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 201

Trinidad Birds South America Research 201

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2021

Yes, it’s nice to have information on 817 birds, and it’s wonderful to have full descriptions and photographs of birds commonly seen in Central and South America. Using the icons to locate specific bird families takes a little getting used to, but if you do it often it works well as a finding tool. SPECIES ACCOUNTS.

North America 279

North America America Birds California Condor 279

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

I’m missing my family and that probably doesn’t leave me in the best frame of mind to write. The resident Peregrine Falcons have been fattening up on them, piles of feathers mark their collective demise on my favourite birding spot. But it is likely. Especially because my summer birds are gone.

Tethering 179

Tethering Neglecting South America Dogs 179

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 230

South Africa Lesotho Africa Swaziland 230

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

It actually makes a lot of sense, the geographic features of the isthmus between North America (including Mexico, because Mexico is part of North America) and South America cut across political lines, as do birds. One field guide, seven countries. Text is on the left, plates are on the right.

America 214

America El Salvador Costa Rica Honduras 214

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

Not, as Linneaus thought, an ostrich, nor even, as later scientists concluded, a distant cousin of pigeons deserving of family rank, it was an honest-to-goodness pigeon, deeply embedded within the family Columbidae. Specimens were collected in 1904, and the bird has not been recorded with certainty since.

Solomon Islands 278

Solomon Islands Guinea Mauritius Humane 278

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 South America 255

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2011

crossing the Carribean and winding up in South America? For millenia, many of the world’s collective cultures have had an exceptionally strong anthropocentric bias when looking at the value of life. Can you imagine doing this when you are a couple of months old? Let’s cover the basics. But I digress.

Emotional 212

Emotional Science Birds Mammals 212

10,000 Birds

JULY 17, 2012

I present here an annotated collection of photos documenting the entry of new parrotlets into this world. The behavior of the happy Forpus family after they leave the nest is still a relatively unknown subject, and is currently a subject of the Forpus project’s research.

Eggs 269

Eggs Venezuela Porcupines 2008 269

10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2018

Gulls of the World is meant to cover more geographic area (add South America, Australia and the Arctic and any other parts of the world not covered in the first book) and less detail. I suppose this works with such a small family, but it made my librarian brain ache just a little bit. Browsing through this book is tough.

2004 157

2004 North America America Europe 157