10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2016

This is a very different book from what I expected, less of a handbook and more of a comprehensive identification text on 24 groups of birds, presented in words and photographs. Additional information is presented in boxes and with photographs. Armistead and Brian L. It is an intriguing choice of species. Authors George L.

Birds 190

Birds Groups 2015 North America 190

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2014

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. Reference books are supposed to be full of documentable facts, not stories from people without a PhD next to their name.

Birds 218

Birds Egypt Family Eagles 218

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2015

Barker, and Carroll Henderson is a well-researched, copiously illustrated, engaging study of bird feeding practices, personalities, inventions marketing, and companies that developed in the United States from the late 19th century to the present day, with a little bit of Canada, Europe, and South America thrown in. Scott’s was fined $12.5

America 234

America Industry Squirrels Birds 234

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2012

Recently it has also been documented as breeding in Wisconsin, Ontario, and the Upper Michigan Peninsula, but those birds are few and not always accessible. It’s the warbler that is often the last unchecked species on birders’ life lists and, whether you list or not, for most of us observing it is a once in a lifetime experience.

Michigan 234

Michigan Bahamas Endangered Species Research 234

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? The book becomes most engaging when Brooke tells stories based on his or his colleagues’ experience. Far From Land: The Mysterious Lives of Seabirds.

Albatross 114

Albatross Penguins Research Breeding 114

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

The guide is based on Sullivan’s composite photographic plates, which present whales, dolphins, shearwaters and petrels, alcids, jaegers, skuas, tropicbirds, gannet and boobies, flying fish, jellyfish side by side, as they are likely to be seen from a boat, though in all likelihood not in so much diversity and abundance.

Pennsylvania 171

Pennsylvania Texas Whales Whaling 171

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2018

He brings to this book an academic background in biology and horticulture and, more importantly, decades of experience developing strategies for the best backyard bird feeding practices. He clearly loves feeders and presents colorful photographs of seemingly every type sold in the U.S., But, there are things to learn here.

Birds 178

Birds New York City Squirrels New York 178

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2013

For ornithologists, it is the documentation of a multi-year project designed to record the distribution and abundance of birds in a specific area (in North America, usually a state or a province), utilizing a mapping method involving blocks and grids. Behind every distribution map, there must be a fascinating birding experience.

Pennsylvania 233

Pennsylvania Breeding Birds Sparrows 233

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

I’m sure many of you have had similar experiences. I’m wondering as I write if you are shaking your head, uneasy that all these FACTS will interfere with your love of observing owls, an experience that easily borders on the mystical for some of us. But what do we know beyond these commonly seen and heard behaviors?

Owls 217

Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 217

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2019

’ These are equally detailed and documented and the amount of information in each section of each species account is well balanced (the few exceptions being sparrows about which little is known). A fascination with history, words, names, books, and birds and people informs most everything he does.

North America 152

North America Sparrows America United States 152

10,000 Birds

MAY 13, 2020

It always presents itself in unexpected ways, seemingly to deliberately confuse and mislead. Everyone from the BBC to National Geographic has been on its shifting sands documenting these ocean giants. The presenter may ring a bell. Luck is a funny thing. Don’t believe me? See for yourself here.

Trinidad 220

Trinidad Turtles Turkey Birds 220

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2020

I didn’t know much about Birds of Paradise either before 2013, when I accompanied a non-birding friend to a presentation at a local college, not really expecting much. Also of use, as Gregory points out in the Introduction, is his experience with painting birds of iridescence, having painted a whole book on sunbirds!

Guinea 264

Guinea Birds Papua New Guinea Family 264

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2022

Practically every sentence is documented with these studies. Gorman’s personal field experience informs much of the text and his total grasp of the field means he relates one research finding to another with narrative ease. Yet, The Wryneck does not read like a literature review. This is a very easy book to read.

Woodpeckers 240

Woodpeckers Hungary Thailand 2014 240

Animal Person

MAY 26, 2010

Reading thousand-word long posts in black type on a plain white screen with nothing interesting to look at isn't exactly a satisfying sensory experience. Otherwise you'd create a word document on your computer and enter your posts in that instead of on a platform designed for anyone in the world who has access to the Internet to see.

Vegan 100

Vegan Suffering Free Range Animal 100

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Illustrations were created using diverse visual and physical source materials–skin collections from Australian museums and a database of over 300,000 photographs (plus, of course, the artists’ years of field experience). So, there are two basic sections–marine and freshwater birds (pp.

Australia 108

Australia Birds Penguins 2015 108

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2014

It prompted a lot of questions, many of which I had previously answered by simple supposition and presumption, but which now became highlighted as inadequate in the light of this experience. When the sapsucker was present, it retreated out of sight, but on one occasion, I noticed it on another sap grid higher in the tree.

San Francisco 179

San Francisco Maryland Jordan Lifestyle 179

10,000 Birds

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). The work of each artist is unique; you can tell which artist did which plate without looking at the signature.

Honduras 105

Honduras Birds 2015 Family 105

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2011

Though I have already detailed my experience that day I felt that it was worthwhile to give a fuller account of what was going on along the coast on Long Island, in New York City proper, and up the Hudson River wherever storm-tossed birds were spotted. Perhaps not by coincidence this category includes species that are challenging to identify.

New York City 152

New York City New York Birds 2011 152

10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2014

Interestingly, the authors also decided to include eleven species not yet accepted as occurring naturally by records committees, but which, they say, present interesting vagrancy questions. New species that were documented from Fall 2011 through Summer 2012 are listed in one of the appendices. We are fascinated by rare birds.

North America 256

North America America Birds United States 256

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2013

Besides the urgent need to identify my dragonflies, I was interested in hands-on experience using these field guides. The photographic page for each species presents the damselfly or dragonfly in a number of images, usually full frontal, sometimes in profile, sometimes, helpfully, in a typical perched or mating position.

Ireland 176

Ireland France Breeding Eggs 176

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Harrison writes in the introductory section “How To Use This Book”: “The basis of distinguishing confusion species is personal field experience gained over the past 60 or more years of sailing the world’s oceans during which all but one of the more than 430 species contained in this volume have been observed.”

Albatross 279

Albatross Penguins Groups Family 279

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

” And, if you don’t believe them, just take a look at some of the photographic comparisons of species they present: Or, of albatross plumages: Or, read about the taxonomic confusions and scientific lapses in research on petrels, Albatrosses, storm-petrels, and diving-petrels. Which ones? Does it follow fishing boats?

Albatross 161

Albatross North America Birds Groups 161

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2015

To research this book, he traveled extensively to see as many woodpeckers as he could; this field experience was supplemented with museum research and consultations with other experts, plus a library of print material ranging from field guides to scientific papers. The Index lists species by full popular name and scientific name.

Woodpeckers 247

Woodpeckers 2002 Europe Research 247

Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 23, 2006

To answer these questions, we need to reflect on what "necessary" means in the present context. Dr. Dean Ornish has also documented the heart-protective effects of plant-based diets, as has Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn of the Cleveland Clinic. Is it necessary for us to kill animals for food? that slow us down and make us chronically ill.”

Factory Farm 40

Factory Farm Factory Farming Morals Meat 40