10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2014

As I explained to my nephews when they were younger, “The Burrowing Owls don’t think we’re their friends. People on one side of the rope, owls on the other.” Substitute Snowy Owl here if you’d like the modern version). Perhaps it comes from keeping a conscious distance while I observe them. Think about their image.

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Birds Egypt Family Eagles 243

10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2019

Essay #158, “Things Birders Do: Big Years,” starts with the writer’s observation of a Barn Owl and then defines a Big Year, surprisingly celebrating it as opportunities for solitary introspection. Floyd’s writing style draws the reader in, including us in his experiences and observations, making the personal communal.

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Birds North America Breeding America 119

10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2014

The star of such huge concentrations is the massive Jabiru , towering over a diverse collection of South American waterbirds such as Sunbittern , Plumbeous Ibis , and Southern Screamer. The incredible lighting at dawn in the Pantanal is an experience in of itself. I must mention one thing.

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Brazil Birds Blackbirds Paraguay 165

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

I haven’t yet been birding in Europe but whenever I occasionally skim a field guide about the birds on the other side of the Atlantic, I’m always encouraged to find that I’m already familiar with many species found over there, even though most of my birding experience has been limited to eastern North America. I remember the talking (Song?)

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2017 Portugal Rabbits Europe 129

10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 2011

Golf courses, swimming pools, restaurants and a diverse collection of accommodation options. Go win a copy and you might get it before I get off my keister and write my review… Great Horned Owl Taking a Deer Leg Seriously, that really happens in this excellent video of a Great Horned Owl scavenging a deer carcass by Kirk Mona.

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Dominican Republic 2011 Birds Deer 230

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 14, 2014

I’ve tackled Texas, collected in California, fooled around in Florida. I’ve even paid a few calls to Massachusetts in the dead of winter for finches and owls. What an incredible experience. I’ve been fortunate enough to see a lot of the Lower 48. But until this past month, I’d never been to Alaska.

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Alaska Bears Grizzly Bear North Carolina 167

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2020

There are owls in New York City. Big owls: Barred Owls on Riverside Drive and down the path from Harlem Meer, a Great Horned Owl in Central Park’s Ramble. The NYC owls have little to do with the book in front of me except that it too is about birds and people. But–is that it?

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New York City Birds Owls Fox 246

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2013

The Second Atlas’s logo, designed by bird carver Larry Barth, with its perched Scarlet Tanager, Northern Saw-whet Owl, Ruffed Grouse, Black-crowned Night-Heron, Common Raven, and Eastern Bluebird, gives a good idea of the diversity of birds that can be found in Pennsylvania. The resulting book, 616 pages in length, 6.4

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Pennsylvania Breeding Birds Sparrows 258

10,000 Birds

MAY 20, 2014

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. But at last we were in El Triunfo!

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Guatemala Mexico San Diego South America 182

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

Found throughout South America in ever-dwindling numbers these extremely beautiful birds – threatened by habitat destruction and collection for the wild bird trade – are often difficult to see and hard to find. The experience is one of the ornithological highlights in the world. Want to Go Bird Banding in Amazonian Peru?

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Peru Parrots 2011 South America 255

10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2015

GISS—general impression, size, shape—is intuitive, the result of an unconscious cognitive process derived from experience in the field. It is not a handbook, though it approaches species from a collective viewpoint. There is GISS and there is Birding by Impression and they are not the same. The result is a different kind of book.

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Birds New Jersey Science Groups 191

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2016

There are 28 chapters—“Waders,” “Large Waterside Birds,” “Owls and nightjars,” “Birds of prey” (pulling together vultures, hawks and falcons), “Aerial feeders” (swifts, swallows, martins), etc.—plus Britain’s Birds is organized in a very loose taxonomic order, with priority given to grouping together birds that are perceived as similar.

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Ireland Birds Groups Falcons 184

10,000 Birds

MAY 25, 2013

Redgannet was originally conceived as a way to encourage my colleagues (in case you haven’t read the profile, I work as a flight attendant for an international airline) out of the shops and their hotel rooms to experience something that the local natural scene has to offer. Spotted Wood-owl. Don’t carry too much hand baggage.

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Singapore Woodpeckers Parrots Zebras 169

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2023

My book of choice for this time of year is Jerry Liguori’s Hawks At A Distance: Identification of Migrant Raptors, a brilliant tutorial on how to recognize raptors by shape and flight style, distilling years of experience and expertise into 216 pages. This is probably why I number so many hawk books in my collection.

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2011 North America 2005 Eagles 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

.’ Not every species has a GV section, and the amount of description allocated in each section varies from a brief notation on color differences (most species) to the uncertainty of how voice variations relates to color morphs (Vermiculated Screech-Owl). Readers are referred to articles from the bibliography for more information.

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America El Salvador Costa Rica Honduras 214

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2020

So, curious about which birds nest in two places, I quickly found out that it’s Phainopepla, a western bird, a relief because I was concerned that it might have implications for my data collection for the NYS Breeding Bird Atlas. copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley. The Portfolio of Birds is comprised of 87 2-page spreads.

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2020 Birds Groups North America 264

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

This is probably why I number so many hawk books in my collection. Twenty-nine raptor species are covered (no owls): twenty commong migrant hawks and nine additional “Uncommon Migrants and Others.” ” I’m curious about your experiences with these guides or other hawk books (or apps) in the field.

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Eagles 2011 North America Utah 233

10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2024

A two-page portrait of Cuban Trogon is next, its blue, green, red, and white plumage shining, then a two-page depiction of three Ruffs in male summer, male winter, and female plumage, and finally the Galapagos Short-eared Owl on the alert, facing the title page. And I’m so happy I did. This is NOT an image from the book.

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Australia Birds Europe Collecting 242

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2020

Its waterproof fold-able covers bring back childhood memories… I must have had some illustrated children book with similar covers – my fingertips remember the experience. Most of the paintings – especially owls. What I like about the book? As a rule of thumb, all books that I reviewed were of noticeably high quality.

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Japan Asia Birds 2000 246

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 17, 2023

” Another use of the bird name is to describe wealthy potential donors, which a clergyman collecting funds for a hospital thus described as his “ Golden Pheasants ” -as published in the journal (?) “The Hospital” in 1890 ( source ). ” Sounds more sophisticated, right? Jennifer Hill acquired her Ph.D.

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Pandas Research Phoenix Science 130

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 31, 2019

Next to species texts is a novelty I never saw in a field guide before – the QR barcode, a mobile phone readable optical label that in this case links to a relevant Internet Bird Collection website (www.hbw.com/ibc) page, with complementary audiovisual material (dozens of photos, videos and sounds) of the species in question.

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Thailand Zambia Birds Asia 214

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2022

Do you really need to have Kai’s birding experience further detailed not just by month but a level below? So, the birds start collecting mud and small sticks. In an experiment conducted by renowned ornithologists, they sent out applications for a position as a bird model. Yes, you do, trust me. You should try it too.

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Birds Sparrows Protection Humane 244