birds for Point Reyes Bird Observatory in Eastern Oregon, and also five seasons in Black Hills, SD, working for the Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory. in Animal Ecology.

Brazil 160

Brazil Venezuela Iowa Guatemala 160

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 16, 2011

Replacing feathers is an energy intensive process and most birds try to get through it before migrating, and outside of the breeding season. Molt can be suspended if the energy is needed for other critical functions (I’ve seen this happen in breeding birds).

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Tanzania Breeding Rights Birds 195

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2012

They both breed in Siberia, which is pretty far from Jamaica Bay. Oh, and did I mention that the stint was still in breeding plumage? the rightmost bird is the stint (ust in case you couldn’t tell) here it is again, on the left this time by now you can find it on your own, right? A quick word about both of these birds.

Jamaica 171

Jamaica 2008 New York Alaska 171

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 29, 2013

Nearly every species of heron and egret in North America forage only feet away, some of them in their dazzling breeding displays. Right in the open. ” ring out across the boardwalk and some desperate photographer scares it off, not content with his 30 foot visual. A young Bobcat!

North America 233

North America Factory Alligators Trafficking 233

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Still, looking at this book, 744 pages long, 10 inches high and almost 2 inches wide, and looking at my crowded bookshelves and the piles of books stacked next to them, I have to wonder: Is the content worth the space? The sidebars and large migration maps are not indexed (nor listed in the Table of Contents, which is purely by family).

North America 178

North America America Birds Family 178

10,000 Birds

JUNE 25, 2011

Consider who the rightful owner of this rich resource might be and weigh the consequences of hasty action. Now a car manufacturer might suggest that you remove the caustic substance immediately with a soft cloth, but are they really the right people to be giving advice on such a sensitive issue?

Bolivia 197

Bolivia Chile America Spain 197

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2016

You can check the table of contents, or browse the “gallery of thumbnail images” in the Introduction (see image above) or use either of the two indexes—a Short Index on the inside back cover flap and a traditional Index of popular and scientific names. There is an important area I haven’t touched on yet—accuracy of visual content.

Ireland 150

Ireland Birds Groups Falcons 150

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 2, 2014

This is evident in the introductory material, which includes sections on The Origin and Evolution of Borneo’s Birds, Conservation in Action, Vegetation and Bird Life in Borneo, Climate, Rainfall and Bird Breeding Seasons, and Bird Migration. Bird images are numbered to correspond with the text.

Brunei 179

Brunei Birds Asia China 179

10,000 Birds

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.

America 214

America El Salvador Costa Rica Honduras 214

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2018

You could say that the right-brain, the part of the brain that is intuitive and creative, goes first, and the left-brain, where the logic resides, comes in second to refine and substantiate the initial impression. These elements are very important when dealing with a high-content subject like gull identification.

North America 208

North America America El Salvador Nicaragua 208

10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2014

Nestled right in the middle of Europe, we have a little bit of everything, a nice cross section of Europe’s avifauna. On the contrary, the birds were quite satisfied with their new-found freedom and realms, and started breeding immediately after their escape in the spring of 2001, much to everyone’s surprise.

Germany 254

Germany Birds 2000 South America 254

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2013

It covers 63 odonate species: 44 breeding species (19 damselfly, 25 dragonfly), and, in a second part of the Species Accounts, 19 vagrant, potential vagrant and former breeding species (5 damselfly, 14 dragonfly). Sections on Behaviour, Breeding Habitat, and Population and Conservation offer brief but specific information.

Ireland 180

Ireland France Breeding Eggs 180

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 13, 2011

DNA evidence then indicated that they are an ancient group mostly closely related to the bizarre and wildly different rockfowls and they were therefore contentiously placed in the Picathartes family, before finally finding a contented home in their own family, Chaetopidae. A dancing Blue Crane , South Africa’s national bird.

South Africa 234

South Africa Lesotho Africa Swaziland 234

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

The truth is that, as far as the actual number of bird species living in our wide world right now, sometimes we have bad days when we lose a bird forever. These tanagers breed only with each other, eschewing the company of parrots, warblers, and even other groups of tanagers, some of which are really, really beautiful.

