10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 30, 2022
Lees and Gilroy delineate vagrancy status and trends for every bird family worldwide, highlighting examples, synthesizing research, and framing it all with their own thoughts and conclusions. It’s a unique title; twitchers and naturalists interested in migration will find it fascinating reading and valuable for future reference.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 10, 2021
It is not that close of a relative of the Northern Mockingbird , being in the same family, but a different genus. That emotional connection earned it my #2 spot. I also used to hear wild-collected caged Solitaires in suburban neighborhoods, but am delighted to report that that terrible practice seems to have mostly disappeared.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 2, 2012
” They stroll around in their dark cloaks and come to collect the dead. Add that sense of impending doom to an atypical appearance and you get a bird that stirs strong emotions in people. This is a family site so I won’t mention the what it managed to extract from that bag of garbage. I happen to love them.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 2, 2015
Second, reading about birds courting and parenting brings out the tendency to identify, which leads directly to anthropomorphism, the tendency to assign birds human emotions and thoughts. Part Two: The Family Live of Selected Species” describes and illustrates the family lives of 49 species in 25 chapters. But special.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 7, 2014
It’s relatively easy to classify birds into family groups based on physical characteristics. We sing about them, we paint them, we use them as mythic and poetic symbols for our spiritual and emotional feelings, we wear them in myriad and often colorful ways, we adopt them as household pets. So, I just sit here, amazed at this book.
10,000 Birds
MAY 4, 2021
Marybeth learns as she birds, embraces listing goals as a means of engaging with community, unabashedly enjoys a little competition, struggles to balance her absolute joy in birding with unexpected, life-and-death family obligations. ’ “Is this going to be a collection of essays?” ” I wondered.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 9, 2013
Got to finish browsing for the fawns and collecting chiggers,” wrote Becky, from an island off North Carolina. They’d also have to pay for every aspect of care the injured bird requires, as well as the emotional suffering of the wildlife rehabilitator!”. “I don’t want to be too hasty in my response,” wrote Gay in Virginia.
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