10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2015

And of eggs and nests and birds on nests. In the all too brief introduction to the book, they state, “This book aims to shed light on the family lives of birds, a topic that has captured our collective imagination and enriched our language despite being shrouded in mystery.”. Egg biology, from Part I. Peregrine Falcon nests.

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Eggs Family 2006 New York 263

10,000 Birds

APRIL 25, 2022

However, the lockdown forces me to go deeper and deeper into my photo collection, if I want to write anything at all. If you are in a cooperative mood, you may acknowledge the small “mane” of the male on the right side of the photo below. And that seems to be the only vaguely satisfying thing left to do at the moment.

Australia 180

Australia Birds Koalas Parrots 180

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

With populations plunging dramatically over the last decade, researchers from the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust, Birds Russia, and a number of other conservation organizations made the always-controversial call to pluck eggs from the imperiled wild population and establish a captive breeding program as a final hedge against extinction.

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Eggs Russia Research Breeding 163

10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2016

After collecting nearly 70K bird photos, he felt that it was time to share them, so he now has his bird blog in order to do just that! Once the nest was done, she began sitting on it, preparing to lay her eggs. Many times she would even buzz over look me right in the eye, and then go back to feeding. Mom flies by with lunch.

San Diego 164

San Diego Seattle Eggs California 164

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2013

Especially happily that the meeting was held at the Palmer House Hilton, right near my office, so that I was able to spend my morning volunteering and still put in a full day at work.). Other hardy souls signed up for an early morning “Ostrich Run” 5k, with the prizes beinging–you guessed it–actual ostrich eggs.

San Diego 172

San Diego Ostriches Chicago Colorado 172

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 12, 2012

After 28 days of sharing the duty of sitting on three eggs we finally had the arrival of our first Pied Oystercatcher chicks for 2012 on Friday August 3rd. It is unusual for three eggs to be laid here in Broome and many eggs do not even hatch due to predation each season.

Eggs 176

Eggs Dogs Shelters Family 176

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2021

A small range map is placed in the upper right/left hand corner showing summer, winter, resident, migration, and rare locations. 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.

North America 278

North America America Birds California Condor 278

10,000 Birds

MARCH 23, 2012

Once upon a time, people and especially children felt free to interact with wild birds in any way that would satisfy their curiousity — watching and learning, yes, but also harassing and chasing, collecting eggs and nests, stealing nestlings as “pets”, and killing birds for amateur taxidermy efforts.

Montana 163

Montana Geese Blackbirds Canada 163

10,000 Birds

APRIL 17, 2011

A schoolboy egg collection and a house near the sea, as well as a childhood that allowed me to become acquainted with almost every nook and cranny for 4km in any direction. Outside under a big sky, feeling the warmth of the sun and letting the sights and sounds of the birds wash over me feels like the right way to be.

Birds 154

Birds Blackbirds Eggs Collecting 154

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 14, 2015

What wasn’t publicised at the time, but the scientist later both admitted and owned, is that the kingfisher was then killed and collected for scientific reasons. I’m not going to rehash the arguments for scientific collecting here. The large room the collection was held in was a profoundly weird place. Bush Wrens.

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Collecting Solomon Islands New Zealand Fiji 214

10,000 Birds

MAY 29, 2011

Right now it is almost all male birds, staking out territories, filling the tundra with song. Breeding is well underway and everywhere you look the Glaucous Gulls are, ahem, engaged or collecting grasses and sedges for nests. Most of the breeding birds returning here will arrive within the next 10 days to two weeks. And battles.

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Bald Eagle Iceland Owls North America 125

10,000 Birds

APRIL 11, 2013

Peripatetic ornithologist Nick Sly has long been a friend of the blog here and has contributed such classics as Green-rumped Parrotlets from Egg to Adult and Forpus passerinus and the Ornithologists of Masaguaral. Please read and then vote for either Nick or Maria’s research! Thanks for your support!

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Panama Research Investigation Chickens 201

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

The team explored Nevada and Utah, with Ridgway collecting thousands of bird specimen, plus nests and eggs for the Smithsonian. Ridgway spent the rest of his career in the Castle, the Smithsonian building that then housed the National Museum’s bird collection.

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Collecting Illinois United States Science 145

10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2020

It didn’t occur to me till I started reading The Falcon Thief: A True Tale of Adventure, Treachery, and the Hunt for the Perfect Bird that there was also a possible threat to the eagle herself: poachers, who steal raptor eggs and chicks. McWilliam realizes he’s dealing someone special, a career falcon egg-thief.

Falcons 200

Falcons United Kingdom Zimbabwe Eggs 200

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. In the lower right-hand corner we see the partial figure of a bespectacled hiker. This plate is right at the center of the book. Other Europeans came.

Puerto Rico 227

Puerto Rico Parrots New York City 2013 227

10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2011

Speaking of pregnant snakes, do sea snakes lay their eggs ashore like sea turtles or do they keep them internally until the young are ready to hatch/ be born, like some sharks? These do lay eggs on land and are (reasonably) mobile once they hit the beach. Wicked, right? It seems like there is great diversity in this continent.

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Australia 2011 Sharks Deer 149

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Do not buy these books, unless you are collecting old bird books. Often, as I have been investigating the contents of a nest by making a small hole in the side, the parent birds have come right to the nest, where they immediately begin to repair the damage even before my departure!”. He is now a director of the Phelps Foundation.

