10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

I don’t want some researcher a hundred years from now wondering if my single-observer White-winged Dove in Queens was real so I had to add a photo. You can also choose just how much information you are willing to share. So, of course, I’ve spent a couple of hours uploading some more.

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New York Kazakhstan Trinidad Branding 162

10,000 Birds

MAY 25, 2011

That’s right, there is another Beat Writer at 10,000 Birds! One of his most memorable birding experiences was the six months spent in Northeast Brazil performing research on a new species of bird called the Araripe Manakin. Mike Freiberg is the latest addition to the amazing group that is the 10,000 Birds Beat Writers.

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Brazil Venezuela Iowa Guatemala 160

10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2014

Howell, Ian Lewington, and Will Russell, right in front of me. He has led birding tours for many years and is a research associate at Point Blue Conservation Science. I have discovered one error: the table of contents doesn’t list species accounts past “Raptors and Owls.” ” It’s odd.

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North America America Birds United States 259

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. A Speckled Mousebird ( Colius striatus ) poses in Nairobi.

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Madagascar Birds Louisiana Groups 164

Animal Person

AUGUST 16, 2011

Hal Herzog’s “ Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat ” (Harper 2011), though fascinating, is ultimately depressing for vegans and animal rights activists. Over at Animal Rights and AntiOppression , we’ve been discussing tactics and sharing our thoughts and experiences about what works and doesn’t work when it comes to advocacy.

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Vegan Morals Animal Rights Advocacy 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

All the birds face right (with some exceptions, like the elegantly posed, back-to-back adult breeding Common and Thick-billed Murres) and the flying images can always be followed in a pattern, even when they interspersed with the smaller vignettes. Add photos, bullet points, and a few diagrams and this would be a handy book in and of itself.

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Albatross Penguins Family Groups 279

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.

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North America America Oklahoma Missouri 100

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? The sidebars and large migration maps are not indexed (nor listed in the Table of Contents, which is purely by family).

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North America America Birds Family 178

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 28, 2015

Having warned to her theme she introduces her villain of the piece, the AMNH researcher Chris Filardi, who collected a kingfisher. Throughout his professional career, Chris has maintained a commitment to bridging his research interests with grassroots conservation. Stomach content analysis from collected specimens).

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Collecting Papua New Guinea Science Birds 165

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Yet they also bring up questions, which I’m going to talk about right now before diving into the specifics of the guides themselves. I think we do have the right to expect that artwork and species descriptions when repeated are current, reflect recent studies and taxonomic thought. © 2023 by Steve N. .”

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Costa Rica Belize El Salvador Birds 227

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. A little research revealed that these are old names of birds that have been split into different species. Plain Titmouse became Oak Titmouse and Juniper Titmouse in 1996.

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2006 2014 Connecticut North America 206

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2022

I’m going to go right to a discussion of the Species Accounts, because I know that’s where you all want to be, with the warblers. I do love the fact that the table of contents lists all three names (all pointing to the same species account).

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United States North America Species 2013 229

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 5, 2017

To be fair, I could and should have also grabbed The Shorebird Guide for the Greenshank and Collin’s Bird Guide, 2nd edition for both birds, but the Nat Geo was right there next to me, where your favorite field guides should be.). There are page references to and from the Species Accounts maps, which makes research transparently easy.

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North America America 2017 Birds 187

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

UNLESS that is you get yourself down to the internationally-renowned Tambopata Research Centre in southern Peru where literally hundreds of macaws (and other parrots) congregate around a 50 meter high clay bank. That’s right – birds eating clay. Chestnut-fronted Macaws Ara severa.

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Peru Parrots 2011 South America 255

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

The archipelago consists of 17,000 islands stretching out over 2500 miles along the Equator with a varied history of avian research and study, most on the under- or not-studied side. Two-columned text is on the left and illustrations and range maps on the right. So, this is no ordinary bird guide. Where is the Indonesian Archipelago?

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Indonesia Brunei Birds Malaysia 134

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

They tell us, in the absence of a table of contents for the individual accounts, when one account has ended and another started. The photo of the Tundra Swan at right is by Ken Behrens.) This is a great feature for those of us who tend to read up on a species quickly, right before a field trip. Not many people read an index.

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Ducks Groups Species North America 240

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.

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Birds New Jersey Science Groups 172

10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2018

Malling Olsen has made his own decisions, based on research (some not available when he was writing his previous book), on which gulls to treat fully, even though they are considered subspecies in current classifications (Steppe, Mongolian, Azores, Baltic, and Kamchatka Gulls). Browsing through this book is tough.

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2004 North America America Europe 161

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

A little bit of research when I got home unraveled the ways of publishers here and in Great Britain. The accounts aim for specificity and authority; dates and locations of rarity sightings are given, and research articles on nesting and behavior are cited. How could I, the librarian, end up with an outdated field guide?

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Trinidad Birds South America Research 205

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. Sections are clearly marked with bold type and the font size is just right–not too big, not too small. Who is responsible for the intellectual content of the Audubon guide?

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North America America Birds California Condor 279

10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2014

A PhD student was presenting her research into the population in Westland, the relic population of Grey Duck. Animal rights types start emerging from the woodwork and comparing conservationists to Nazis, obsessing about the purity of a species (see attempts to control Ruddy Ducks to save White-headed Ducks). The news wasn’t good.

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Species New Zealand Ducks Game 169

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Text is on the left, plates are on the right. Images of each species are grouped together, with the brightest colored bird, usually the adult male, on the far right, and duller plumages–female and immature–to the left. The images on the right, from the Peru field guide, are more intense in color.

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America El Salvador Costa Rica Honduras 214

10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2013

I’m going to go right to a discussion of the Species Accounts, because I know that’s where you all want to be, with the warblers. I do love the fact that the table of contents lists all three names (all pointing to the same species account).

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United States North America Species New York 249

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

What is amazing is that each of these three books is very different in content and tone. I also find it strange that Avery nowhere acknowledges the work being done on the Passenger Pigeon by Joel Greenberg, who must have been researching A Feathered River Across the Sky at the same time he was doing his research and journey.

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2014 Killing Michigan Kentucky 161

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. Does that sound like an accurate description of what these refuges are becoming?

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Fish Wildlife Hunting Game 145

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. Species are separated by thin but visible lines.

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Australia Birds Penguins 2015 109

10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2013

When you think about it, this is pretty remarkable; even with all the excellent bird photographers available, it must have taken hundreds of hours to locate good quality photographs in which the bird looks towards the right. King Eider to the left, Common Eider to the right. Swainson’s Thrush opposite Gray-cheeked Thrush.

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Birds North America Groups Falcons 168

Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 29, 2006

According to Dr. Spock: Most families have become more conscious about the fat content of meats, and many are choosing the lower-fat cuts. Researchers have also learned that the cancer-causing chemicals that form in beef as it cooks also tend to form in chicken. Unfortunately, switching from red meat to chicken does not help very much.

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