10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2018

Organization and Content. There is no listing of the families and subfamilies in the Table of Contents, so if you are looking for a specific group, you can browse through the family names printed in white against blue on the bottom of the text pages or consult the index. Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Southeastern North America.

North America 100

North America America Oklahoma Missouri 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 2, 2014

Phillipps’ Field Guide (I’ll be using this shortened form of the title) covers 673 avian species, including 59 endemics, and 53 species that have not been documented yet for the area but which may show up in the next few years. Borneo, the authors say, is under-birded. I think we need to do something about that.

Brunei 173

Brunei Birds Asia China 173

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2017

As you can see below, I have tried to document the action, and of course, like much of nature, the biggest eats first. While the squirrels get both food and the water content from the cactus, the Nopal is a huge mainstay in nearly every local kitchen and restaurant in this part of Mexico. Then, let the feeding frenzy begin!

Elephants 105

Elephants Woodpeckers Squirrels Shelters 105

10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2023

But anyway, my main point of contention is the style, not the facts. Local birdwatching groups play a crucial role in monitoring populations, documenting sightings, and advocating for conservation measures. So, I tried again: “This sounds a bit too positive to me.

China 160

China Endangered Species Sanctuary Protection 160

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2015

I was surprised, however, that there is no mention of one of the dark spots in bird feeding history, the highly publicized application of toxic insecticides to Scott’s Miracle-Gro bird seed from 2005 to 2008 and the accompanying falsification of documents to hide it. Scott’s was fined $12.5

America 224

America Industry Squirrels Birds 224

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2013

For ornithologists, it is the documentation of a multi-year project designed to record the distribution and abundance of birds in a specific area (in North America, usually a state or a province), utilizing a mapping method involving blocks and grids. Let’s hear it for the return of the forest!

Pennsylvania 222

Pennsylvania Breeding Birds Sparrows 222

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Examples of two types of informational aids offered in both guides: Pictorial Contents for Songbirds (Birds of Costa Rica) and Key to Species Range Maps (Birds of Belize). I’m not saying this is good or bad, I do appreciate the careful documentation of the taxonomic notes and other materials. Birds of Costa © 2023 by Steve N.

Costa Rica 206

Costa Rica Belize El Salvador Birds 206

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2016

One of the ways in which Better Birding succeeds is by never forgetting that it is teaching skills, and consistently integrating suggestions on how to learn the content better into the descriptive text. The two books together make a great combination. I myself will be starting with the chapters on Marsh Sparrows.

Birds 189

Birds Groups 2015 North America 189

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2019

This means that if you are looking for a specific species, you need to consult the Introduction, or the Table of Contents (also in taxonomic sequence but scannable since it’s all on one page), or the Index of Bird Names, where Species Account pages are set in bold print. What is in the Species Accounts?

North America 143

North America Sparrows America United States 143

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

I was happy to see that the Mississippi Kite map documents the kite’s incursion into the Northeast, including two notable nesting sites in New Jersey and New Hampshire. Unlike other hawk identification guides, including titles written and co-written by Wheeler, there is no table of contents by species, just the List of Plates. (To

North America 186

North America Birds Mississippi Bald Eagle 186

10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2019

Ted Floyd took the title How to Know the Birds from a 1949 book by Roger Tory Peterson, but the content is uniquely and wonderfully his own. ” (basic points, like bird names, plumage differences); “After the Spark” (birdsong and migration); “Now What?”

Birds 114

Birds North America Breeding America 114

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 6, 2015

Photos in the Species Accounts are documented with photographer’s name and place where the photo was taken (an important fact given some species’ nomadic or irruptive tendencies); additional credits are given in the Acknowledgments. Warning: Going to this web page can be addicting.

North America 216

North America Owls America Dominican Republic 216

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

Geophagy, the intentional consumption of soil by vertebrates, has long been documented in a number of bird and mammal species – including wide-spread use by humans – which consume soil to increase absorption of certain minerals not naturally occurring in the local diet. That’s right – birds eating clay.

Peru 254

Peru Parrots 2011 Research Center 254

10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2021

The name of my 10,000 Birds beat is ‘Birds and Stuff from Down Under’ This foolish title is certainly broad enough to include content from my near neighbours. The film exists to explain the need for such a project and documents some of the recent and current attempts of feral animal control.

New Zealand 257

New Zealand Feral Animals Feral Parrots 257

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 6, 2015

Florida is by Bill Pranty, central Florida resident, author of A Birder’s Guide to Florida , now in its fifth edition, plus numerous articles documenting the distribution of birds in Florida, current chair of the ABA Checklist committee, and an active member of the Florida Ornithological Society.

Colorado 230

Colorado Florida Birds New Jersey 230

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

Holt and his staff, several of which are also ‘characters’ in the book, do hard-core field work, finding owls, owl nests, documenting them and working with concerned and unconcerned organizations to inform public policy decision-making. Humans were drawing owls 36,000 years ago, as Ackerman points out!

