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.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 4, 2016
My librarian self is partial to a more strict taxonomic organization, but with no hope that the constant shifting of families will end in the near future, this type of sequence is making more and more sense. The book’s organization reflects the authors’ goal of making this a guide accessible to birders of all levels and skill.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 7, 2020
They portray the nesting cycles of Mallard, Red-tailed Hawk, and American Robin, illustrating the various ways in which birds create families. Do they have families too and do they take care of them? Some of the chapters focus on a specific bird, most are about bird families like hawks, tanagers, wrens, etc.,
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 4, 2018
Three helpful sections precede the Introduction: Photo and silhouette comparisons of gulls that breed in North America (see illustration above), Basic Anatomical Terms illustrated with four diagrams, and a very selective Glossary. Comparisons are made with similar gulls and other birds throughout.
10,000 Birds
MAY 19, 2011
Itcher birds, migratory members of the tern family. Another question this raises has to do with migration itself. The authors examine migration related traits and address the theoretical problems of massive comparisons across large numbers of physical features and behaviors across many species. Specifically, Itcher Tern.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
It covers 434 species across 9 orders and 18 families of birds. Other families are more complicated and these introductory sections are correspondingly longer and amazingly more detailed. There is also a very nice comparison of the head and bill patterns of adult mollymawks, the medium-sized albatrosses.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 3, 2013
The Introduction says there should be another visual index of representative species from each family on the inside front cover (similar to the Eastern Birds guide), but the inside front cover of my edition is blank. The answer, based on a comparison of the accounts for Common Merganser/Goosander and Red-breasted Merganser, is yes.
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