10,000 Birds

JUNE 14, 2017

Some are just birds I happen to favor, some are judged on how hard they were to obtain, and others are based on the quality/content of the image. I happen to think the Crested Cara cara is one of the most beautiful birds in the falcon family. They stay here in Mexico despite the heat, and raise their families.

Seattle 111

Seattle Mexico 2017 Falcons 111

10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2018

Moth plates from Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Northeastern North America (left plate) and Southeastern North America (two right plates). Organization and Content. The guides are organized taxonomically and laid out in the traditional Peterson manner—illustrations on the right, text of the left. Moths are more than bird food.

North America 100

North America America Oklahoma Missouri 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 15, 2014

Way back in January, my wife and I welcomed our second child into our family. The Drinking Bird may have seen a drop-off in content starting right about then. Savvy readers of 10,000 Birds and mostly defunct (but not yet dead!) everything else, per usual).

Birds 229

Birds Family Rights 229

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2021

A small range map is placed in the upper right/left hand corner showing summer, winter, resident, migration, and rare locations. Using the icons to locate specific bird families takes a little getting used to, but if you do it often it works well as a finding tool. Who is responsible for the intellectual content of the Audubon guide?

North America 279

North America America Birds California Condor 279

10,000 Birds

MAY 12, 2014

It devotes two pages to each bird, a full-page drawing of the bird on the left, a description of the bird, including singing and nesting behavior, on the right. Scientific names don’t reflect the massive changes to species in the warbler family. North American Songbirds is clearly oriented towards beginning or backyard birders.

2006 206

2006 2014 Connecticut North America 206

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 2, 2014

Not a great place for a family vacation, though I think Duncan will disagree. There are two-page spreads with a list of birding sites, map coordinates, and bird descriptions on the left and full-page maps on the right, showing roads and routes linking the sites. Bird images are numbered to correspond with the text.

Brunei 179

Brunei Birds Asia China 179

10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2015

The Karlson-Rosselet BBI approach is theoretically based on hemispheric brain differences, the idea that the left side of our brain processes stimuli analytically in a linear manner and the right side of our brain processes what we see and hear creatively and holistically. There Is No Left Brain/Right Brain Divide by Stephen M.

Birds 172

Birds New Jersey Science Groups 172

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. While all this was going on, I discovered that a couple of Gila Woodpeckers had located their nest in a cavity in the Elephant Cactus right next to the one getting all the feeding activity.

Elephants 108

Elephants Woodpeckers Squirrels Shelters 108

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Birkhead talks about John Gould in several contexts, including a portrait of him and his family and his bird skins by John Everett Millais, reproduced in the color plates section, the only mention of Elizabeth is her co-authorship with John Gould, of another color plate, ‘Comb-crested Jacana.’

Dissection 235

Dissection Birds Research Europe 235

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2016

A guide that feels so right in my hands? And, that falcons are about as far away from hawks as a bird family could get. The group pages show how much the taxonomy of certain bird families has changed over the past 13 years. The Quick Index of bird families (Albatrosses, Ani, Auklets, etc.)

North America 172

North America 2003 Birds America 172

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 21, 2013

We were pleased but not content. The Barred Owl was sitting in its usual tree right out in the open. I came home, ate some lunch with Desi and Daisy, and then we went for a family walk in the familiar confines of Forest Park. Steve’s directions turned out to be perfect and we quickly tracked down our second owl of the day.

Owls 172

Owls Skunks Hunting New York City 172

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 8, 2013

My schedule – as a young semi-professional with a family – is hardly set in stone. The usual counters on this plot of land are my friends Ali Iyoob and Matt Daw, who being college students are out being college students (by that I mean doing an NC Big Year which is what all college students do, right?

North Carolina 161

North Carolina Missouri Blackbirds Sparrows 161

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Feeding birds is generally regarded as a harmless past-time, a wholesome way for people to share nature and enjoy wildlife with the family. Should Trumpeter Swans be consuming that much corn (and will it be good for them in the long run as the protein content of corn is lowered by growers every year? The amount spent on feed?

Bald Eagle 253

Bald Eagle Birds Deer Minnesota 253

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. Browsing is facilitated by section titles at the top of each left-hand page and smaller group titles on the upper right-hand page.

Ireland 151

Ireland Birds Groups Falcons 151

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Additional helpful design features include the names of family groups against a yellow-and-white striped background on every page corner and having every bird image facing right (except for that Common Loon chick!), I’ve missed this information, especially when I travel to Los Angeles to visit my daughter and her family.

Los Angeles 211

Los Angeles Birds District of Columbia Parrots 211

10,000 Birds

JULY 14, 2011

southern Australia’s cool winter weather and wonderful birds sound mighty appealing right now and 2. I, like many of you, eagerly await the release of the AOU 52nd checklist supplement, even though these days, the contents are already pretty well known in advance. whose full make-up and internal relationships are not resolved.

Madagascar 164

Madagascar Birds Louisiana Groups 164

10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2015

Someone had told me a group of Red-cockaded Woodpeckers called this patch of forest home, and we were determined to find out if he was right. Not only did I see beautiful landscapes and great birds, but I could share the experience with my family. As we walked along the road, tall pine trees created a comfortable dappled shade.

North Carolina 177

North Carolina Alligators Wildlife Woodpeckers 177

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2015

We were able to take a thoroughly enjoyable boat ride on Lake Chamo, whose shores teem with birds, including such typical African species as African Fish Eagle, Goliath Heron the world’s largest, Yellow-billed Stork and the incomparable Hamerkop , a species in its own family.

