10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Britain’s Birds is organized in a very loose taxonomic order, with priority given to grouping together birds that are perceived as similar. Browsing is facilitated by section titles at the top of each left-hand page and smaller group titles on the upper right-hand page. plus a chapter on “Vagrant landbirds from North America.”

Ireland 146

Ireland Birds Groups Falcons 146

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2017

Here’s a sample of Plate 30, Bat Falcon and Orange-Breasted Falcon (pp. 84-85, though it’s hard to tell because there is no pagination in this section, simply plate numbers): And, here is a sample of the first two pages of the three-page Species Account for Bat Falcon (pp.

Mexico 168

Mexico America North America Falcons 168

10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2020

Recently, an interdisciplinary group published a paper using eBird data in the journal Landscape and Urban Planning. We decided to go with birds mainly because we could find data from three different websites (eBird, iNaturalist, and Flickr, which also has more bird pictures than most other groups of animals).

Chicago 277

Chicago Research Illinois Michigan 277

10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2019

No other characters or group of characters are described so persistently with the use of their religious, ethnic, or racial names. Botibol” (p. The feather industry was “a known network of mostly Jewish employers between which the workers passed, were dropped and picked up again” (p. There is no effort at context.

Industry 120

Industry Virginia Portland Campaign 120

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

Johnson is collecting myths about owls from cultures around the world and is also presiding over a 12-year Burrowing Owl Project that seeks to collect DNA samples, vocalizations, morphological data and map locations for every Burrowing Owl subspecies the world over. In some ways, this is a puzzling chapter.

Owls 217

Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 217

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2011

This is also a hard question to address because most data on animal size distribution does not compare across classes of animals, and/or focuses on groups that would not be helpful. There are 200 animals in each sample, and I presume that this is a random subset of the larger sample of over 400 or so in each category.

Mammals 177

Mammals Rodents Birds Reptiles 177

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 13, 2011

DNA evidence then indicated that they are an ancient group mostly closely related to the bizarre and wildly different rockfowls and they were therefore contentiously placed in the Picathartes family, before finally finding a contented home in their own family, Chaetopidae.

South Africa 228

South Africa Lesotho Africa Swaziland 228

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Scientific names have been reviewed by the Working Group on Avian Nomenclature of the International Ornithologists’ Union. Within each group, birds in the same family are grouped together and birds in the same genus “usually occur consecutively.” So, there are two basic sections–marine and freshwater birds (pp.

Australia 108

Australia Birds Penguins 2015 108

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Here’s a sample of how that section reads: “Ducks have 14-18 feathers (rectrices). The 10-page section aptly named “Age, sex, and identification of ducks using in-hand upperwing patterns” is a guide to just that, utilizing images from two Washington State museum collections.

Ducks 121

Ducks North America Geese Hunters 121