10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2016

From a recent article in Nature , “This bird acts like it has four sexes,” says Christopher Balakrishnan, an evolutionary biologist at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, who worked with Tuttle and Gonser. One individual can only mate with one-quarter of the population.

Rats 108

Rats Sparrows Birds North Carolina 108

10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2012

” The interlocking wheels of crabs, migration, birds, tides, marsh, beach, fishermen and researchers are described in an unhurried pace in ten chapters. Once used as fertilizer, the crabs are now harvested as bait for common whelk and bled for an extract used in medical research.

Delaware 183

Delaware New Jersey Research Eggs 183

10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2018

The Northeast goes as north as southern Ontario, Quebec, and North Brunswick, west to the western borders of Minnesota, Iowa, and Missouri, and south to the southern borders or Missouri, Kentucky, and Virginia. If you bird in eastern North America, northeast or southeast, these are volumes you will want in your field guide collection.

North America 100

North America America Oklahoma Missouri 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 1, 2014

I enjoy collecting children’s books about birds and nature that I come across in the expected (book stores) and unexpected (academic library conference reports) places. The authors note that while the baby bluebirds are intentionally portrayed as caricatures, the subject birds are carefully researched.

Puerto Rico 241

Puerto Rico Parrots New York City 2013 241

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Tundra Swan, Cygnus columbianus, photographed above by Ken Behrens, flies nonstop from staging areas in North Dakota to Chesapeake Bay and eastern North Carolina, a fact indicated by both arrows and text. This makes researching a species much more time consuming than it should be. Some maps are quite busy.

Ducks 240

Ducks Groups Species North America 240