10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

According to Reedman , murre is the old Cornish world for a Razorbill , and eventually became a vernacular term for alcids more broadly; murrelet, then, makes simple sense as a name for the smaller members of the family. Some murrelets are named for their styling.

North America 115

North America Science Collecting Fish 115

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2014

Earlier this afternoon my small family made a drive out to Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn. Three owls have already had the devices attached and some pretty interesting data is being collected. Do it for science! He brought with him Snow, his stuffed Snowy Owl , so Snow could see his “real owl friends.”

Owls 206

Owls Research Science Collecting 206

10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2015

The bulk of the book is devoted to heavily illustrated accounts of 35 groups of similar looking birds, offering instructions on how to differentiate species by size, structural features, behavior, plumage pattern and general coloration, habitat use, and vocalization. The result is a different kind of book.

Birds 169

Birds New Jersey Science Groups 169

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

The post stimulated some great discussions but not really any additional commentary on the science behind these proposed relationships. Now, you collect the nine pieces of paper from the last generation of copiers. Person 3, however, adds a word somewhere in the page and then passes it on to three other people. Ringer Suh et al.

Parrots 189

Parrots Falcons Indonesia Rodents 189

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. In the back of the book, we find a lengthy section on “Bird Families,” a glossary, an index.

North America 279

North America America Birds California Condor 279

10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2012

Barbets are a group of medium sized, chunky, generally colorful, frugivorous, hole-nesting near-passerines, that are popular targets for anyone birding in the tropics. Originally they were all placed in the family Capitonidae , but over time taxonomists have determined that actual relationships between these barbets are far more complex.

Ethiopia 229

Ethiopia Tanzania Africa Uganda 229

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Their taxonomic affinities have caused great confusion and debate amongst ornithologists; they were originally assigned to the thrush family, then Old World warblers before being shifted to babblers (the last mentioned a common dumping-ground for any aberrant passerines).

South Africa 221

South Africa Lesotho Africa Swaziland 221

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2014

It’s relatively easy to classify birds into family groups based on physical characteristics. We view them as our enemies when they eat our crops and as an extension of our family when we see them at our feeders. Remarkably, there are 59 bird families that have very little cultural significance; these are listed in Appendix III.

Birds 212

Birds Egypt Family Eagles 212

10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2012

The famous Verreaux family who made several expeditions into the province through the 1820’s and 1830’s procuring specimens for rich collectors. Gurney’s Sugarbird was discovered by the Verreaux family and named after wealthy English banker and amateur naturalist John Gurney from Norwich. Image by Hugh Chittenden. Image by Adam Riley.

Mozambique 186

Mozambique South Africa Africa Collecting 186

10,000 Birds

JULY 14, 2011

The following points stood out to me: “Metaves,&# a collection of disparate and puzzling birds recently grouped by the position of a few molecules in one nuclear gene, is probably not an actual clade. .’s landmark 2008 paper ) in the context of each other. Mayr names an assemblage of waterbirds Aequornithes.

Madagascar 164

Madagascar Birds Louisiana Groups 164

10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2015

Science and Conservation , the second section, presents two-page summaries of the diverse research being done around the world about penguins. An interesting way of presenting images resulting from a group project; one that makes us think about the subject rather than the creator. I like it, but I also feel frustrated by it.

Penguins 197

Penguins New Zealand South Africa Albatross 197

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 172

Mauritius Collecting Egypt Cyprus 172

10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2019

Written in a friendly, inclusive style quietly grounded in science, How to Know the Birds is an excellent addition to the growing list of birding essay books by talented birder/writers like Pete Dunne and Kenn Kaufman. ” The essays are arranged in thematic order grouped in six sections: “Spark Bird!”

Birds 115

Birds North America Breeding America 115

10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2018

Describing gull plumage is a combination of science, graphic art, and visual metaphor. I suppose this works with such a small family, but it made my librarian brain ache just a little bit. He notes in the Acknowledgements that photographs were obtained by the publishers initially, and then by requests to gull-oriented Facebook groups.

2004 149

2004 North America America Europe 149

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. Community conservation – valuing what’s around us Kokako and Kaka on Kapiti Guano Still Collected in Peru.Or

Peru 255

Peru Parrots 2011 Research Center 255

10,000 Birds

APRIL 1, 2014

I am also writing it on the tails of an excellent review by Corey who, although he termed his post a collection of “impressions,” really did nail down the great content of The Sibley Guide to Birds, Second Edition , by David Allen Sibley, as well as the minor items that need to be improved. I wish we had the equivalent for color.

North America 237

North America Birds Species America 237

10,000 Birds

APRIL 9, 2011

There are currently 10 species of Treecreepers that form the family Certhiidae, nine in the genus Certhia and an additional oddball in another genus, Salpornis. And consider collecting stamps or other indoor hobbies. I’ll explain. Of course, and as usual, the UK birders are late to the party and just won’t get it.

North America 145

North America Europe America Asia 145

10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2011

Collectively, they’re referred to as the Herring Gull complex. To recap however, grouping them by their slight variation in body size between 53 and 67cm in length (21 to 26in): The biggest two are Yellow-legged and Caspian gulls, distinguishable by the presence or absence of brightly-colored (yellow) legs.

2011 157

2011 Cyprus Deer Species 157