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. Geological Survey.

Science 186

Science Illinois Investigation Research 186

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 15, 2020

It’s such a far cry from the way things were in pre-Internet times that those days almost seem to be located in another world, another universe where we opened the pages of a magazine and gazed in awe at images of unbelievable birds.

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Costa Rica Birds Species Woodpeckers 264

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.

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Birds North America Breeding America 115

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2024

She explains complex and sometimes controversial topics including captive breeding, environmental toxins, feral cats and other invasive predators, Hawaiian avian extinction, avian disease, California Condor distribution and history, legal loopholes, and lead poisoning.

California Condor 176

California Condor Falcons California Birds 176

10,000 Birds

MAY 21, 2020

Depending on your particular interest, opt for March/April (spring migration), May/June (breeding season), August to October (autumn migration), or November/December when waterbird migration reaches its peak. You may have read about Kikinda in the Wall Street Journal or the BBC Wildlife Magazine. Top-5 hotspots.

Serbia 317

Serbia Sanctuary Birds Bosnia 317

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 31, 2017

Yet, nothing of the calmness of my previous visits remained: a week ago, the reserve was recommended in some angling magazine and I found parked cars and a dozen people, swish-swooshing their fishing rods. A pair displaying at the end of August, well after the breeding season?

Serbia 116

Serbia Breeding Woodpeckers Feral 116

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2015

Third, observing and photographing breeding birds and their young have become acts of ethical confusion as birders, photographers, and organizational representatives debate the impact of our human presence on the nesting process. Some people love books like that.

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Eggs Family 2006 New York 263

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2012

This Autumn/Winter has brought excellent numbers of another owl from its breeding grounds in Scandinavia and one that is a damn sight easier to see as it is partly diurnal or active during the day. Short-eared Owls do breed in Britain but every few years an ‘irruption’ of the like we are seeing occurs.

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Barn Owls Finland Owls Portugal 180

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 167

Birds Rats Breeding 2012 167

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The maps, which are positioned to the left of the text, are small and indicate primary seasonal status–whether and where the bird is a resident breeding species, seasonal breeding migrant, seasonal nonbreeding migrant, or transient migrant. I love the writing here.

Costa Rica 212

Costa Rica Belize El Salvador Birds 212

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

I had the good fortune to be asked to represent one of the UK’s national birding magazines ‘Birdwatching’ on a press trip to Southern Portugal earlier this month. The steady supply of high quality lunch destinations with superb local food on offer was also gratefully received.

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Portugal Legislation 2000 Adoptable 250

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.)

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Turtles Indiana New York Ethics 167

Critter News

OCTOBER 22, 2008

According to Bite Back Magazine , an activist released 1500 mink from a farm in Astoria. About 1,500 mink were released from their cages with at least 200 of these being breeding stock. fur farmers are a dying breed. The fact that there is no fence around this farm should help ease their escape.

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Oregon Breeding Stock Fur Farming 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 6, 2015

” His tone is relaxed and conversational, noting species that have expanded or restricted their range, locations of breeding populations, what call or song is best to listen for, and generally communicating what a joy it is to bird this state of mountains and plains and rivers. So, each guide has an individual personality.

Colorado 235

Colorado Florida Birds New Jersey 235

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 210

2003 Sparrows Family South America 210

10,000 Birds

MAY 10, 2013

In the good old tradition of Stresemann and Mayr we were an ornithological nation, gathering systematic data on bird numbers and distribution of our regular breeding and wintering birds. Back in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Germany was not a birding nation, at least not by international standards. There was no vetting process whatsoever.

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France Vet Germany Birds 160

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.

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Eagles Philippines Eggs Birds 203

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2016

The map template shows the political boundaries of each country, and are color and shape coded to show permanent residents, nonbreeding visitors, breeding visitors, transients, vagrants, breeding colonies, local wintering sites, locally resident year-round sites, and suspected sites.

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El Salvador America Costa Rica Honduras 232

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.

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Birds Groups 2015 North America 190

4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

In fact, Donna Warner, the editor-in-chief at Metropolitan Home Magazine has one in her NYC office and loves it! This breed and this mare seemed to be a good match for our family. They’re graphic, timeless, and pieces of art, really. I hope to do a new one each year so they may be collected by our loyal customers.

