10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2019

John Schmitt, who illustrated Raptors of Mexico and Central America amongst many other books and magazine articles. I understand that this is a complicated undertaking, but a new birder reading this book would have no idea that Bushtits (#92: “Breeding System: ‘It’s Complicated'”) are only found in Western states.

Birds 115

Birds North America Breeding America 115

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2018

My own trip was not an intensive birding experience, and August is clearly not the most productive month. Nonetheless, I visited some excellent habitats, especially the flooded wetlands, and saw some good birds,” wrote the UK Birdwatch Magazine journalist Mike Unwin of his bird tour of northern Serbia 15 years ago. eBird bar chart. #2

Serbia 164

Serbia Birds Bulgaria Farming 164

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Steve Howell has spent decades of experience in the field studying the birds of Belize, Costa Rica, and especially Mexico. They also occasionally show breeding colonies or isolated populations, possible occurrences, and directions of range expansion. I don’t think scientific artwork holds less value when used more than once.

Costa Rica 223

Costa Rica Belize El Salvador Birds 223

10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2023

Many birders keep personal birding lists or life lists, documenting the species they have seen throughout their birding experiences. The concept of a big year gained significant attention through books, such as “The Big Year” by Mark Obmascik, which chronicled the experiences of birders participating in competitive big years.

United States 147

United States North America Birds America 147

10,000 Birds

APRIL 19, 2013

Now it is a book from a swank New York publishing house, with a fantastic jacket design and a significant marketing push (I ran across a quote from it in Outside magazine yesterday, and of course it is being reviewed on the premeire birding blog on the entire Internet.)

Turtles 170

Turtles Indiana New York Ethics 170

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. In 1951, there were 18 breeding pairs of cahows discovered on three tiny islands.

Birds 170

Birds Rats Breeding 2012 170

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 8, 2011

A wonderful Audubon magazine article on birds’ bills (“ Pecking Order “) notes that individual Great Tits in England experience a change in bill shape between summer and winter as their primary food sources shift.

2003 218

2003 Sparrows Family South America 218

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2016

Light blue boxes give brief facts on breeding age, strategy and lifespan. There is no end-of-book list of resources, which reflects, I think, an assumption that the birder using this book is already familiar with the more general birding books and magazines. Additional information is presented in boxes and with photographs.

Birds 190

Birds Groups 2015 North America 190

10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2019

Apo near Davao City, PEC is the site of a Philippine Eagle conservation breeding program. So, I highly recommend reading “In The Aerie Of The Philippine Eagle” , by Greg Breining an excellent article published in the September 2017 issue of Living Bird , the magazine of the Lab of Ornithology, before or after viewing the film.

Eagles 203

Eagles Philippines Eggs Birds 203

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

In Birding magazine, ABA President Jeff Gordon argued that adding Hawaii would “bring an unjustly excluded community of birders into full membership in the ABA family.” There are arguments for adding all territories, but experience demonstrates that the ABA moves glacially when it comes to the ABA Area. The only other populated U.S.

Puerto Rico 160

Puerto Rico Virgin Islands Hawaii United States 160

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2013

Besides the urgent need to identify my dragonflies, I was interested in hands-on experience using these field guides. 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).

Ireland 177

Ireland France Breeding Eggs 177

10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2012

There are other resources that do this better, he says, and, in fact, spends 10 pages recommending field and advanced bird guides, web sites, magazines, and listservs. His main purpose here is presenting the way he looks at birds, “the whole bird and more” approach to birding. Do you want to be a better birder, a strategic birder?

New Jersey 242

New Jersey Science United States Birds 242

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. Each Field Identification section ends with a description and transliterations of vocalizations, often drawing on historical accounts.

North America 154

North America Sparrows America United States 154

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2012

Fortunately, Alan Tilmouth, a beat writer with pelagic experience, expressed an interest in the book as well. But the best place to observe them is from a boat or, if you are lucky, on their breeding grounds, which tend to be isolated islands. So, you will be reading two reviews of this book in 10,000 Birds.

North America 159

North America Albatross America Species 159