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JULY 20, 2019

Zickefoose documented the stages of the molt over its eighteen-day course, in her trademark watercolor painting (above right, starting at the bottom and going clockwise). And Jemima’s “catastrophic molt,” as Zickefoose says, sounded worse than it was.

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I’m in Orlando for what is supposed to be a family excursion, but as anyone who considers a pair of binoculars to be an every day accessory, if there are birds to be found I’m going to make an effort to see them. The birding in Florida is so easy that a kid can do it. Or so I planned to find out.

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Appendices list all vagrant species; “hypothetical species”—20 species reported by reliable observers but not well documented; and “more species to watch for in NCA”—20 species that should be showing up based on historical records, birds of neighboring countries and migratory patterns.

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JANUARY 20, 2020

The bird family that got his attention was originally the herons, egrets and other wading birds, but as time went on New World warblers, woodpeckers and ducks fueled the passion further. Welcome to the Everglades where Wood Storks , spoonbills and frigatebirds are expected, but Canada Goose and Chipping Sparrow require documentation.

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JULY 21, 2014

This research suggests that the boom isn’t due to an influx of newcomers, but rather because more local birds are flourishing and successfully rearing families. Another paper recently published in Forest Ecology and Management documented that EAB predators’ behavior matches their growing numbers.

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Woodpeckers Illinois Science Chicago 273

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JUNE 23, 2022

A Barred Cuckoo-Dove showed somewhat atypical behavior or had not read its eBird entry about it being “seldom seen out in the open … quick to flee when approached” Of course, Hongbenghe, Yunnan is quite far away from Chicago. ” The Common Green Magpie fortunately does not look common at all.

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JUNE 9, 2022

This is also why you very rarely find a photo of a giraffe on top of one of these posts – the other reason of course being that a giraffe photo would be relatively pointless in a birding blog. Of course, there is nothing I like better than ending a post with the photo of an anonymous leaf warbler.

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JULY 17, 2012

Getting intimate with a species over the course of the breeding cycle is one of the more rewarding aspects of birding, and field research too. Over the course of three months of field work I monitored dozens of parrotlet nests from start to finish, taking care to snap some pictures now and again.

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Eggs Venezuela Porcupines 2008 269

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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!

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AUGUST 1, 2017

Birds of Kruger National Park covers the 259 species most frequently seen in the park, about half of the total number of birds documented there. Of course, this is not a formal “field guide,” but it is interesting to look at this alternative form or organization. It sounds simple, but I wonder how it works in practice.

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Ecuador Wildlife Reptiles Birds 178

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JANUARY 7, 2020

The authors trace the creation of swamps, wetlands, and meadows by farmers, and then the destruction of wetlands by the building of golf courses, the loss of meadows by the construction of train tracks. An identification guide for an overlooked bird family? And for good reason. Or, at least, the life of our local park or neighborhood.

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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. The story of Duncraft is a good example. Scott’s was fined $12.5

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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.

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North America Sparrows America United States 154

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FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Small, of course, is the main photographic contributor and has also done his usual excellent job of structuring the photographs so birds on opposing pages are in parallel or oppositional poses and in the same perspective. Of course, that picture needs to be updated on a regular basis (there is no longer one record of Amazon Kingfisher!),

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Pennsylvania Texas Whales Whaling 173

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OCTOBER 4, 2011

Of course, by the time I get to them just about every other big lister in the state has seen them two or three times. That’s about all you can say when faced with pretty clear documentation of North Carolina’s first Violet-green Swallow that you’ve missed by less than 270 seconds.

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North Carolina Sparrows 2008 Hunters 154

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OCTOBER 6, 2015

Of course, most natural histories are based on research, but Weidensaul’s approach is highly specific. With so many book indexes listing species under family name, I am thankful that the decision was made NOT to list all 39 owl species under the heading “Owl.”

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North America Owls America Dominican Republic 229

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OCTOBER 1, 2013

A particularly good type of fertilizer, for example, drastically increased the population of crabs, spoiling Bermuda’s golf courses. In addition to longtails and rats, Wingate battles developers (of course), a rare Snowy Owl that kills 5% of the cahow population (Wingate shoots the owl, to the dismay of many), and the U.S.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Feel free to insert your own French joke here (though of course in the US, restaurants now serve Freedom Frogs rather than French Frogs). Of course, hearing about this immediately makes me think I have to show the photo of a Yellow-eyed Babbler below. Apparently, he was the first documented person to reach the peak of Mount Kinabalu.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

As mentioned in many other posts on this blog, the avifauna of Trinidad & Tobago consists of several species and family groups occurring very interestingly, in threes. All of this to say that finally I have documented all three species of nighthawk found in T&T. Well, kind of.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2024

” But of course, with this slight adaptation, it also works for blog posts and their writers, and allows me to plug another nice song by this underrated artist, before switching to birds. Said Blue-throated Barbet – maybe lacking an altimeter – indeed could be seen very close to its family member at Tongbiguan.

