Document Family Process Raised 
10,000 Birds
APRIL 28, 2021
A friend of mine has been begging me to come over to document a nesting pair of Plumbeous Kites in her property but life has gotten in the way thus far. Perhaps his first attempt at raising a family – I’ll be checking on him in a few days! A young male Swallow Tanager holding a bit of nesting material.
10,000 Birds
JULY 2, 2014
Sadly, the downtime means that the usual post crafting process got slightly short-circuited this week. The Oriental Pied Hornbills are pretty special, as they represent a recolonization of Singapore of this family. That, and they looked kind of like toucans, but they weren’t.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 3, 2020
The guide covers 1,433 species, the number of birds documented at the end of 2014, the cutoff point for the book. But, the numbers are quite large, and the birds organized in groupings that, for the most part, make it an easy process to figure out which Antwren (or Woodcreeper or Seedeater) is which.
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’”.
10,000 Birds
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. Humans were drawing owls 36,000 years ago, as Ackerman points out!
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 4, 2018
The basic premise is that observation of traits such as size, shape, structure, and behavior, the same traits Dunne writes about in his hawk books, could and should be used as the basic blocks of a ‘holistic’ identification process. The process doesn’t totally ignore plumage.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
It covers 434 species across 9 orders and 18 families of birds. The auk identification process is pretty straightforward. Other families are more complicated and these introductory sections are correspondingly longer and amazingly more detailed. SCOPE & SPECIES ORGANIZATION.
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