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Branding Horses Lifestyle Pets 100

4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

In fact, Donna Warner, the editor-in-chief at Metropolitan Home Magazine has one in her NYC office and loves it! This breed and this mare seemed to be a good match for our family. They’re graphic, timeless, and pieces of art, really. I hope to do a new one each year so they may be collected by our loyal customers.

Branding 100

Branding Horses Lifestyle Pets 100

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 147

North America Sparrows America United States 147

10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2011

It is also familiar at inland sites in winter, especially reservoirs and refuse tips, and breeds in the relatively-Northerly regions of Europe, Asia, and North America. Yellow-Legged Gull These gulls breed around the Mediterranean and have yellow, rather than flesh-coloured legs. Get yours today!

2011 157

2011 Cyprus Deer Species 157

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2014

These are extremely large stick structures (some articles compare the largest ones to the size of a car) that are usually populated by multiple breeding pairs in separate chambers. Monk Parakeet is the only parrot species that builds its own nest. Some articles speculate that the nests offer protection against the cold.

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Chicago New York City New York Illinois 199

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.

New Jersey 234

New Jersey Science United States Birds 234

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Terns of North America covers 19 species of terns, noddies, and skimmers that breed and are regular vagrants in the United States and Canada (like many books titled “North America” the geographical coverage stops at the northern end of the Mexico border). It’s also a beautiful book to look through.

North America 202

North America America Species Groups 202

10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2021

In fact, early, photographic versions of several chapters appeared in Living Bird and Audubon Magazine (see the above links). 192) from the timing of seasons to the ferocity of weather to the shape of breeding, wintering, and stopover habitat to even the size of birds themselves. It is often hard to be positive.

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Cyprus Slaughter Slaughtered Research 250

10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2023

” This builds and expands on a classic series of articles by Bret Whitney and Kenn Kaufman that appeared Birding magazine between 1985 and 1987.* The maps are fairly complex, showing breeding range, winter range, year-round range, migration routes, times, and directions. 1985; Part III–June 1986; Part IV–Dec.

Los Angeles 209

Los Angeles North America America Species 209

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Collins Birds of the World is “ a must for the travelling birder ,” as the BBC Wildlife Magazine reviewer has put it. Within a total of 301 tightly-packed but well organised plates, illustrated are all male breeding plumages, as well as females – where significantly different. And I cannot agree more. Chiappe, Luis Huber and Jorge R.

Birds 244

Birds Botswana Africa Ecuador 244

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The goal of Around the World For Penguins is simple: Describe the 18 species of penguin and their breeding grounds “from the perspective of a traveller.” Plantema gives highly detailed information about the weather, terrain, ownership of and access to the islands and coasts where penguins breed.

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Penguins Georgia New Zealand Albatross 278

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2018

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. Black Stork and three pairs of White-tailed Eagles breed here. What has changed in the meantime? eBird bar chart. #2

Serbia 156

Serbia Birds Bulgaria Farming 156

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.” Although most conservation research focuses on northern breeding grounds, many ABA Area birds spend most of the year elsewhere. The Puerto Rican Vireo is declining.

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Puerto Rico Virgin Islands Hawaii United States 152

10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2020

wrote a lengthy article in Outside magazine (Jan. a close childhood friend of Lendrum’s, Howard Waller, breeds falcons for Sheikh Butti bin Maktoum, a member of the Dubai royal family. 2019), and now this book.

Falcons 208

Falcons United Kingdom Zimbabwe Eggs 208

10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2023

Birders often play a vital role in monitoring bird populations, contributing data to scientific research, and participating in citizen science initiatives that help track bird distributions, migration patterns, and breeding behaviors.

United States 147

United States North America Birds America 147

10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2018

In 1987, only 27 were left in the wild and drastic action was taken to save the species: all remaining birds were captured, the California Condor was declared extinct in the wild, and a captive breeding program was begun, initially carried out by the San Diego Wild Animal Park and the Los Angeles Zoo.

California Condor 104

California Condor Oregon California Zoos 104

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

He reasons out answers to both questions, finally stating that, despite what many eyewitnesses wrote, the birds had to have laid more than one egg and that the birds had to have nested more than once a breeding season. Or the destruction of the forests, food source and breeding grounds. Or the absence of legal protection.

2014 160

2014 Killing Michigan Kentucky 160

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

She illustrates her books and magazine articles with her own sketches and watercolor paintings. They reach breeding maturity at four to seven years of age, produce only one chick per nesting season, and only one in three offspring survive to fledging age. Additionally, sandhill cranes reproduce very slowly. Lots to think about.

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 245