10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2016

A side benefit is that, if you’re an eBird junky like me, you get a cool collection of personal locations out near the continental shelf, a testimony to hours and days spent in this incredible place and the ways changing conditions can affect your route. Conditions, and birds, can be wildly different from one day to the next out there.

Whales 100

Whales Whaling North Carolina Mammals 100

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

A little longer than its predecessor (by eight pages to be exact), the East Coast guide is your handy dandy, pocket-sized, all-in-one guide to the seabirds, marine mammals, sea turtles, fish, and other creatures you are likely to encounter on pelagics or whale watching trips, from Bar Harbor, Maine to Ponce de Leon Inlet, Florida.

Pennsylvania 165

Pennsylvania Texas Whales Whaling 165

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 23, 2013

Birds are less compelling to human interest than our fellow primates, in many regards, but surely they are more arresting than a big wad of tentacled whale chow. Come on — obviously Photoshopped! Now why should this be? Unexplained! and Canada” often with cameras at ready.

Apes 160

Apes Birds Woodpeckers Primates 160

4 The Love Of Animals

MAY 14, 2012

We were glued to the TV when Discovery Chanel was airing Frozen Planet, and we have been even more enthralled now that we have the entire collection on DVD (they also have it in Blu-Ray). We loved seeing penguins, whales, polar bears, and wolves.

Polar Bears 100

Polar Bears Penguins Wolves Whales 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 9, 2017

Collectively, these federal lands and marine sanctuaries are of critical importance to many of the seabirds seen on pelagic birding trips in the Pacific. These sanctuaries include some of the most productive waters in the Pacific. Photos: (Laysan Albatross, Black-footed Albatross and Northern Fulmar ) by Jason Crotty.

Albatross 138

Albatross Hawaii Alaska Puerto Rico 138

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. Previously known as the Whale-headed Stork, its scientific name of Balaeniceps rex translates as “King Whalehead”, in reference to its giant whale or shoe-shaped head and bill.

Africa 239

Africa Tanzania South Africa Uganda 239

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

Now, you collect the nine pieces of paper from the last generation of copiers. Persons 1 and 2 copy the page exactly and each give it to three other people. Person 3, however, adds a word somewhere in the page and then passes it on to three other people.

Parrots 189

Parrots Falcons Indonesia Rodents 189

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 7, 2021

This book is part of the Lynx Illustrated Checklists collection created from the wealth of data, illustrations and maps compiled for the Handbook of the Mammals of the World (HMW) series which has been distilled into handbooks that can be easily carried into the field. Larger species, that is, excluding dolphins and whales.

Madagascar 241

Madagascar Mammals Lemurs Seychelles 241

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. Birds like American Coots and Long-eared Owls in Arviat, to Bald Eagles in Whale Cove. 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

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

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 ! The next day, two days after his original sighting, it was refound and I even collected poop so we could hopefully do a DNA analysis. And I predicted this one too! Two-for-two!

New York City 151

New York City Birds New York Blackbirds 151

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2012

Wilson’s Storm Petrel Within the storm petrel collective, Black-bellied Storm Petrel migrate northwards through the trawling grounds during the September to October period.

Albatross 181

Albatross Penguins Dolphins Whales 181

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 22, 2020

This book is part of the Lynx Illustrated Checklists collection created from the wealth of data, illustrations and maps compiled for the Handbook of the Mammals of the World series which has been distilled into portable books that can be easily carried into the field. Larger species, that is, excluding dolphins and whales.

Asia 176

Asia Mammals Sri Lanka Bhutan 176

10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2012

Life Along the Delaware Bay starts with a brief cultural history of the Bay, showing the sod dikes farmers built to drain the marshes, and how Cape May went from being a whaling town to a Victorian beach resort to the home of the Cape May Hawk Watch.

Delaware 179

Delaware New Jersey Research Eggs 179

10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2018

For example, “the Ungulata include hooved animals with multi-chambered stomachs, except the whales.”. A term like “hooved animals” is monophyletic and a perfectly sound adaptive group, except for the whales. Er, I mean, to not include the whales when you collect data on food type, body size, and ranging patterns.

Monkeys 136

Monkeys Gorillas Whales Whaling 136

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 18, 2013

After checking with a docent to make sure that the bird wasn’t a hazard to the collection I watched it for some time – I even tried to take its picture, but the lighting was less than optimal and the camera in my phone somewhat potato-like. The pigeon seemed very comfortable.

Elephants 156

Elephants Mammals Buffalo Gorillas 156

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

It is acceptable to point out other sea creatures–dolphins or whales or dragonflies–but the main goal is the observation and identification of the birds. This, I am told, is seawatching , a birding activity in which one stands in one place, sometimes for hours, and watches for birds of the sea and lake and river.

Ducks 231

Ducks Groups Species North America 231

10,000 Birds

JULY 16, 2013

The early threats of guano harvesting and egg collecting have been replaced by the more ominous threats of oil pollution and overfishing of their favorite food source – pilchards. Sharks, Cape Fur Seals and even Killer Whales will prey on them in the ocean.

Penguins 213

Penguins South Africa Africa Sharks 213