10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 2, 2014

Not a great place for a family vacation, though I think Duncan will disagree. Phillipps’ Field Guide (I’ll be using this shortened form of the title) covers 673 avian species, including 59 endemics, and 53 species that have not been documented yet for the area but which may show up in the next few years.

Brunei 205

Brunei Birds Asia China 205

10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2022

I saw two Pitta species at Hongbenghe, both among the slightly less glamourous among the pitta family: The Blue-naped Pitta … … and the closely related Rusty-naped Pitta. At first glance, the difference between the Black-hooded Oriole … … and the Black-naped Oriole is just that they use different makeup artists.

Birds 147

Birds Myanmar China Chicago 147

10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2018

Think about it–how do you document the behavior of birds that spend years flying (or swimming) and feeding and, apparently, sleeping above or within the deep sea? Where does the female Emperor Penguin go after she has produced that one egg and handed it over to the male for incubation? Technology to the rescue! Who is it for?

Albatross 116

Albatross Penguins Research Breeding 116

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2022

The one bird I did not see here, however, was the Bateleur Eagle … One highlight in the area is the Saddle-billed Stork , likely to be the tallest species in the stork family. Habitat loss, as documented by hieroglyphs. Studies on improving ostrich egg hatchability. And sadly, it is listed as Endangered.

Ostriches 147

Ostriches Parrots Birds Eggs 147

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 193

North America Sparrows America United States 193

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 246

Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 246

10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2020

It didn’t occur to me till I started reading The Falcon Thief: A True Tale of Adventure, Treachery, and the Hunt for the Perfect Bird that there was also a possible threat to the eagle herself: poachers, who steal raptor eggs and chicks. McWilliam realizes he’s dealing someone special, a career falcon egg-thief.

Falcons 261

Falcons United Kingdom Zimbabwe Eggs 261

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Wingate cannot battle DDT when it starts affecting the cahow eggs, but he can provide scientific evidence that is included in the landmark suit that results in its banning. All the while, he is observing, documenting, practically living with the cahows when they return to Bermuda. She uses both sources well.

Birds 199

Birds Rats Breeding 2012 199

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Another member of the magpie family, the White-winged Magpie , makes do with far fewer colors. Apparently, he was the first documented person to reach the peak of Mount Kinabalu. In providing this information, they quote extensively from an ornithology book that was published 3 years before I was born (and I am not a young man).

China 264

China Birds Pythons Eagles 264

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

But, unlike most books focused on a bird family, this one is organized geographically. Penguins are shown individually in groups, in dense colonies, within habitat (ice, rainforest, beach), swimming in the ocean, and doing things–nose to nose with an albatross, feeding a child, placing an egg on its foot, sliding down ice.

Penguins 279

Penguins Georgia New Zealand Albatross 279

10,000 Birds

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.

Woodpeckers 264

Woodpeckers Hungary Thailand 2014 264

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Considering this adherence to scientific accuracy, it is intriguing that the authors have put aside a taxonomic form of organization and have instead opted for “a pragmatic field guide sequence… that groups bird families according to the broad biomes in which they are most likely to be encountered—marine, freshwater and terrestrial…” (p.2).

Australia 128

Australia Birds Penguins 2015 128

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. There are photos of parent birds on the nest, baby birds in the nest, and the nest without parent, holding a clutch of blue eggs. Organization.

Research 185

Research Eggs South America Costa Rica 185

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2013

The where and how of egg laying and larva emergence is briefly treated, with page references to larval drawings at the back of the book. Life cycles of odonata are described with a minimum of scientific language, accompanied by photographs illustrating stages–egg laying, larva, emergence, aging, mating, dispersal.

Ireland 215

Ireland France Breeding Eggs 215

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2012

This bird represented only the second documented record of this species in Florida. Red Junglefowl by Mike Bergin Clare Kines chose an egg as his Best Bird of the Year. There are three principle reasons for my choice: First of all, it’s a cuckoo, one of the great families that rival owls and rails in my affection.

2012 191

2012 Birds Guatemala Florida 191

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2015

Picidae, Woodpecker, is one of those charismatic bird families that everybody gets excited about. Woodpeckers of the World: A Photographic Guide is the first major guide to family Picidae in 20 years. Unless the woodpecker is drumming a hole into your garage, and then, well, it’s a different kind of excitement.)

Woodpeckers 264

Woodpeckers 2002 Europe Research 264