Trinidad 189

Trinidad Birds South America Research 189

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 12, 2022

We had a nice collection of birds of prey for the day. In spite of our proximity, it spent a good while positioned as if it had eggs there. So, as they say here in Mexico, we got out of bed on the right side! There weren’t any Red-tailed Hawks. (I In spite of being a winter migrant, which only reproduces in the U.S.

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Falcons Abandon Abandoning Abandonment 177

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2022

The Wryneck is full of stunning photos of Wrynecks–anting, flying, nesting, writhing, being ringed, their habitat areas, nests, eggs, and closeups of museum specimens. I somehow knew right away that the bird I saw was a Wryneck. copyright © 2022 Gerard Gorman. Merriam-Webster, [link].

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Woodpeckers Hungary Thailand 2014 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 215

Birds Indonesia Breeding Charlotte 215

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Alternatively, imagine I set the dial to produce simple heat, like the kind that comes out of your stove to cook your scrambled eggs. The kind of energy produced by a cell phone signal is way more like the heat that cooks your eggs than like the scary radiation that comes form an H-bomb or X-ray machine or whatever.

Mammals 225

Mammals Birds Fish Cooking 225

10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2018

Therefore, humans are fish with feet, right? That strategy determined the fact that all mammals would have the risk of somatic mutations that accumulate over time affecting their eggs. Er, I mean, to not include the whales when you collect data on food type, body size, and ranging patterns. Think about it. But here’s the thing.

Monkeys 132

Monkeys Gorillas Whales Whaling 132

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2012

Species accounts are sequential, one running right after the other. 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. This is an excellent landmark field guide that belongs in every naturalist’s collection. This one is 2.5

United States 225

United States Costa Rica Massachusetts North America 225

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Illustrations were created using diverse visual and physical source materials–skin collections from Australian museums and a database of over 300,000 photographs (plus, of course, the artists’ years of field experience). Some offer nest information, egg information, breeding timeline, in flight views, etc.

Australia 105

Australia Birds Penguins 2015 105

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2011

For instance, I can lay my hands on data for primates and rodents (because I’ve collected those data for research) but I don’t have comparable data for bovids (just selected data) and zero data for birds (in spreadsheets on my computer). The largest bird, forming the short bar on the right of the bird histogram, is a swan.

Mammals 172

Mammals Rodents Birds Reptiles 172

10,000 Birds

JULY 10, 2012

Rueppell’s (facing left) and White-backed (three birds facing right) Vultures have worryingly leapt two categories from Near-Threatened to Endangered. An adult (left) and subadult (right) White-backed Vulture with full crops after feeding on the remains of a Lion kill, Ndutu, Tanzania by Adam Riley.

Endangered Species 183

Endangered Species Species South Africa Morocco 183

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 4, 2015

The adult Pied Oystercatchers were still at their non-breeding site at Gantheaume Point and will no doubt lay their first eggs for 2015 in the first week of July. It was stood beside a locally marked Grey-tailed Tattler , which only carried a faded plain yellow flag and metal band on its right leg. What a nice way to end the year!

2015 177

2015 2014 Ducks Ponies 177

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2021

The holidays started early this year, with the first night of Hannukah coming right at the end of Thanksgiving weekend! We review what the publishers, distillers, or manufacturers send us, or what catches our collective eye, or what we have time for. And similarly with 99 other birds — raptors, songbirds, ducks, and otherwise.

Birds 239

Birds Colombia Collecting Bald Eagle 239

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2018

Mechanisation (ploughing and harvesting in particular), chemical fertilisers and pesticides, fire and predation all contribute to high mortality of eggs, chicks, juveniles and incubating females. In the last year, a broken bustard eggshell was found, but since no displaying was observed, those could have been unfertilized eggs.

Hungary 138

Hungary Serbia Austria Eggs 138

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. A right-hand sidebar encapsulates basic facts–common or scarce, widespread or endangered, overall length and hindwing length, where to look, observation tips, look-alikes (just a list).

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Ireland France Breeding Eggs 168

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! It is correct, of course, to think of extinction this way during the Holocene Extinction, which we are living through right now. What a horror!

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Species Australia Birds Parrots 174

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. the Black-naped Monarch should not.

Woodpeckers 198

Woodpeckers Birds Eggs India 198

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 213

Tanzania Buffalo Kenya Namibia 213

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 17, 2022

She also laid eggs in Melba Finch nests. Serves the bird right for not living close to European ornithologists. Red-billed Firefinch. Her daughter, genetically an indigobird, imprinted on her Melba Finch foster parents and then mated with a male paradise whydah mimicking Melba Finch song. Some people wonder whether god exists.

South Africa 179

South Africa Africa Birds Cape Verde 179

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 25, 2022

Echidna-egg laying mammal-500th post. Great Bowerbirds collecting blue items. If you search in the box on the right hand side of the website I am sure you will find some Australian birds of interest! One Tree Hill-Dandenong Ranges National Park. Geelong-Rippleside Park to Eastern Park. Foster to Fish Creek. Foster to Toora.

Australia 147

Australia Singapore Birds Battery 147

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. And, let’s face it, he is right. I only wish that it did not use such a dark background. Barker and Carrol L.

Ducks 114

Ducks North America Geese Hunters 114