10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Dolphin and whale photographic plates offer notes on fin and blowhole size and shape, with the text giving visual clues on what surfacing whales look like (a sperm whale “looks like a giant turd”) and how various dolphin species leap and group together. Howell; I can’t find them anywhere else on the Internet.

Pennsylvania 185

Pennsylvania Texas Whales Whaling 185

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 13, 2012

and bad ways (overharvesting of horseshoe crabs resulting in the drastic decline of Red Knots in Delaware Bay). Leafing through The Birds of New Jersey: Status and Distribution is like hanging out with a group of long-time Jersey birders and listening to stories of past rarities, notable birding irruptions, changes, trends.

New Jersey 211

New Jersey Birds 2009 Bald Eagle 211

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 28, 2015

At least in the northeastern United States, their rate of so doing is high, according to research I summarized here. Then I spotted an easy and obvious one, the Black-eared Wheatear , while the group climbing the steep hillside found the Rock Nuthatch , as well as the Rock Sparrow , striped, pale and indescribable.

2015 189

2015 Costa Rica Birds Sparrows 189