Owls 203

Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 203

Animal Person

MAY 26, 2010

Also, four years ago you couldn't put a Google search button on your blog to search only the contents of your blog. Otherwise you'd create a word document on your computer and enter your posts in that instead of on a platform designed for anyone in the world who has access to the Internet to see.

Vegan 100

Vegan Suffering Free Range Animal 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 22, 2016

FWS is a federal agency, so naturally it has issued detailed regulations regarding how a CCP is developed, contents of the plan, and public notice requirements, among many other requirements. These are not short breezy documents intended for pleasure reading. As a result, they are read for their information not their prose.

Wildlife 113

Wildlife Oregon Endangered Species Portland 113

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2020

The material is meticulously documented with citations of monographs by Clifford and Dawn Frith and Bruce Beehler plus additional research papers and materials. The table of contents is organized by genus: a two-column list gives pages for Plate and Species Accounts for each genus chapter. But, there is no further breakdown by species.

Guinea 261

Guinea Birds Papua New Guinea Family 261

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2018

And, then there is a Hybrid Gulls chapter, covering five well-documented hybrids. These elements are very important when dealing with a high-content subject like gull identification. Five species are grouped in a chapter titled (4) Dark Horse Gulls (Rare or Unlikely Gulls). Deep colors are balanced by white margins.

North America 195

North America America El Salvador Nicaragua 195

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 7, 2018

It gives species accounts for 761 birds (I counted, but I could have missed a couple) out of the 763-770 species documented in the country (eBird lists 763 and Gallardo says there were 770 at the time of publication). Species Accounts. The Species Accounts are arranged in a rough AOS taxonomic order.

Honduras 103

Honduras Birds 2015 Family 103

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Its organization and content is unorthodox in several ways, which I think is exciting; new approaches to field guides give birders opportunities to rethink how we identify birds and a good excuse to buy yet another field guide.

Australia 106

Australia Birds Penguins 2015 106

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 5, 2017

The 7th edition of the National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America covers 1,023 species that reside, migrate, or have been documented as accidentals or exotics in North America. The description includes distinguishing features and documentation dates or specimen records.

North America 179

North America America 2017 Birds 179

10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2014

New species that were documented from Fall 2011 through Summer 2012 are listed in one of the appendices. I have discovered one error: the table of contents doesn’t list species accounts past “Raptors and Owls.” The need for a table of contents is minimal in an eBook, however. ” It’s odd.

North America 249

North America America Birds United States 249

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 5, 2021

This is great, I only wish there was some kind of index or table of contents to this feature. Some, though not all, genus sections end with illustrations–photos or drawings–of male appendages, an important part of odonate identification (see the Firetails page above).

Costa Rica 257

Costa Rica North America Family America 257

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 30, 2020

We are always content bird-watching around Broome anyway! This year we were fortunate to observe birds in Victoria at the start of the year before all of the lockdowns. We then returned home to Broome and waited for restrictions on local travel to lift. Later in the year we were able to travel around the north of Western Australia.

2020 224

2020 Birds Germany Costa Rica 224

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Kai understands that traditional bird portraits are beautiful (and offers many), but that understanding and truly appreciating birds comes from observing and documenting behavior and habitat. In addition to a Table of Contents, family captions in the upper left- and right-hand corners of each page aid in locating species.

China 139

China Birds 2018 Ducks 139

10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2019

This range of illustration continues throughout the 24 plates, reflecting, I assume, what has been documented and not documented for each species and the degree of difference between sexes and amongst subspecies. This is particularly true when it comes to sorting out subspecies. Organization.

Research 137

Research Eggs South America Costa Rica 137

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2013

Species Accounts for vagrant species are slightly different, with no Egg and Larva information, and a Status section replacing Population and Conservation, listing documented records of where and when the species was sighted or where it used to breed in Great Britain and Ireland.

Ireland 169

Ireland France Breeding Eggs 169

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 3, 2013

The British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) has documented 596 bird species in the wild as at 1 January 2013; 265 are listed as Accidental, 59 as Scarce Visitor, and 2 as Extinct. It also offers images of at least 21 more birds that are exotics and possible vagrants (I counted, but may have missed some).

Ireland 170

Ireland 2013 Breeders Ducks 170

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The listing of the 25 bird groups provides insights into the commonalities within each group and the physical, geographical, and breeding diversities of seabird species; it also serves as a broad table of contents to the plates and species accounts. Major species names (i.e., It’s an incredible book.

Albatross 278

Albatross Penguins Groups Family 278

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

For the smaller bird groups, like Frigatebirds, a visual table-of-contents presents a small photo of each species and page number–simple and easy to follow. Larger groups, like Storm-Petrels, are divided into smaller groups, which are described in text boxes followed by a visual table-of-contents.

Albatross 151

Albatross North America Birds Groups 151