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SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Outside the breeding season, the birds stop vocalizing and roam in pairs or small family groups in wide-ranging feeding circuits which makes them much more difficult to find. The young followed the parents around in small family groups well after they had fledged.

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Nor are there any birding authorities requiring folks to identify, count and document the nuthatches, titmice and Downy Woodpeckers that come to their backyard feeders. We get serious about quality optics and spend hours studying field guides about birds because we really really want to.

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Costa Rica Cooking Birds Chickens 195

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MAY 10, 2015

To us on the traditional side of the Atlantic, they’ll always belong to the family Iznogoudae , the birds who want to become warblers instead of the warblers. These subspecies can be divided into two major clades, the domesticus group and the indicus group, with the indicus group occupying south and parts of central Asia.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

In the mean time, a family group of Black-throated Magpie-Jays were frolicking in the breeze high over the dry valley, showing off their exorbitantly long tail streamers. It did not take long before we had a family group of Tufted Jays right by the side of the road (KM 216) and an uncommon Gray-collared Becard at the same spot.

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Mexico Costa Rica Arizona Birds 186

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DECEMBER 31, 2019

I also spent a week in northwestern Costa Rica on a family vacation, a long weekend in Barbados, a week in Georgia, and two week-plus-long trips to visit relatives in southern California. Our family trip to Barbados was mostly about the beach but it was also chock full o’birds! Number 7 – Barbados Bullfinch.

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2019 Barbados Uganda Costa Rica 137

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Not a great place for a family vacation, though I think Duncan will disagree. Phillipps’ Field Guide (I’ll be using this shortened form of the title) covers 673 avian species, including 59 endemics, and 53 species that have not been documented yet for the area but which may show up in the next few years.

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Brunei Birds Asia China 172

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AUGUST 1, 2017

Birds of Kruger National Park covers the 259 species most frequently seen in the park, about half of the total number of birds documented there. and the Introduction offers descriptions of each habitat type and the three other bird groupings. The authors also discuss the best time to visit Kruger N.P.,

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Ecuador Wildlife Reptiles Birds 164

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

For example, on finding gulls: Close study of gulls is not for everyone, and birders shouldn’t feel obligated to get deep into it if you prefer colorful, less-confusing, families of birds. But, as we say in the book review world, you can’t keep a critical mind down. And Nate knows that. Actually, I exaggerate. And, it is.).

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Birds North Carolina North America Owls 262

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DECEMBER 6, 2016

Appendices list all vagrant species; “hypothetical species”—20 species reported by reliable observers but not well documented; and “more species to watch for in NCA”—20 species that should be showing up based on historical records, birds of neighboring countries and migratory patterns.

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El Salvador America Costa Rica Honduras 229

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JULY 20, 2019

This does not include the various changes made to Latin names, taxonomic ordering, nor changes to families.: Some birders are more learners than listers, others more photographers than birders. To help clear up the confusion, this is a brief summary of recent changes to the official Costa Rica list. Spot-bellied Bobwhite bites the dust.

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Costa Rica Birds Owls South America 196

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AUGUST 4, 2015

I also enjoyed reading the company histories of familiar brands like Duncraft, Kaytee, Droll Yankee, and Wagner all of which started as family companies, some as offshoots of other businesses, some as the result of clever inventions. The story of Duncraft is a good example. Scott’s was fined $12.5

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America Industry Squirrels Birds 222

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APRIL 2, 2019

Peterson Reference Guide to Sparrows of North America covers 61 species of the New World sparrow family Passerellidae that breed in Canada, the United States, and northern Mexico. The book does not include House Sparrow, an Old World sparrow that belongs to a completely different bird family. Scope of Book. Read the Introduction!

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North America Sparrows America United States 142

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NOVEMBER 3, 2015

birders have been able to visit Cuba as part of survey groups and cultural exchanges for years, but those trips have been few in number and not always easy to find. He leads the Wildlife Art Working Group of BirdsCaribbean , and contributes his art to conservation organizations for fundraising. There is even room for notes.

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Cuba Birds United States 2000 224

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FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Dolphin and whale photographic plates offer notes on fin and blowhole size and shape, with the text giving visual clues on what surfacing whales look like (a sperm whale “looks like a giant turd”) and how various dolphin species leap and group together. Pennsylvania is one of the most heavily birded states in the U.S.,

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Pennsylvania Texas Whales Whaling 158

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JANUARY 6, 2015

Florida is by Bill Pranty, central Florida resident, author of A Birder’s Guide to Florida , now in its fifth edition, plus numerous articles documenting the distribution of birds in Florida, current chair of the ABA Checklist committee, and an active member of the Florida Ornithological Society. field guides in general.

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Colorado Florida Birds New Jersey 228

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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? Until recently, there has been a black hole in the ornithological body of knowledge about seabirds. Who is it for? The penguin fanatics.

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Albatross Penguins Research Breeding 114

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MAY 7, 2019

” The essays are arranged in thematic order grouped in six sections: “Spark Bird!” The Checklist is more than a taxonomic listing of species and chapter number and title; it also contains useful notes on each bird family. This is the essence of the book, it is, as the author says, “a storybook for bird lovers.”

