10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 6, 2015

Of course, most natural histories are based on research, but Weidensaul’s approach is highly specific. Each account contains a range map created by Weidensaul, utilizing diverse sources–breeding bird atlases, banding data, research articles. (It taken from the Macaulay Library of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

North America 244

North America Owls America Dominican Republic 244

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2013

The story of the cahow, a “Lazurus species” that was thought to be extinct for over 300 years and then discovered to be breeding on a tiny remote island in Bermuda, is part of modern birding legend. A particularly good type of fertilizer, for example, drastically increased the population of crabs, spoiling Bermuda’s golf courses.

Birds 179

Birds Rats Breeding 2012 179

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Feel free to insert your own French joke here (though of course in the US, restaurants now serve Freedom Frogs rather than French Frogs). The breeding ecology of the Yellow-bellied Warbler was actually studied exactly here at Nonggang in 2019 by 3 Chinese researchers. This included recording a total of 77,760 minutes of video.

China 254

China Birds Pythons Eagles 254

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

” But of course, with this slight adaptation, it also works for blog posts and their writers, and allows me to plug another nice song by this underrated artist, before switching to birds. Said Blue-throated Barbet – maybe lacking an altimeter – indeed could be seen very close to its family member at Tongbiguan.

Birds 205

Birds China Woodpeckers Breeding 205

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2020

It’s the bird family that most people don’t know is a bird family. For many years it was thought the two bird families were related taxonomically. Like Antpittas and Gnateaters by Harold F. Introduction.

Guinea 264

Guinea Birds Papua New Guinea Family 264

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2021

Of course, I also go there several other times each year; I have, after all, seen 160 species at this endemic-rich site. All sightings southeast of the species’ Puerto Vallarta-to-Los Mochis breeding area are of migrating birds. Not that I measured him, of course. But I never, ever miss a February and July in Paso Ancho.

2016 264

2016 2015 Nicaragua Mexico 264

10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2022

For some reason, the largest member of the heron family is not called the Great Heron nor the Giant Heron but rather the Goliath Heron. It is also documented on video. Of course, out of spite, I am only showing you a male. Consistency is overrated. I tried the same line of argument in high school, did not help me much.

Birds 147

Birds Africa Eagles Barn Owls 147

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2022

Wrynecks are fascinating because they are woodpeckers, taxonomically and evolutionarily, yet they do not share many behaviors and anatomical features of most members of the Picidae family. But they are woodpeckers: the genus Jynx of the subfamily Jynginae of the Picidae family. They are beautiful, but in a different way.

Woodpeckers 258

Woodpeckers Hungary Thailand 2014 258

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Recent studies show that many island species went extinct before anyone managed to document their existence. According to his writings, the Cuban Macaw’s behavior was typical of the genus, living in pairs or family parties that kept in contact with loud, raucous calls. The islands of the Caribbean are no exception. What a horror!

Cuba 257

Cuba Parrots Collecting Columbus 257

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Three helpful sections precede the Introduction: Photo and silhouette comparisons of gulls that breed in North America (see illustration above), Basic Anatomical Terms illustrated with four diagrams, and a very selective Glossary. And, then there is a Hybrid Gulls chapter, covering five well-documented hybrids.

North America 212

North America America El Salvador Nicaragua 212

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 7, 2018

It gives species accounts for 761 birds (I counted, but I could have missed a couple) out of the 763-770 species documented in the country (eBird lists 763 and Gallardo says there were 770 at the time of publication). These descriptions are quite helpful, especially if you are not familiar with the family group. Species Accounts.

Honduras 108

Honduras Birds 2015 Family 108

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2017

But, of course, regular 10,000 Birds readers know this from beat writer, Australian birder Clare Morton , whose writings about the birds of Broome and other Australian areas have taught many of us about the joys of Australian birding. Each family group begins with a small box summarizing the characteristics of the family in Australia.

Australia 114

Australia Birds Penguins 2015 114

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 5, 2021

There are a number of striking damselflies–the Firetails with their bright red abdomens and sometimes matching red eyes or thorax (only the males, of course); the sleek, elegant Rubyspots (nine species!); Wait–that adds up to 290 species, but the book only covers 283. the Flamboyant Flatwings (that’s the genera name!),

Costa Rica 264

Costa Rica North America Family America 264

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 5, 2017

The 7th edition of the National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America covers 1,023 species that reside, migrate, or have been documented as accidentals or exotics in North America. Most of the species are described in the Species Accounts, arranged taxonomically into 86 family chapters.

North America 189

North America America 2017 Birds 189

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2013

The compactness of both books (Dragonflies is 208-pages and Butterflies is 224-pages long) of course stems from the small number of each type of insect in Great Britain and Ireland; comparative field guides for Europe and Great Britain are necessarily longer and heavier. I’m going to look at Britain’s Dragonflies first.

Ireland 190

Ireland France Breeding Eggs 190

10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2019

Antpittas and Gnateaters covers 64 species in six genera and two families. (I Here’s Plate 3, the third plate for Conopophaga , one of the two genera of the Gnateater family. They are, of course, of antpittas building or incubating eggs on a nest. This is particularly true when it comes to sorting out subspecies.

Research 161

Research Eggs South America Costa Rica 161

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

It covers 434 species across 9 orders and 18 families of birds. Seabirds: The New Identification Guide covers these, of course, and also more familiar species. Other families are more complicated and these introductory sections are correspondingly longer and amazingly more detailed. SCOPE & SPECIES ORGANIZATION.

Albatross 279

Albatross Penguins Family Groups 279

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2019

I birded parks, landfills, fields, backyards, skies, oceans, lakes, ponds, and roads in 15 states–some familiar haunts and patches, some as part of family visits, some while passing through, some adventures with friends (three trips with N.J. In the meantime, it’s a good topic for holiday family gatherings.

2018 179

2018 New Jersey Michigan North Dakota 179

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 3, 2013

I knew I would not be seeing the bird in its rosy-breasted breeding plumage, but somehow seeing the bird in all its forms helped crystallize its appearance in my head. or birds that look very different in their breeding and non-breeding plumages (Shorebirds! I studied it. Sadly, I still did not see the bird.

Ireland 176

Ireland 2013 Breeders Ducks 176

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2012

This bird represented only the second documented record of this species in Florida. Of course, no ordinary chicken would do, but the Red Junglefowl is the primordial progenitor of poultry, the wild source of cutlets, nuggets, and Buffalo wings. Secretive, silent and undetectable outside of its breeding season, found only in the U.S.

2012 166

2012 Birds Guatemala Florida 166

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

1985) and Seabirds of the World: A Photographic Guide (1987) that covers all species of birds that spend most of their lives foraging, feeding, and flying over and on oceans, and, when not at sea, breeding in remote, inaccessible places. Coverage of all families is not comprehensive. Does it follow fishing boats?

Albatross 180

Albatross North America Birds Groups 180

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2015

Picidae, Woodpecker, is one of those charismatic bird families that everybody gets excited about. Woodpeckers of the World: A Photographic Guide is the first major guide to family Picidae in 20 years. Unless the woodpecker is drumming a hole into your garage, and then, well, it’s a different kind of excitement.)

Woodpeckers 260

Woodpeckers 2002 Europe Research 260

10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2023

The Great Egret was in breeding plumage and courtship posture–bright lime green lores, head bending down and then snapping up, long, impossibly delicate plumes waving over its body as if possessed by independent spirits. He has done an enormous amount of research, carefully documented the text, and produced a bibliography 13 pages long.

Connecticut 147

Connecticut Washington Legislation Hunting 147