Collecting Family Killing Research 
10,000 Birds
JULY 4, 2023
Ackerman’s new book is about owls and owl research–the knowledge recently and currently being discovered through DNA analysis, new-tech tracking and monitoring, and old-fashioned fieldwork under the auspices of organizations like the Global Owl Project and the Owl Research Institute.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
Common Guillemot research at Skomer Island, Wales. Birkhead rightly credits Yapp and his obsessive research for a lot of what we know about medieval falconry, but it’s not clear why he needs to describe the scholar’s notorious curmudgeonly personality or his sad old age.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 5, 2024
Elizabeth spent two years in Australia, traveling there with John and her oldest son, then living with acquaintances and relatives in Tasmania, Sydney, and Yarrundi while John traipsed across the continent shooting birds, collecting skins. And I’m so happy I did. and died 15 August 1841. Issues of authorship are also explored.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 7, 2023
Its goal was to limit the greedy collecting of birds killed for the plume trade, the bird meat trade (as in the wholesale slaughter of the Passenger Pigeon), and for sport (again, the Passenger Pigeon and declining numbers of waterfowl). .” But this is not a hagiography.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
The Plain Sunbird is the plain vanilla version of the otherwise often very colorful family (ok, a very low-budget sort of joke). One paper suggests that the Ruby-cheeked Sunbird primarily feeds on insects rather than on nectar, the more common food of sunbirds.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 2, 2021
The guide has been expertly, even lovingly revised, expanded and updated (as the authors’ names indicate, this is largely a family affair). Originally organized by structure and ecology, they have been reclassified according to relationships discovered by DNA research. McKnight and Vera B. McKnight published in 1987.
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. That’s a lot of books about a bird family that cannot fly. It is one that can be shared with friends and family (who does not adore penguins?), It is not an essential purchase.
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