10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 7, 2021

When you bird afar and wander wide, you carry a field guide to the birds of the region you are exploring, a pair of binoculars, likely a camera, perhaps a spotting scope and a tripod too, plus clothing, medicines, toiletries, electronics, money and documents… Did you notice the missing item? Yet, those bird guides are hefty.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 2, 2023

The chapter titled “Chasing Angels,” for example, starts with naval officer Irven Buss using his naval ship’s radar to track birds off the coast of China in 1946. His adventures were first documented (to my knowledge) for the birding public in Miyoko Chu’s in Songbird Journeys (2006).

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 8, 2019

For example, hummingbirds must find patches where there are still flowers. For example, nectarivores (hummingbirds and Bananaquits) showed a significant drop, which was not surprising given the loss of flowers to winds. For example, most nectivore numbers continued to be low. as well as below the 10-year range (47.7-68.2).

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10,000 Birds

MAY 14, 2019

For example, a developer building a subdivision will likely harm warbler habitat even though that is not the goal of the development. For example, a developer could set aside land for protection within the project (“on-site mitigation”). That is, the harm is “incidental.”

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San Antonio Endangered Species Texas Austin 124

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 19, 2023

It is an impressive bird (for a prinia – these birds are not usually very flashy) – eBird calls the species a “large, fierce-eyed prinia with a long, oft-cocked tail” There even is a separate document just on the vocalization of the Hill Prinia, if you are interested (frankly, I am not).

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 19, 2016

For example, years ago, Eiton Tchenrov postulated that the wild progenitor of the domestic dog, some subspecies or another of wolf, could benefit from overlapping its breeding territory with human hunters. It turns out that there is an example of this with wading birds in the Florida Everglades.

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Alligators Protection Leopards Birds 112

10,000 Birds

JUNE 13, 2017

The explanation begins with looking carefully at a legal document, which can be more interesting than it sounds. Note that this is a document drafted by the plaintiffs (ABC and BSBO): it is designed to state the case factually but persuasively. miles from Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge” in an “area of documented bird concentration.”

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Ohio Endangered Species 2016 Birds 104

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

For a discussion of the evolution of the finches and their bills, for example, one needs to look under “Darwin’s finches,” not “finches” (there is a ‘see’ reference from ‘finches’ to ‘Darwin’s finches’, but the extra step is annoying).

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 5, 2021

For example, while we’re used to ‘seasonality,’ observing damselflies and dragonflies in warmer months, rainfall is “the most significant variable” in the tropics (p. The Black-winged Dragonlet, one of the most abundant dragonflies in Costa Rica, is a good example. Damselflies first, then dragonflies.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 12, 2018

On March 21, 2018, FWS released a 198-page document entitled “ Midway Seabird Protection Project — Draft Environmental Assessment.” The document consists of an executive summary, nine chapters, two appendices, and many tables and figures. There is also a website with additional information.

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Mice Albatross Honolulu Endangered Species 102

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2015

To give you one example, they have been documented following anglers. Loons will swallow pebbles to store in their gizzards, but if they mistake lead sinkers for these small stones they could die from subsequent lead poisoning. Still, loons are intelligent and – so far – resilient.

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Minnesota Litter United States Legislation 166

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2014

Larks, for example. Cocker presents Eurasian Larks as a prime example of one of the recurring themes of the book, our culture’s tendency to cherish a bird in poetry and myth and to simultaneously exploit, even ravish, the actual bird. And, that just isn’t documented in scientific papers.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Kai understands that traditional bird portraits are beautiful (and offers many), but that understanding and truly appreciating birds comes from observing and documenting behavior and habitat. Birds of Nanhui Shanghai is an excellent example of how to self-publish a photography book.*

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China Birds 2018 Ducks 138

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Well, Pale Male is documented as having juvenile plumage in November of 1991. The records are amazing and they are documented. Lassie and Rin Tin Tin are probably the most famous example of such chicanery, but even Maria, the famous Giant Antpitta , is rumored to be on her third iteration. How can I say such a thing?

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New York City Rats New York 2019 230

10,000 Birds

APRIL 29, 2013

It was nice to get the opportunity to watch and photograph a bat in bright sunlight, and this particular example of Myotis lucifugus was amazingly cooperative. There is only one documented case of a human ever catching rabies from a Little Brown Bat , though it did occur just last year.*. Little Brown Bat Myotis lucifugus.

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Bats Oakland Mammals North America 154

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Getting Close,” for example, contains a lot of material on the use of bird blinds—not the large blinds sometimes (but not often enough) found in nature preserves, but blinds you buy and construct by yourself. I found that there were surprises in each chapter. Also, settings information is fully integrated into the later chapters. Conclusion.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

Holt and his staff, several of which are also ‘characters’ in the book, do hard-core field work, finding owls, owl nests, documenting them and working with concerned and unconcerned organizations to inform public policy decision-making. Humans were drawing owls 36,000 years ago, as Ackerman points out! It’s a lot of work.

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Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 199

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 22, 2016

These are not short breezy documents intended for pleasure reading. For example, a single CCP for the Willamette Valley NWR Complex covers three refuges in Oregon (Ankeny, Baskett Slough and William F. A good example is the CCP for Malheur NWR in Oregon. As a result, they are read for their information not their prose.