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Birds China Woodpeckers Breeding 184

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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 264

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JULY 21, 2021

Of course, I also go there several other times each year; I have, after all, seen 160 species at this endemic-rich site. And we do, in fact, have some scrawny members of the family here in Morelia, but they hardly deserve the name. Not that I measured him, of course. But I never, ever miss a February and July in Paso Ancho.

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JULY 6, 2021

If you had your choice of one bird family to pursue, to seek out and observe and photograph and kvell over, which one would you choose? A passion for one bird family is also very useful. I hope by this time you have settled on a bird family for your avian obsession. (I Still, I would really love to see this in some form.

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JUNE 27, 2022

For some reason, the largest member of the heron family is not called the Great Heron nor the Giant Heron but rather the Goliath Heron. It is also documented on video. Of course, out of spite, I am only showing you a male. Consistency is overrated. I tried the same line of argument in high school, did not help me much.

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Birds Africa Eagles Barn Owls 147

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AUGUST 4, 2020

Targeted for children 4 to 8 years old, the book offers a variety of activities aimed at encouraging children to observe, document, and learn about birds, their habitats and their behavior. There are, of course, 52 activities, each with its own chapter, organized by season of the year. © 2019 Jennifer Ward, © 2019 Alexander Vidal.

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AUGUST 1, 2019

Probably some of them did carry a scope, but the majority clearly ditched scope for a camera (and expected their guides to provide scopes, of course). Still, besides documenting rare species, forms, or odd individuals (e.g. Talking of eBird, why don’t they show users the list of the bird families they observed?

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JUNE 7, 2022

Wrynecks are fascinating because they are woodpeckers, taxonomically and evolutionarily, yet they do not share many behaviors and anatomical features of most members of the Picidae family. But they are woodpeckers: the genus Jynx of the subfamily Jynginae of the Picidae family. They are beautiful, but in a different way.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Recent studies show that many island species went extinct before anyone managed to document their existence. According to his writings, the Cuban Macaw’s behavior was typical of the genus, living in pairs or family parties that kept in contact with loud, raucous calls. The islands of the Caribbean are no exception. What a horror!

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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 105

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

Not, as Linneaus thought, an ostrich, nor even, as later scientists concluded, a distant cousin of pigeons deserving of family rank, it was an honest-to-goodness pigeon, deeply embedded within the family Columbidae. That’s a hard-fought gain, and we’ve made so many mistakes in the course of the struggle. So what now?

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Solomon Islands Guinea Mauritius Humane 278

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DECEMBER 4, 2018

And, then there is a Hybrid Gulls chapter, covering five well-documented hybrids. But, I think the birding world is big enough to accommodate more than one way to identify the members of this infamous family. A larophile is a gull enthusiast, taken from the genus name Larus and/or the family name Laridae.

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APRIL 6, 2012

For instance, despite my well-documented personal admiration for them, many people think that Black Skimmers look goofy. Of course, evolution* demands that a tool not only do its job, but do it efficiently. Ditto Roseate Spoonbills ; ditto vultures of all kinds. Bird first, metaphor second. The same is true of literary endeavors.

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But, of course, regular 10,000 Birds readers know this from beat writer, Australian birder Clare Morton , whose writings about the birds of Broome and other Australian areas have taught many of us about the joys of Australian birding. Each family group begins with a small box summarizing the characteristics of the family in Australia.

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DECEMBER 1, 2015

Into the Nest: Intimate Views of the Courting, Parenting, and Family Lives of Familiar Birds (Storey Publishing, 2015) by photographer Marie Read and writer Laura Erickson, documents the procreative and parenting lives of 49 species through beautiful images and readable, knowledgeable text. So, Happy Holidays to all!

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OCTOBER 5, 2021

There are a number of striking damselflies–the Firetails with their bright red abdomens and sometimes matching red eyes or thorax (only the males, of course); the sleek, elegant Rubyspots (nine species!); Wait–that adds up to 290 species, but the book only covers 283. the Flamboyant Flatwings (that’s the genera name!),

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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 186

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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. They are, of course, of antpittas building or incubating eggs on a nest. This is particularly true when it comes to sorting out subspecies.

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