10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2013

Handing out T-shirts at the registration desk with a summer intern from the Field Museum (one of the conference’s sponsoring groups) gave me a good feel for who was around and what ornithologists are like. Exhibitors ranged from book publishers to purveyors of telemetry equipment to local bird and wildlife groups.

San Diego 182

San Diego Ostriches Chicago Colorado 182

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. Color-coded page headings denote bird groups, matched by color-coded bird silhouette icons located midway down the edge of the page.

North America 279

North America America Birds California Condor 279

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2013

En route they will be “birding in nearly every country in mainland North and South America,” and, as they say on their excellent blog , “Our journey is about collecting valuable data on bird species, their status and distribution, current conservation issues, and more along the way.

South America 191

South America San Diego Mexico America 191

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2019

So we don’t get lost in the new re-arrangements, species covered in the book are listed in the Introduction in taxonomic sequence, grouped together by genus, accompanied by explanations of changes. So, there are separate descriptions for birds normally grouped in the Savannah Sparrow, Fox Sparrow, and Dark-eyed Junco complexes.

North America 157

North America Sparrows America United States 157

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

There were three profound questions my birding group discussed while we birded Trinidad and Tobago, back in December 2012: (1) How many Bananaquits could fit on a banana? (2) Do not buy these books, unless you are collecting old bird books. 2) Which hummingbird was more beautiful—Tufted Coquette or Ruby-topaz Hummingbird? (3)

Trinidad 205

Trinidad Birds South America Research 205

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

It depicted a Common Loon ( Gavia immer ) sitting on eggs on a seemingly crude nest. Published in 1966, it is a collection of brief profiles and magnificent portraits of 56 of the region’s most characteristic birds. Common Loon ( Gavia immer) This was a different artist. It caught my full attention and entranced me.

Birds 229

Birds Woodpeckers Canada Collecting 229

10,000 Birds

JULY 1, 2014

I enjoy collecting children’s books about birds and nature that I come across in the expected (book stores) and unexpected (academic library conference reports) places. The targeted age group is 6 to 11 years. Spanish settlers arrived in 1493 and called the birds Coterras. Other Europeans came. It really isn’t.

Puerto Rico 241

Puerto Rico Parrots New York City 2013 241

10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2011

Currently she does full time voluntary work for the local Australasian Wader Study Group, which aims to understand and analyze the factors determining shorebird numbers in a rapidly changing world. These do lay eggs on land and are (reasonably) mobile once they hit the beach. It seems like there is great diversity in this continent.

Australia 153

Australia 2011 Sharks Deer 153

10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2020

The proprietor of our ecolodge guides my small group of birders up a steep slope where we see, just at the point where a scope view deteriorates into pixels, a huge bird—a Chaco Eagle, also known as a Crowned Eagle—on a huge nest. McWilliam realizes he’s dealing someone special, a career falcon egg-thief. Author Joshua Hammer.

Falcons 224

Falcons United Kingdom Zimbabwe Eggs 224

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

Johnson is collecting myths about owls from cultures around the world and is also presiding over a 12-year Burrowing Owl Project that seeks to collect DNA samples, vocalizations, morphological data and map locations for every Burrowing Owl subspecies the world over. In some ways, this is a puzzling chapter.

Owls 224

Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 224

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2024

When not climbing, he collected species, and thus a number of birds are named after him. Interestingly, only about half of the helpers are related to the breeding pair … … and only the ones not related to the pair gained some parentage, either by sneaking in some sex with the breeding female or by adding an egg.

Birds 235

Birds Indonesia Breeding Charlotte 235

10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2018

According to cladists, every organism is a member of any group of organisms that includes it. But they can’t because the first tetrapod that emerged from the fish-with-feet group happen to have four limbs, and all we tetrapods are stuck with that feature. Cladistics is not a way of looking at groups of organisms. Think about it.

Monkeys 144

Monkeys Gorillas Whales Whaling 144

10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2022

Once the egg has been laid, the female is chased away and the males hatch it.” Apparently , a group of loons can go by many names, including a raft, a water dance, a cry, and an asylum (though I have to say some of these sound a bit made up to me). So will the Red-flanked Bluetail.

Birds 221

Birds China Pythons Breeding 221

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

In the former, a female lays her fertilized egg in the nest of another species, in the hopes that her offspring will be raised by the unwitting hosts. Larger groups of helping birds were parasitized less frequently than smaller groups, at two different study sites. fledglings per group per season.

