10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2015

How to choose bird feeders; how to make nutritious bird food; how to create a backyard environment that will attract birds; how to survey your feeder birds for citizen science projects; how to prevent squirrels from gobbling up all your black oil sunflower seed (sorry, none of that works). million people in the U.S. in 2011*) came about.

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America Industry Squirrels Birds 228

10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2019

There is also a bit of science thrown in–bird banding, remote sensing, museum collecting–not everything, but enough to give the beginner a taste of the ornithological side of the birding passion. Floyd’s writing style draws the reader in, including us in his experiences and observations, making the personal communal.

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Birds North America Breeding America 115

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2014

He describes lark mirrors and other contraptions that were used to entice the birds into traps in detail, and cites the few documented numbers of larks sold in market in the early 19 th century (826, 462 in the Paris market in 1832). And, that just isn’t documented in scientific papers. Birds and People is an exceptional book.

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Birds Egypt Family Eagles 212

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2016

To an intermediate-level birder like me, the material in Better Birding –highly focused, detailed, based on the latest research and years of field experience– is daunting, but also fascinating. Mentorship is an essential part of the birding experience, and it needs to be encouraged. Just go to the boldfaced page number.

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Birds Groups 2015 North America 190

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

The birding process is stripped to the essentials without losing the significance of important, sometimes complex ideas—migration, habitat, research, documentation, community. We need more publishers of quality birding books and more birder-writers offering fresh views, sharing their experiences, covering new, niche subjects.

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Birds North Carolina North America Owls 263

10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2023

Birding can be enjoyed at various levels of intensity, from casual birdwatching in one’s backyard to more dedicated pursuits that involve keeping birding lists, participating in birding competitions, or contributing to citizen science projects. Encountering a spark bird is a transformative experience for many birders.

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United States North America Birds America 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? The book becomes most engaging when Brooke tells stories based on his or his colleagues’ experience. Who is it for? The penguin fanatics.

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Albatross Penguins Research Breeding 114

10,000 Birds

MAY 6, 2011

You’d think, then, that applying science to philosophy by studying the evolutionary underpinnings of thought and behavior across species would be right up my alley. As someone who is skeptical of free will and the notion that the interior experience of choice implies actual choice, I largely stand aside from this part of the argument.)

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Morals Animal Humane Research 109

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

The experience is one of the ornithological highlights in the world. Geophagy, the intentional consumption of soil by vertebrates, has long been documented in a number of bird and mammal species – including wide-spread use by humans – which consume soil to increase absorption of certain minerals not naturally occurring in the local diet.

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Peru Parrots 2011 Research Center 255

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 19, 2012

At the recent Swarovski Social Media Summit in Arizona, Nate proselytized passionately for the program that both manages your sightings and contributes them to science. In fact, experience proved that the process is actually way more cumbersome and time-consuming than it should be.

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Arizona Belize Adoptable ALA 175

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 5, 2021

I know how intense some birders can be), I can tell you from experience that there are some exquisite, stunning odonates flying around there. If you haven’t been to Costa Rica, or if you’ve birded Costa Rica but somehow missed their damselflies and dragonflies (not a problem!

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Costa Rica North America Family America 260

10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2014

New species that were documented from Fall 2011 through Summer 2012 are listed in one of the appendices. He has led birding tours for many years and is a research associate at Point Blue Conservation Science. The mystery of their presence makes finding one, chasing one, viewing one a unique experience. by Steve N.

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