10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

The chapter on “Capturing Bird Behavior” (my favorite) gives detailed examples of behavior cues and sound cues to look and listen for in anticipation of interesting preening, courtship, and family behavior. In this new book, she puts everything she has learned in over 30 years of wildlife photography down in writing. by Marie Read.

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Birds Ethics 2019 Experience 191

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2017

When it comes to a one stop shopping for food and shelter, no other plant is as widely used as the Cardon Cactus family. As you can see below, I have tried to document the action, and of course, like much of nature, the biggest eats first. The Aborigines Hairbrush , and the Elephant Cactus. Then, let the feeding frenzy begin!

Elephants 106

Elephants Woodpeckers Squirrels Shelters 106

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2019

Peterson Reference Guide to Sparrows of North America covers 61 species of the New World sparrow family Passerellidae that breed in Canada, the United States, and northern Mexico. The book does not include House Sparrow, an Old World sparrow that belongs to a completely different bird family. Scope of Book.

North America 147

North America Sparrows America United States 147

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2015

I also enjoyed reading the company histories of familiar brands like Duncraft, Kaytee, Droll Yankee, and Wagner all of which started as family companies, some as offshoots of other businesses, some as the result of clever inventions. I love feeding my birds, and there will be days when I’m content with that.

America 228

America Industry Squirrels Birds 228

10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2019

The Checklist is more than a taxonomic listing of species and chapter number and title; it also contains useful notes on each bird family. 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.

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Birds North America Breeding America 115

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. taken from the Macaulay Library of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

North America 221

North America Owls America Dominican Republic 221

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 235

Colorado Florida Birds New Jersey 235

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.

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Peru Parrots 2011 Research Center 255

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

The species are taxonomically divided into two families: Tytonidae, Barn-Owls, and Strigidae, Owls, encompassed in one order, Strigiformes. When you look at Clements latest taxonomic spreadsheet, you get a sense of the depth of their relationships to each other and the world. Humans were drawing owls 36,000 years ago, as Ackerman points out!

Owls 209

Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 209

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2020

It’s the bird family that most people don’t know is a bird family. For many years it was thought the two bird families were related taxonomically. Like Antpittas and Gnateaters by Harold F. Introduction. Images of typical display poses are included for many of the birds of paradise.

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Guinea Birds Papua New Guinea Family 262

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). These descriptions are quite helpful, especially if you are not familiar with the family group. Species Accounts.

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Honduras Birds 2015 Family 104

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. But, I think the birding world is big enough to accommodate more than one way to identify the members of this infamous family.

North America 199

North America America El Salvador Nicaragua 199

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. Each family group begins with a small box summarizing the characteristics of the family in Australia.

Australia 106

Australia Birds Penguins 2015 106

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Species are arranged by family and genus along taxonomic lines, but not always in accordance with the very latest molecular DNA research. This is great, I only wish there was some kind of index or table of contents to this feature. Wait–that adds up to 290 species, but the book only covers 283. First page (p. © 2021 by Dennis R.

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Costa Rica North America Family America 260

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. Most of the species are described in the Species Accounts, arranged taxonomically into 86 family chapters.

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North America America 2017 Birds 182

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 140

China Birds 2018 Ducks 140

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 30, 2020

We are always content bird-watching around Broome anyway! Luckily I wasn’t affected too severely by the current pandemic: I lost neither life nor family members to Covid, only my job which was replaced the same day I lost it. This year we were fortunate to observe birds in Victoria at the start of the year before all of the lockdowns.

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2020 Birds Germany Costa Rica 230

10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2019

Antpittas and Gnateaters covers 64 species in six genera and two families. (I Here’s Plate 3, the third plate for Conopophaga , one of the two genera of the Gnateater family. Books that focus on a bird family tend to be mostly about identification and plumage. The length and dense text of these accounts is intimidating.

Research 140

Research Eggs South America Costa Rica 140

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. Fritillaries, always a tricky id, are a good example.

Ireland 172

Ireland France Breeding Eggs 172

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. Although Harrison did all the artwork for the 1983 title, he enlisted artist Hans Larsson for terns, gulls, and skimmers–the Laridae family.

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Albatross Penguins Groups Family 279

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).

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Ireland 2013 Breeders Ducks 171

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

These are the bird families covered: Penguins, Alcids, Diving-Petrels, Petrels, Albatrosses, Storm-Petrels, Tropicbirds, Frigatebirds, Gannets and Boobies, Skuas and Jaegers, Gulls, Noddies, Terns, Phalaropes. Coverage of all families is not comprehensive.

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Albatross North America Birds Groups 155