Breeders 210

Breeders Breeding Birds Groups 210

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2011

This is also a hard question to address because most data on animal size distribution does not compare across classes of animals, and/or focuses on groups that would not be helpful. Or, we might expect to see them all be diurnal or nocturnal (as groups) but differentiate in body size.

Mammals 179

Mammals Rodents Birds Reptiles 179

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Scientific names have been reviewed by the Working Group on Avian Nomenclature of the International Ornithologists’ Union. Within each group, birds in the same family are grouped together and birds in the same genus “usually occur consecutively.” So, there are two basic sections–marine and freshwater birds (pp.

Australia 109

Australia Birds Penguins 2015 109

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2021

This may have been partly a leftover from the Victorian fascination with egg collecting (the infamous passion known as oology), but probably more from people’s burgeoning interest in the nests and eggs found in their gardens and fields, gateway artifacts to a newer hobby called birdwatching. Baicich and Colin J.

Eggs 244

Eggs Birds United States Sparrows 244

10,000 Birds

APRIL 30, 2011

After mating, a single egg is laid and incubation duties are shared by both parents. The egg can stand a fair degree of chilling, so a single parent can afford to leave the burrow for sometime to feed without losing the egg if its partner does not return quickly. While one bird sits, its mate feeds out at sea for a week or so.

United Kingdom 161

United Kingdom Brazil Eggs Abandon 161

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

The Achiever’s survey voyages took place from 2005 to 2008; the goal was to collect baseline data on sea mammals and marine birds. It’s a small group of 10 to 12 researchers and crew members, and Fox is the sole person responsible for the bird surveys. ” There are amazing stories here.

Fox 100

Fox Albatross Geese Bald Eagle 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2012

Family and genus sections all begin with descriptions of what features the group has in common and how individuals differ. Common and differing traits will include type of coloring, thorax patterning, how they perch or fly, how they copulate, and how they oviposit, lay eggs. With odonates, there are always exceptions!

United States 241

United States Costa Rica Massachusetts North America 241

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2013

The where and how of egg laying and larva emergence is briefly treated, with page references to larval drawings at the back of the book. Life cycles of odonata are described with a minimum of scientific language, accompanied by photographs illustrating stages–egg laying, larva, emergence, aging, mating, dispersal.

Ireland 180

Ireland France Breeding Eggs 180

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 5, 2014

A History of Birdwatching in 100 Objects uses stuff, redefined as ‘objects’, a term that gives an archival sheen to everyday items, to tell our collective history. I expected a picture book; I got a collection of essays! 32, 1887) and Egg collection (no. Number 57, Great Northern?

Mauritius 173

Mauritius Collecting Egypt Cyprus 173

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

Even the first explorers to Australia documented there was a risk of extinction of birds and animals into the future and subsequently decided to collect as many specimens as possible! The lack of people does not mean we have any less extinct or threatened bird species than other countries.

Species 176

Species Australia Birds Parrots 176

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2012

African Harrier-Hawks, snakes and other predators frequently raid weaver colonies to rob the nests of eggs and chicks. Anaplectes – Red-headed Weaver A male Red-headed Weaver collecting shoots for building his nest. Red-headed Malimbe is the most widespread species in the genus. Photo taken by Adam Riley in Ghana.

Tanzania 232

Tanzania Buffalo Kenya Namibia 232

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 30, 2023

If the male’s color fades after the first egg, the female reacts by laying a smaller second egg – seemingly deciding that it is better to cut her losses as the male apparently is the avian equivalent of a deadbeat father. At Sepilok, it can be hard to avoid taking photos of some non-birds, such as primates.

Woodpeckers 222

Woodpeckers Birds Eggs India 222

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 17, 2022

In terms of breeding behavior, starlings are a diversified group – some use helpers, others do not. She also laid eggs in Melba Finch nests. The rationale behind it is that apparently, gold would be too expensive or too difficult to achieve a color, thus making the flag unsuitable for an inclusive democracy. Red-billed Firefinch.

South Africa 197

South Africa Africa Birds Cape Verde 197

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The 10-page section aptly named “Age, sex, and identification of ducks using in-hand upperwing patterns” is a guide to just that, utilizing images from two Washington State museum collections. A mid-book extension of the introductory section on Aging and Sexing Waterfowl, this is a unique tool that advanced birders will love.

Ducks 124

Ducks North America Geese Hunters 124