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Groups Branding Species 2009 190

10,000 Birds

MAY 2, 2016

We immediately headed to an undisclosed location where Carlos had breeding Mangrove Cuckoos staked out. Sure, it was a lifer and an unexpected one because most of the hawks have moved further north to breed by late April but Carlos did nothing to ensure that it stuck around for better looks. He was right! What a mean guide!

Florida 124

Florida Miami Birds Owls 124

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 5, 2017

To be fair, I could and should have also grabbed The Shorebird Guide for the Greenshank and Collin’s Bird Guide, 2nd edition for both birds, but the Nat Geo was right there next to me, where your favorite field guides should be.). No other field guide to North American birds does rarities so comprehensively and so well. (To

North America 187

North America America 2017 Birds 187

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

Some birds breed in flocks, at least in part to avoid predation. Most birders usually have to be content to watch flocks. If you can somehow convince yourself there is a rare bird to be found in every flock you look through, it won’t be long before you start finding more so-called “good” birds.

North Dakota 163

North Dakota LACS Oakland Falcons 163

10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2019

The Contents page gives plate number and book page number for each major section and for each species in the Species Accounts (something many guides surprisingly do not do). the Species Accounts print the genus name in the upper left-hand corner and the species name in the upper right-hand corner. Organization. For browsers (me!),

Research 149

Research Eggs South America Costa Rica 149

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2022

we learn) that are home to coveted boreal species, breeding wood-warblers, and two species of Grouse. Additional helpful design features include the names of family groups against a yellow-and-white striped background on every page corner and having every bird image facing right (except for that Common Loon chick!), 2022, $25.95.

Los Angeles 210

Los Angeles Birds District of Columbia Parrots 210

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2016

A guide that feels so right in my hands? Images show the bird in flight, both underside and upperside, and in juvenile and adult plumages– breeding and nonbreeding, and, where appropriate, male and female. Am I willing to give up the field guide which bears the mud and dirt of so many falls on so many birding trips?

North America 171

North America 2003 Birds America 171

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Its organization and content is unorthodox in several ways, which I think is exciting; new approaches to field guides give birders opportunities to rethink how we identify birds and a good excuse to buy yet another field guide. Some offer nest information, egg information, breeding timeline, in flight views, etc.

Australia 109

Australia Birds Penguins 2015 109

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2021

A small range map is placed in the upper right/left hand corner showing summer, winter, resident, migration, and rare locations. Sections are clearly marked with bold type and the font size is just right–not too big, not too small. Who is responsible for the intellectual content of the Audubon guide?

North America 279

North America America Birds California Condor 279

10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2018

The Table of Contents is the best starting point for finding the gull you want, and with 61 species accounts, listed with common and scientific name, it’s pretty easy to scan and pinpoint a name. The pages are labeled on the left with the genus name (for example, Larus) and on the right with the brief title: Gulls.

2004 161

2004 North America America Europe 161

10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2014

Using ministerial connections he obtained 100 mallard eggs from the US and began to breed and distribute them. Animal rights types start emerging from the woodwork and comparing conservationists to Nazis, obsessing about the purity of a species (see attempts to control Ruddy Ducks to save White-headed Ducks).

Species 169

Species New Zealand Ducks Game 169

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 7, 2018

Illustrations are old school, in a separate section, with images of the right and brief descriptions of the left–73 plates offering 1,000 images. Species Accounts. The Species Accounts are arranged in a rough AOS taxonomic order. Flycatchers II by Ian Griffiths. Conclusion.

Honduras 106

Honduras Birds 2015 Family 106

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Two-columned text is on the left and illustrations and range maps on the right. There are more than 1,300 distribution maps, indicating resident birds, breeding visitors, and migrants. The birds illustrated on the right-hand pages are proportional in size; gender and age are illustrated when needed, as are subspecies.

Indonesia 134

Indonesia Brunei Birds Malaysia 134

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 6, 2020

and plumage terms such as “breeding” and “nonbreeding” have been replaced with “spring/summer” and “fall/winter.” Text for the species accounts are on the right-hand page.

North America 237

North America America 2020 Hawaii 237