Breeding Document Family Process 
10,000 Birds
APRIL 28, 2021
As the boreal migrants head north, breeding season for the residents and austral migrants is beginning to pick up. A friend of mine has been begging me to come over to document a nesting pair of Plumbeous Kites in her property but life has gotten in the way thus far. A young male Swallow Tanager holding a bit of nesting material.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 8, 2023
Since the books share authors and a creation process, I thought I would review them together. It’s not clear how many of the plates have been touched up, redrawn or are new, and I hope we’ll learn more about the process, perhaps when the third book in the series by Howell and Dyer, a new guide to the birds of Mexico, is published.*
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10,000 Birds
JULY 2, 2014
Sadly, the downtime means that the usual post crafting process got slightly short-circuited this week. The Oriental Pied Hornbills are pretty special, as they represent a recolonization of Singapore of this family. Birds behaviour Borneo breeding hornbills Singapore' We can hope!
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 7, 2020
The authors’ detailed delineation of problems with the accuracy of NYC breeding bird surveys or with the limits of historical writings may test a reader’s patience. Because, as this book demonstrates so well, it is sometimes important to look back in order to move forward. 231st Street is now located. . It’s a very mixed chapter.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 3, 2020
The source of this ranking, BirdLife International, lists Bolivia as currently having 1,439 bird species, including 18 breeding endemics. The guide covers 1,433 species, the number of birds documented at the end of 2014, the cutoff point for the book. That’s pretty amazing–Bolivia has more bird species than India!
10,000 Birds
JUNE 9, 2022
After writing this last sentence, I looked up the species in the HBW and found the sentence “Song poorly documented” in the appropriate section, while with regard to calls, the description is that “call is a two-note raspy nasal ‘ryeeh-reh’”. It is even better to see adult Striated Herons in the wild, at Nanhui.
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. The book does not include House Sparrow, an Old World sparrow that belongs to a completely different bird family. Range and Geographic Variation.
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