10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Birkhead talks about John Gould in several contexts, including a portrait of him and his family and his bird skins by John Everett Millais, reproduced in the color plates section, the only mention of Elizabeth is her co-authorship with John Gould, of another color plate, ‘Comb-crested Jacana.’

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Dissection Birds Research Europe 218

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2021

At the time, Dreher’s family owned the greatest brewing empire in the Austro-Hungarian Empire and in the 1830s, young Anton embarked on a “Grand Tour” of sorts befitting a promising young brewery heir.

Boston 178

Boston Austria Industry Europe 178

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Few if any species are as emblematic of the Neotropics as Ramphastidae, the family that includes the toucans, toucanets, and aracaris. In addition to the serrated bill, Collared Aracaris have a barbed tongue, which you can see in the bird on the right. Even non-birders can appreciate the huge-billed and colorful birds. Disturbing, no?

Costa Rica 232

Costa Rica Horses Farming Collecting 232

10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2013

We had last experienced this cheerful family of birds in Katherine in the Northern Territory over 13 years ago, so although the population is isolated there they had the same characteristics. They roam in family groups varying from eight birds upwards and have a certain confidence about themselves as they strut around the bush.

Investigation 165

Investigation Australia Family Collecting 165

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

While New Zealand is famous for its endemic oddities, once upon a time New Zealand also had many birds from groups and families that are no longer found here. The mysterious piopio were recently recognized for what they were, New Zealand’s representatives from the oriole family. And eagles. New Zealand had eagles.

Eagles 101

Eagles New Zealand Bald Eagle Collecting 101

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 279

North America America Birds California Condor 279

10,000 Birds

JUNE 24, 2019

Instead, he led a life of leisure: playing billiards and golf (he competed in the 1904 Olympics as a golfer but somehow didn’t finish the course), traveling, and amassing a massive collection of dead birds, over 19,000 all told. Well, no more!

Boston 113

Boston Killing Protection Collecting 113

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Striolated Bunting ( Emberiza srtriolata ) This member of the bunting family (that’s bunting, not sparrow. Sparrows are from the family Passeridae. According to the rather odd and quaint rules for collective terms for birds, groups of Striolated Buntings are called a whole bunch.) A whole bunch coming for a drink.

United Arab Emirates 161

United Arab Emirates Saudi Arabia Oman Yemen 161

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2015

I’m happy to say that Laura Erickson and Marie Read have written a book, Into the Nest: Intimate Views of the Courting, Parenting, and Family Lives of Familiar Birds , that is not too cute and that does not anthropomorphize. Part Two: The Family Live of Selected Species” describes and illustrates the family lives of 49 species in 25 chapters.

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Eggs Family 2006 New York 263

10,000 Birds

JULY 1, 2011

On a recent family trip to Jones Beach, on New York’s Long Island, I had the opportunity to observe a small flock of gulls bathing, resting, and preening in some shallow brackish water that had collected behind the beach. Ugly, right? They can also, because of their odd appearance, be difficult to identify.

New York 180

New York Collecting Sparrows Experience 180

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

In the mean time, a family group of Black-throated Magpie-Jays were frolicking in the breeze high over the dry valley, showing off their exorbitantly long tail streamers. I ran back to grab Andrew, and we were soon watching this large jay busily going about its routine of collecting food and flying off (presumably to a nearby nest).

Mexico 191

Mexico Costa Rica Arizona Birds 191

Critter News

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

Before the ruling, PETA’s attorney Jeffrey Kerr told HuffPost that the animal rights group’s argument was based on the belief that “slavery doesn’t depend upon the species of the slave, any more than it depends upon the race, gender or ethnicity of the slave.

PETA 100

PETA San Diego Whales Whaling 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2020

And, the One-page Index, a quick reference to locating major bird families, is placed in two locations–the front and the back of the book. The Accounts present text on the left and images on the right. Family groups are briefly introduced with descriptions of their shared characteristics. The text pages have a lively look.

North America 207

North America America Hawaii Birds 207

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

I just have to be at the right place at the right time. And then I went and saw six new species so I should have managed to predict at least half of them, right? I took a gamble and got the family out on a (socially-distanced) whale-watching boat on the 12th and was rewarded, finally, with my Queens Great Shearwater !

New York City 151

New York City Birds New York Blackbirds 151

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). There are three to five species described on each page, text on the left, illustrations on the right. McKnight and Vera B. McKnight published in 1987. Species Accounts.

North America 255

North America America Species 2018 255

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

Sure, it’s been well over a month since I returned from my fun-filled, family vacation to Honduras but that doesn’t mean that it’s too late to blog about it, right? Sure, I only spotted eleven species of bird but they were good ones and, more importantly, the whole family had a good time.

Honduras 154

Honduras Birds Butcher Fish 154

10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2014

It has been our home when we have travelled with our tent to various locations over the years and is part of our life and feels like family. The grass may well be taller than your vehicle and you will collect the grass seeds up. The Spear Grass collection from the overgrown track.

Birds 167

Birds Australia Kangaroos Protection 167

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 12, 2012

There was little movement by the family during the heat of the day except to fly to the shoreline for a drink and to cool their feet. Pied Oystercatcher and chick During the heat of the day and when the tide was in and they could not feed they brought the chicks right down to near me with my bike and binoculars.

Eggs 176

Eggs Dogs Shelters Family 176

10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2018

Moth plates from Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Northeastern North America (left plate) and Southeastern North America (two right plates). The guides are organized taxonomically and laid out in the traditional Peterson manner—illustrations on the right, text of the left. Moths are more than bird food. Let that sink in.