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Wildlife Oregon Endangered Species Portland 113

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. Apparently, he was the first documented person to reach the peak of Mount Kinabalu. Sir James McGrigor (1771-1858) Director Gen. of Army Medical Department 1815-1851.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

” These are just some examples. Examples of two types of informational aids offered in both guides: Pictorial Contents for Songbirds (Birds of Costa Rica) and Key to Species Range Maps (Birds of Belize). American Herring Gull is “Smithsonian Gull,” a separate species from its European counterpart.

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Costa Rica Belize El Salvador Birds 202

10,000 Birds

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. The Cuckoo page above, for example, includes a new illustration of Greater Roadrunner in flight.

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JULY 20, 2019

One thinks, for example, of Robert Stroud, though he had the advantage, or excuse, of being locked in a small cell for life, as the famous Birdman of Alcatraz.). 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).

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 27, 2019

A good example of a bird that came and then left unobserved was the Eurasian Hoopoe in 2014. The first record of the Eurasian Hoopoe in Australia was well documented in 2011.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

When spotting auks in flight, for example, we are advised to look at the “flight jizz,” also whether the bird is flying singly or in a flock and, if so, how the flock is formed. In some cases, he appears to exaggerate certain traits, the ‘spectacles’ of Audubon’s Shearwater, for example.

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Albatross Penguins Groups Family 278

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2020

So, Yellow Rail is included (2 dead birds and one live one are documented for the study area), but Ash-throated Flycatcher, a vagrant found in areas nearby as well as in Queens, Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Long Island, but not in the study area, is not. . The authors occasionally add mini-essays on species increases, declines, or distribution.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

A nice example of their usefulness are these contrasting illustrations of the head tongue of the Great Flamingo, which Birkhead writes about as an anatomical curiosity and a reputed culinary delicacy. The 70 black-and-white illustrations are much more helpful since you see them as you read about them. They are also included in the index.

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Dissection Birds Research Europe 208

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2023

Here is an example of one of the 36 plates, presenting Belted Kingfisher (ABA Bird of the Year!) Woodpeckers nest in cavities and their young are altricial (born in an undeveloped state), which means there is not a lot of documented information about their young and how they look at different stages.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Birds Family Collecting 245

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2020

The guide covers 1,433 species, the number of birds documented at the end of 2014, the cutoff point for the book. These are species which have been seen one or two or three times, but the rare sightings were unsupported by documentation. slightly rising-falling in pitch and pace.

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Bolivia Birds Brazil Switzerland 167

10,000 Birds

MAY 12, 2017

For example I added two new species just this morning. And I’m getting close! Species #75 for Socrates Sculpture Park is Red-winged Blackbird. Veering wildly to the other end of the expectedness spectrum, Species #76, with an asterisk, is European Goldfinch. Over time, Pearson’s prediction proved accurate.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Another example of how animals (even goldfish!) Court documents say Donald Earl Fite III wanted to reunite with the woman in July, but she wasn’t willing. Court documents said Fite told an officer, “If she can’t have me, then she can’t have the fish.” I'm posting the whole article because it's so short.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 19, 2015

For example, in Costa Rica, we have Eastern Phoebe on the list because one lone, very lost (or extremely adventurous) individual took a really big detour at Pismo Beach instead of making a short flight to wintering grounds much closer to home. Lincoln’s Sparrow for example. A rare bird is one we don’t see very often.

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Costa Rica Birds Panama Sparrows 161

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2015

The growth of community bird feeding programs in the 1920’s, for example, is shown to be rooted in post-World War I America prosperity–more spending money, more time, and (this is the part I like) the availability of cheap grain. The story of Duncraft is a good example. Scott’s was fined $12.5

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America Industry Squirrels Birds 221

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2014

The account in Christopher Lever’s Naturalized Birds of the World , for example, is full of detail,but neither of the earlier works he claims to base it on — Phillips’s Wild Birds Introduced or Transplanted of 1928 and Chapman’s 1895 Handbook — says anything about Shakespeare. But the link between those circumstances?

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2023

The elegant Chinese Egret, the elusive Reed Parrotbill, and the majestic Oriental Stork are just a few examples of the endangered birds struggling to survive in the face of relentless human progress. Local birdwatching groups play a crucial role in monitoring populations, documenting sightings, and advocating for conservation measures.

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China Endangered Species Sanctuary Protection 158

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2015

Gorgeous photographs, ranging in size from one-quarter to a full-page, illustrate additional identification features, behavior and habitat, and occasionally examples of races (subspecies). ” Acorn Woodpeckers’ drumming, for example, consists of “Slow, but accelerating rolls of 10-20 strikes.

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Woodpeckers 2002 Europe Research 233

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Where predators are rare, turning more attention to feeding might produce a Darwinian benefit, for example. The most famous example of this is probably the Galapagos Islands. In fact, let’s take a moment to look at that particular example because most people have it wrong. Invasion of the birdie snatchers.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2022

Habitat loss, as documented by hieroglyphs. Here are a few examples: The Ostrich Communal Nesting System. Anyway, this points to an interesting fact – as recently as about 4,500 years ago, it was found in the Egyptian Nile Delta. Think about it when you feel hard done by life.

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