10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

My extensive birding experience allows me to be very confident that the bird below is a Rosefinch. For some reason, Wikipedia has lots of semi-relevant information on the Red-billed Chough. It might be about time for HBW to document this split as well … not sure why they do not update this. It is indeed rufous-ish.

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Birds Germany India 2018 202

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Also, settings information is fully integrated into the later chapters. There is a lot of information in Mastering Bird Photography , and a lot of different types of information. This doesn’t mean that Read doesn’t talk about camera settings and exposure and metering and f-stops and lighting equipment.

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Birds Ethics 2019 Experience 186

10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2020

I savor the timeless experience of scanning these tropical waves for storm-petrels and lost jaegers. Thanks to that bird’s choice of hunting grounds and David having plenty of time to watch it, he has documented the bird chasing everything from motmots to large woodpeckers as well as occasional visits from the parents.

Costa Rica 203

Costa Rica Birds Thailand Family 203

10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2019

’ Ted Floyd is probably best known as the editor of Birding magazine, the informative, handsome periodical of the American Birding Association, and as the author of many ABA Blog posts. (In 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 114

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 205

Critter News

MARCH 19, 2010

I don't care if they're supposedly working for altruistic purposes (they're not, but that's another story), they are allowing animals to suffer through negligent care separate from the excruciating experiments they must still undergo. The improperly euthanized animals remained alive but were discarded as if they were dead.

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Minnesota Humane Society Of The United States Humane HSUS 100

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. There is a lot of information out there about feeding birds—web pages, pamphlets from bird feed retail stores and Audubon centers.

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Birds New York City Squirrels New York 166

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2016

Additional information is presented in boxes and with photographs. 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. Green boxes offer Natural History and Taxonomic Notes.

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Birds Groups 2015 North America 189

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 21, 2014

In my vast experience in the terrifying outland that is the world of the non-birder, the biggest question I get concerns the inherent trustworthiness of the avocation. A couple locally uncommon and well-documented species are all it takes to put yourself on the path to trustworthiness. What happens if you get caught.

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Raleigh 2008 Rights Raised 201

10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2023

Many birders keep personal birding lists or life lists, documenting the species they have seen throughout their birding experiences. They may go on birding trips, join birding events, participate in birding competitions, and collaborate with other birders to gather information about rare or elusive species.

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United States North America Birds America 147

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2019

I think that’s great; even if these birds remain officially at the subspecies level in the future, it is tremendously helpful to have more information about them. There are no distribution maps, which makes me wonder how much information we miss when we rely only on maps. What is in the Species Accounts? Photographs.

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North America Sparrows America United States 142

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2013

Click here for more information on his photography. You can click here for more information about Year of the Eagle. While these adults were not banded, it is well documented that Bald Eagles are monogamous and return to the same nest each year. Year of the Eagle is his third book. They would feed a bite to one.

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Eagles Bald Eagle Seattle Game 181

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2015

But, not a lot of information about how this national passion (52.8 I was surprised, however, that there is no mention of one of the dark spots in bird feeding history, the highly publicized application of toxic insecticides to Scott’s Miracle-Gro bird seed from 2005 to 2008 and the accompanying falsification of documents to hide it.

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America Industry Squirrels Birds 222

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 18, 2012

From the information that I could gather, Etty Bay seemed to offer my best hope, and I scheduled it as a site to visit on my second day in the wet tropics of Queensland along with Tyto Wetlands and Birthday Creek Falls near Paluma. The entire experience lasted maybe less than five minutes before the bird disappeared.

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Guinea Meat Australia Pets 137

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.

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Pennsylvania Breeding Birds Sparrows 220

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

It is a lovely, well-packaged, informative guide, created with thought and creativity. The information here is more extensive than what is offered in Field Guide to the Birds of Cuba by Orlando H. Navarro employs a visual system for quickly delivering information on each species, similar to the icon system used in The Warbler Guide.