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North America America Oklahoma Missouri 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2015

It is not a handbook, though it approaches species from a collective viewpoint. The bird family accounts are wonderfully informative, especially if you are a birder (like me) who knows enough to know what family a bird belongs to, but still has trouble differentiating amongst specific species within the family.

Birds 169

Birds New Jersey Science Groups 169

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2013

Two days ago I went on Facebook and queried some of my exhausted compatriots: if you could have one wish right now – anything in the world – what would it be? “I Got to finish browsing for the fawns and collecting chiggers,” wrote Becky, from an island off North Carolina. Charitable Things.

Wildlife 245

Wildlife Wildlife Rehabilitation Oklahoma New York 245

10,000 Birds

MAY 12, 2013

Its mostly found on the ground in thickets or the edges of dense vegetation and usually in small family parties. Puffbacks belong to the bush-shrike family Malaconotidae and this group are called puffbacks due to several of the species forming a habit of puffing out their fluffy white back feathers during display.

Africa 208

Africa Somalia Pelicans Mozambique 208

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Given the generational battle that will have to be waged, just about the worst thing you can do is alienate half the nation by firing indiscriminate broadsides at what to most people is a cherished family member. He isn’t arguing that the state should impose this, he’s arguing that we should act collectively.

New Zealand 117

New Zealand Possums SPCA Cats 117

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2017

To make up for our collective absence, we did a trip there last weekend. Owned and run by a local family, they treated us very well, even making sure that we had coffee by 4:30 in the morning.

Costa Rica 100

Costa Rica San Jose Bats Birds 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 14, 2011

southern Australia’s cool winter weather and wonderful birds sound mighty appealing right now and 2. 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.

Madagascar 164

Madagascar Birds Louisiana Groups 164

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Do not buy these books, unless you are collecting old bird books. It is organized taxonomically, with families identified by first scientific and then popular name. Each family section starts with a brief description of the birds within that family, their common physical and behavioral traits, and range of habitat.

Trinidad 194

Trinidad Birds South America Research 194

4 The Love Of Animals

JANUARY 10, 2011

11am: Get a call from Munchkin’s new family that they’re driving four hours to pick her up. 3pm: Arrive at the destination within one minute of the forever family coming to pick up the munchkin. 3:05pm: Feel convinced that this family is perfect for the munchkin (already did a virtual home visit a week earlier). I’ll meet them.

Adopt Dog 100

Adopt Dog Dogs Animal Cruelty Boston 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 28, 2014

There were opportunities to go to far flung places like the islands of the Pacific or the coast of Canada or the Yorkshire Dales… Anyway, as I was obsessed by Africa at the time, I leapt at the opportunity to go to Namibia to collect samples of bat DNA for a biogeography project. Oh, and horrifying insect things were everywhere.

Bats 154

Bats Birds Vanuatu Namibia 154

10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2012

Furthermore we have another very special stork-like bird, the regal Shoebill , previously known as the Whale-headed Stork but now placed in its own family. During the intervening years it has spread right down to the far south of the province as well as inland, with hundreds of breeding pairs now in KwaZulu-Natal province.

Africa 239

Africa Tanzania South Africa Uganda 239

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2015

It lies adjacent to Nechisar National Park, where the lone wing of the mysterious Nechisar Nightjar was collected in 1990. Early morning is of course birding prime time and a pre-breakfast stroll around our lodge produced sightings of the lovely Orange-bellied Parrot , which we tracked down to a nesting hole right next to the restaurant.

Ethiopia 240

Ethiopia Sudan Leopards Game 240

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Well-represented exotic families include starlings, ducks and doves and there are also many more individual species that now thrive here. The species is recorded in the form of a published photograph or a specimen archived in an ornithological collection. There has to a logical reason. A pair of Hill Mynahs in Miami.

Miami 133

Miami Parrots Research Birds 133

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 4, 2016

My visit to the park in southwestern Utah commenced with us (us being me and my family, and an extended number of in-laws, eleven people in total, four of us kids under ten) driving through Zion late in the evening on Saturday, 26 December, in order to get to our lodging just east of the park in Zion Pionderosa Ranch Resort.

Birds 101

Birds Mules Utah Deer 101

10,000 Birds

JUNE 24, 2012

But I’m not talking about owling, or listening for rails, or even pointing a microphone skyward to collect flight calls of migrants. My friend on the end of the line got right to the point: “What does a Kingfisher look like?” I know you can bird in dark in New York and Newcastle, Weyburn and Walla Walla.

Bald Eagle 171

Bald Eagle Breeding Raised Whales 171

4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 1, 2011

People ask me about my favorite story in the collection. After talking to Barb’s family, there wasn’t a doubt in my mind that they were anticipating her passing with a sense of weary relief, so I was surprised when the hospice nurse called me on the day of Barb’s death and asked me to come out to the home quickly. Not a standard?”. “No,

Pit Bulls 100

Pit Bulls AKC Rattlesnake Shelters 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 17, 2012

I present here an annotated collection of photos documenting the entry of new parrotlets into this world. The eyes are still not developed enough to open, and the feet are just strong enough to help right a toppled chick. A pair of Green-rumped Parrotlets It all starts when a pair of parrotlets get that glint in their eyes.

Eggs 268

Eggs Venezuela Porcupines 2008 268

10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2011

If you liked this post featuring Bufflehead images why not check out 10,000 Clicks , our collection of photo-galleries? Hes only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasnt working as a union representative or spending time with his family. Wicked, right? Get yours today!

2011 150

2011 Ducks Deer New York 150

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2021

If you had your choice of one bird family to pursue, to seek out and observe and photograph and kvell over, which one would you choose? A passion for one bird family is also very useful. It provides goals and a definite direction for your birding travels and thoughts; sometimes it even becomes the basis of a book!

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Costa Rica Brazil Ecuador Bolivia 264