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Birds North America Breeding America 114

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OCTOBER 6, 2015

Photos in the Species Accounts are documented with photographer’s name and place where the photo was taken (an important fact given some species’ nomadic or irruptive tendencies); additional credits are given in the Acknowledgments. A group of owls is traditionally called a parliament, though there is a line of thought that C.S.

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North America Owls America Dominican Republic 214

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

As mentioned in many other posts on this blog, the avifauna of Trinidad & Tobago consists of several species and family groups occurring very interestingly, in threes. All of this to say that finally I have documented all three species of nighthawk found in T&T. Well, kind of.

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Trinidad Bats Falcons Groups 130

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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

But, unlike most books focused on a bird family, this one is organized geographically. He also talks about cruise ships and group tours, making recommendations for islands that should be visited and at what times of year. A scientific analysis of the bird family was written by Lloyd S. Press, 2011).

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Penguins Georgia New Zealand Albatross 277

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JULY 21, 2022

The one bird I did not see here, however, was the Bateleur Eagle … One highlight in the area is the Saddle-billed Stork , likely to be the tallest species in the stork family. Habitat loss, as documented by hieroglyphs. Each of these ‘families’ consists of a single mating pair and 1-5 ‘helpers’ who assist in raising the young.

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Ostriches Parrots Birds Eggs 147

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JULY 6, 2021

If you had your choice of one bird family to pursue, to seek out and observe and photograph and kvell over, which one would you choose? A passion for one bird family is also very useful. It provides goals and a definite direction for your birding travels and thoughts; sometimes it even becomes the basis of a book!

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OCTOBER 1, 2013

Try Bermuda Petrel, Pterodroma cahow , one of the group of seabirds called gadfly petrels. All the while, he is observing, documenting, practically living with the cahows when they return to Bermuda. It isn’t in your book of seabirds? (It She uses both sources well.

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JUNE 2, 2020

It’s the bird family that most people don’t know is a bird family. For many years it was thought the two bird families were related taxonomically. Like Antpittas and Gnateaters by Harold F. Introduction. Images of typical display poses are included for many of the birds of paradise.

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Guinea Birds Papua New Guinea Family 260

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JULY 4, 2023

The species are taxonomically divided into two families: Tytonidae, Barn-Owls, and Strigidae, Owls, encompassed in one order, Strigiformes. When you look at Clements latest taxonomic spreadsheet, you get a sense of the depth of their relationships to each other and the world. In some ways, this is a puzzling chapter.

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Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 200

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MARCH 18, 2011

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. That’s right – birds eating clay.

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Peru Parrots 2011 Research Center 254

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DECEMBER 4, 2018

Five species are grouped in a chapter titled (4) Dark Horse Gulls (Rare or Unlikely Gulls). And, then there is a Hybrid Gulls chapter, covering five well-documented hybrids. ’ Arrows point out anatomical parts or identification features; group photos are labeled for species and age group. .’

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North America America El Salvador Nicaragua 193

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AUGUST 18, 2011

And one of the things you do is to study old documents, and you have this old book, this very very old book, that chronicles the life and times of some historic people in some historic period, but you don’t know exactly when it is from or where it was written. Imagine you study history. That’s what Archaeopteryx is.

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Mammals Europe Groups Family 240

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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). These descriptions are quite helpful, especially if you are not familiar with the family group.

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Honduras Birds 2015 Family 103

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Recent studies show that many island species went extinct before anyone managed to document their existence. According to his writings, the Cuban Macaw’s behavior was typical of the genus, living in pairs or family parties that kept in contact with loud, raucous calls. The islands of the Caribbean are no exception.

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Cuba Parrots Collecting Columbus 238

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APRIL 7, 2020

The proprietor of our ecolodge guides my small group of birders up a steep slope where we see, just at the point where a scope view deteriorates into pixels, a huge bird—a Chaco Eagle, also known as a Crowned Eagle—on a huge nest. September 2017, Cerrado, Brazil. We are cautioned to keep the location of the eagle a secret.

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Falcons United Kingdom Zimbabwe Eggs 200

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OCTOBER 3, 2017

Scientific names have been reviewed by the Working Group on Avian Nomenclature of the International Ornithologists’ Union. 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.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

Not, as Linneaus thought, an ostrich, nor even, as later scientists concluded, a distant cousin of pigeons deserving of family rank, it was an honest-to-goodness pigeon, deeply embedded within the family Columbidae. The Dodo ( Raphus cucullatus ) — that towering icon of modern anthropogenic extinctions — was a pigeon.

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Solomon Islands Guinea Mauritius Humane 272

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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. Most of the species are described in the Species Accounts, arranged taxonomically into 86 family chapters.

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North America America 2017 Birds 178

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JULY 2, 2019

I hesitated because a 496-page book about two skulky neotropical bird groups is a little intimidating. 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. Antpittas and Gnateaters by Harry F.

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Research Eggs South America Costa Rica 136

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

It covers 434 species across 9 orders and 18 families of birds. All species in every one of these groups is described even if not every single species lives on the ocean, a guideline continued from the earlier volume. SCOPE & SPECIES ORGANIZATION. There is one exception–ducks.

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Albatross Penguins Groups Family 278

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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. Interestingly, Kai notes in a private communication that he is more interested in close-up images than groups of birds, but I think he excels in both.

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