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. There is good reason for the interviews, beyond simply amassing information, and this becomes clear in the final chapter, the Afterward, about conservation.

Owls 244

Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 244

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2013

And, in a very lovely section in the middle of the book, she describes the life cycle of the cahow, informing evocative passages about their nocturnal courtship and flight with recent research findings about how seabirds are able to function—eat, sleep, navigate home. This is a good read, informative and engaging.

Birds 188

Birds Rats Breeding 2012 188

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

As you can easily judge from the dullness of this information, it is not something I made up but rather an appalling example of nepotism in the naming of birds. 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 262

China Birds Pythons Eagles 262

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

But, unlike most books focused on a bird family, this one is organized geographically. Plantema gives highly detailed information about the weather, terrain, ownership of and access to the islands and coasts where penguins breed. The travel and species information are great, but it is the photographs that make this a special book.

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 263

Woodpeckers Hungary Thailand 2014 263

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2017

The authors emphasize in the Introduction the great degree to which the text and illustrations are based on current scientific information. Within each group, birds in the same family are grouped together and birds in the same genus “usually occur consecutively.” 210-531), indicated by brown page tabs.

Australia 120

Australia Birds Penguins 2015 120

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. Most conveniently, we are given the page number of the species account for more–much more–information. Species Accounts.

Research 174

Research Eggs South America Costa Rica 174

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2013

The books (and, I assume the series) share a web-type design construct in which information is organized visually, by blocked colored spaces, bar separators, and size and color of font. 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.

Ireland 203

Ireland France Breeding Eggs 203

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 263

Woodpeckers 2002 Europe Research 263