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Cuba Birds United States 2000 224

10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2022

After writing this last sentence, I looked up the species in the HBW and found the sentence “Song poorly documented” in the appropriate section, while with regard to calls, the description is that “call is a two-note raspy nasal ‘ryeeh-reh’”. They patiently sat for my photos in order to achieve this.

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Singapore Mountain Goats Birds Giraffes 147

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?

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Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 200

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. These are magical experiences.

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Birds Rats Breeding 2012 164

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.

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Albatross Penguins Research Breeding 114

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Crawford, in “Introduction to Europe and Diffusion of Domesticated Turkeys from the America (sic)”: A document dated 24 October 1511 was an order from the Bishop of Valencia for each ship from the Islands and Tierra Firme to bring to Seville ten turkeys, half males and half females, for breeding. According to R.D. Kiva 78(1):37–60.

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Turkey Columbus Spain Fowl 198

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Plantema gives highly detailed information about the weather, terrain, ownership of and access to the islands and coasts where penguins breed. He draws on his personal experiences to inform the history, geography, and especially the travel option sections. © Otto Plantema, used with permission. His images show why.

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Penguins Georgia New Zealand Albatross 277

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2020

Greeney, also part of the Helm Identification series, it focuses on two avian families, combining the information necessary for identification with the latest research on taxonomy and behavior, particularly breeding behavior, and the latest conservation news and status. Like Antpittas and Gnateaters by Harold F. and Sicklebill Safaris.

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Guinea Birds Papua New Guinea Family 260

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 254

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. A 10-page Index is very helpful in locating topics, including country information.

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Woodpeckers Hungary Thailand 2014 224

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2021

Like all talented travel writers, Dunn is adept at drawing us into his experiences. I would also love to have more documentation of the many books, articles, research points, and stories that Dunn relates, at the very least a list of sources. Still, I would really love to see this in some form.

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Costa Rica Brazil Ecuador Bolivia 264

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. My original blogroll included people/organizations that informed my journey and it brought me much criticism and labeled me a "new welfarist" and brought me all kinds of grief.

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Vegan Suffering Free Range Animal 100

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. And “Notes” contains information on distribution, habitat, migration patterns, noteworthy sightings for vagrants, as well as bits on behavior and nests. The maps, however are small.

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Australia Birds Penguins 2015 105

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). habitat); Voice; Range of species beyond Honduras; and Where to see–places where you are most likely to see the species.

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Honduras Birds 2015 Family 103

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. How many well sites does a sapsucker maintain? How often does he do the rounds? Does he vigorously defend his food source? The sapsucker was seen first.

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San Francisco Maryland Jordan Lifestyle 177

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2012

Fortunately, Alan Tilmouth, a beat writer with pelagic experience, expressed an interest in the book as well. I found this material overwhelming, but was encouraged by Howell’s advice: don’t rush it and learn it in conjunction with field experience. If a tubenose was documented in North America, it is in this book.

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North America Albatross America Species 158

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Some of his finds are the first documented records of the bird in that area or the first decent photograph of a little-known species. At the current time, information on pricing is not available.) If it were just the birds, I’d grab my bins and be on the next plane to Asia or Africa. And, good news!

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Hunters Sri Lanka Asia Solomon Islands 187

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.

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New York City New York Birds 2011 150

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. The Identification information is sometimes very long and detailed because, in addition to the variations named above, some odonate species feature polymorphism–many forms.

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Costa Rica North America Family America 256

10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2014

New species that were documented from Fall 2011 through Summer 2012 are listed in one of the appendices. This is what we talk about when we talk about rarities, only with a lot less conjecture and a lot more informed reasoning. The mystery of their presence makes finding one, chasing one, viewing one a unique experience.

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North America America Birds United States 247

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 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.

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Ireland France Breeding Eggs 168

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2019

While the hunting of game with trained birds of prey can be a controversial topic among birders , falconry was a valuable early source of information on birds, and its history, culture, and imagery continue to fascinate bird lovers, as we shall see. Few hobbies place such value on the written knowledge contained in books as does birding.

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2015 Italy Falcons Europe 113