Ethiopia 249

Ethiopia Sudan Leopards Birds 249

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

The first twenty-nine pages of the book, after the acknowledgements, table of contents, and other prefatory materials, are devoted to the Pantanal and Cerrado and the need to conserve these two endangered biomes. Each family of birds has a short introductory paragraph and most genera get a sentence or two of description.

Brazil 212

Brazil Wildlife 2011 Birds 212

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

It is organized taxonomically, with families identified by first scientific and then popular name. Each family section starts with a brief description of the birds within that family, their common physical and behavioral traits, and range of habitat. Even during the breeding season the birds appear to be quite unwary of humans.

Trinidad 205

Trinidad Birds South America Research 205

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

This is like Sibley calling his bird guide “The Sibley guide to Birds of Massachusetts and North America” The latter sounds silly, right? Now, let us move beyond the cover and forget the little fright the title gave me: the book’s content. So what is one to think of the former?

Europe 166

Europe Mammals Animal Birds 166

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

That’s right – birds eating clay. Each bird, regardless of species, seems perfectly content to wait for the other to make the first move toward the colpa. Please go to [link] Tags: macaws , parrots , peru , tambopata • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! Wicked, right?

Peru 255

Peru Parrots 2011 South America 255

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Next, band names referring to individual birds or bird families. The Bowerbirds are an American independent-folk band as well as an Australian bird family. The bird family, however, is not. I am sure you can easily imagine this as a PowerPoint slide. Best line: “I’m like a T.V. Here, the choice gets a bit broader.

South Africa 240

South Africa China Germany Birds 240

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 2, 2021

of January 2019, which resulted in 10,711 species, 40 orders, 246 families and 2,313 genera. This “ coloured checklist ”, as Norman Arlott rightfully calls it in his preface, starts with 6 pages of illustrated contents, making it easier to spot and find the desired group in a long list. Subspecies are not included.

Birds 256

Birds Botswana Africa Ecuador 256

10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2015

That’s right, the overwhelming benefits to the environment and the economy are generated by non-consumptive uses of the refuges like wildlife photography, environmental education, wildlife observation and interpretation, not hunting and fishing. 31 to provide inviolate sanctuary for migratory birds.

Fish 145

Fish Wildlife Hunting Game 145

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Still, looking at this book, 744 pages long, 10 inches high and almost 2 inches wide, and looking at my crowded bookshelves and the piles of books stacked next to them, I have to wonder: Is the content worth the space? Twelve family accounts have been added. It is 72 pages longer than the first edition. Karlson, and Brian E.

North America 178

North America America Birds Family 178

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

The Peterson Reference Guide to Seawatching offers two types of information: Species Accounts–descriptions of 112 birds within 15 families as they appear over and on the water, and Where to Watch, brief descriptions of 47 sites on the North American eastern coast and interior recommended for seawatching.

Ducks 240

Ducks Groups Species North America 240

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Within families, the species are arranged less taxonomically and more in line with “design and space considerations,” (Introduction), and on the plates themselves, species are arranged to facilitate comparison. Text is on the left, plates are on the right. The two plates above are both by Dale Dyer.

America 214

America El Salvador Costa Rica Honduras 214

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

They are one of the most famous families of birds, and for good reason. Extremely visible White-necked Jacobins and Black-throated Mangos tussle over canopy feeding rights, both species also frequent artificial feeders quite regularly during the right time of year.

Trinidad 263

Trinidad South America Venezuela 2019 263

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Working in an area for which there are few official checklists, no governing taxonomic body, and much new information on species relationships coming in, the authors were faced with a multitude of questions about family sequence, genus arrangements, English common names, and species taxonomy. Co-author Frank E. Species Accounts.

Indonesia 135

Indonesia Brunei Birds Malaysia 135

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2018

You could say that the right-brain, the part of the brain that is intuitive and creative, goes first, and the left-brain, where the logic resides, comes in second to refine and substantiate the initial impression. These elements are very important when dealing with a high-content subject like gull identification.

North America 208

North America America El Salvador Nicaragua 208

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Their taxonomic affinities have caused great confusion and debate amongst ornithologists; they were originally assigned to the thrush family, then Old World warblers before being shifted to babblers (the last mentioned a common dumping-ground for any aberrant passerines).

South Africa 234

South Africa Lesotho Africa Swaziland 234

10,000 Birds

MAY 25, 2011

That’s right, there is another Beat Writer at 10,000 Birds! Mike Freiberg grew up in Philadelphia, PA, where his family introduced him to the world of birding. Mike is currently the Birding Market Specialist for Nikon Sport Optics and provides outstanding content for the Nikon Birding Blog. in Animal Ecology.

Brazil 160

Brazil Venezuela Iowa Guatemala 160

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 7, 2018

Illustrations are old school, in a separate section, with images of the right and brief descriptions of the left–73 plates offering 1,000 images. These descriptions are quite helpful, especially if you are not familiar with the family group. Species Accounts. The Species Accounts are arranged in a rough AOS taxonomic order.

Honduras 106

Honduras Birds 2015 Family 106

10,000 Birds

MAY 2, 2016

On my recent short family vacation to Miami, I was granted a single day to get out and really bird like a madman. Why bother with birds you can’t check off your list, right? He was right! Pigeon, grackle: from a distance they can easily be confused, right? Too bad they’re not countable Carlos!

Florida 125

Florida Miami Birds Owls 125

10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2017

Species Accounts are arranged taxonomically, grouped by family. There is no table of contents to the Species Accounts, the only thing missing from this otherwise well-designed field guide, which is why taxonomic order becomes important. The symbol on the right indicates roughly how the sounds in each group appears on the spectrogram.

North America 178

North America America Birds New York 178

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 110

Australia Birds Penguins 2015 110