10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2016

Light blue boxes give brief facts on breeding age, strategy and lifespan. and is currently events coordinator for the American Birding Association and a research associate in the Ornithology Department at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University. Additional information is presented in boxes and with photographs.

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Birds Groups 2015 North America 190

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2021

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. Who is responsible for the intellectual content of the Audubon guide? These are all informative and current.

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North America America Birds California Condor 279

10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2023

The maps are fairly complex, showing breeding range, winter range, year-round range, migration routes, times, and directions. Lee is also a geochemist and professor in the Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences at Rice University, Houston. There are not a lot of flycatcher guides out there! (I

Los Angeles 213

Los Angeles North America America Species 213

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.

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South Africa Lesotho Africa Swaziland 224

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

What is amazing is that each of these three books is very different in content and tone. This bit of science is a nice final counterpoint to an account that has emphasized art, history, and literature. He effectively brings his point across by presenting facts and images and a little bit of hard science.

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2014 Killing Michigan Kentucky 160

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 7, 2023

Meaning: we did real science, Martens did not. ” Meaning: we did real science, Martens did not. ” Meaning: Martens did not do his homework and does not do real science. . ” Meaning: Martens did not do his homework and does not do real science. In contrast, the paper by Martens et al.

Hamburgers 210

Hamburgers Birds Science China 210

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The material on habitat tells us that sometimes looking for odonates in the tropics means thinking outside the North American box: Bromeliads and water-holding tree holes are breeding locations for certain species, including Blue-winged Helicopter. This is great, I only wish there was some kind of index or table of contents to this feature.

Costa Rica 261

Costa Rica North America Family America 261

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. Goodbye “front-heavy appearance.”

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North America Birds Species America 240

10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2015

Penguins are also bellweathers of climate change; dwellers of remote areas you’ve (probably) never heard of; creatures who have developed unique, innovative ways of adapting to the harsh environments where they breed and rear chicks and the water environments in which they feed and swim.

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Penguins New Zealand South Africa Albatross 200

10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2018

Describing gull plumage is a combination of science, graphic art, and visual metaphor. 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. .); Common Gull Species Account.

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2004 North America America Europe 151