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10,000 Birds
JANUARY 3, 2023
Baby birds are cuteness personified, possibly even more so than other baby animals, including human babies, and pose interesting questions of survival and development. Baby birds may be separated from the nest and their parents because of natural occurrences (violent weather, floods) or unknowing human interference or predators.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 5, 2022
It also summarizes the vagrancy status of every bird family in the whole wide world, which makes it fun to read as well as superbly educational. The book is richly illustrated with contributions from a group of birders/photographers who were fortunate to see and document many of the vagrants covered. Next time, I’ll know why.
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
They may be about bird eggs ( The Most Perfect Thing: The Inside (and Outside) of a Bird’s Egg , 2016), or a 17th-century ornithologist ( Virtuoso by Nature: The Scientific Worlds of Francis Willughby, 2016), or How Bullfinches learn songs from humans ( The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 8, 2023
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). Checklist for Belize lists 622 species in 76 families, of which 104 are rare or accidental and four introduced. Fantasy is the key word here.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 8, 2022
Identifying White-eyes in Australia is easier than here in China, as the Silvereye is the only family member present in most parts of the country. ” If you want to hear about the equivalent among humans as phrased in a country song, please look up the lyrics to “A boy named Sue” Or watch/listen to Johnny Cash sing it here.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 7, 2014
It’s relatively easy to classify birds into family groups based on physical characteristics. It’s very hard to organize the many ways in which human beings relate to avian beings into comprehensible text. We view them as our enemies when they eat our crops and as an extension of our family when we see them at our feeders.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 23, 2022
I saw two Pitta species at Hongbenghe, both among the slightly less glamourous among the pitta family: The Blue-naped Pitta … … and the closely related Rusty-naped Pitta. The Blue Whistling Thrush is presumably named for its loud human-like whistling, and possibly for being blue.
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