10,000 Birds

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. The 224-page book is organized by habitat and behavior, not taxonomy. I have to say right off that taxonomic organization is imprinted in my brain.

Ecuador 166

Ecuador Wildlife Reptiles Birds 166

10,000 Birds

APRIL 24, 2021

There was even that outside, enticing chance of documenting something new for Costa Rica. Many thanks goes to Pirjo Laakso and Wilfredo Villalobos of Cabuya Bird Watching for organizing this special trip and to fellow birders Alex Montero, Diego Quesada, and Roger Rodriguez Bravo for sharing the experience.

Costa Rica 263

Costa Rica Dolphins Sea Turtles Turtles 263

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Coverage & Organization Birds of Belize covers 540 or so species (I counted, the press release says “over 500”) regularly found in Belize, including the islands of the barrier reef and marine waters about 30 miles out, the range of a day trip. Birds of Costa © 2023 by Steve N. Howell and Dale Dyer.

Costa Rica 206

Costa Rica Belize El Salvador Birds 206

10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2023

Supporting local conservation organizations and participating in citizen science initiatives allows us to contribute to the protection of Shanghai’s bird species and their habitats. Local birdwatching groups play a crucial role in monitoring populations, documenting sightings, and advocating for conservation measures.

China 160

China Endangered Species Sanctuary Protection 160

Critter News

JUNE 4, 2009

researchers for allegedly filing fraudulent documents and performing nearly identical experimentation in violation of federal regulations, the organization said in a news release. Stop Animal Exploitation Now filed the complaint with U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, urging a probe of 50 U.S.

Investigation 100

Investigation Medical Research Groups Animal Cruelty 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2011

Lead to Calls for a Lights Out Program By Corey • March 16, 2011 • No comments yet Tweet Share City Wildife , an organization in Washington D.C. that is dedicated to conserving wildlife in the U.S. capital, has released a report on the deadliest buildings in Washington D.C. for migratory birds.

DC 145

DC Washington Deer 2011 145

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

One of the many organizations covered by the NAWMP is the Central Valley Joint Venture (CVJV). The CVJV is now one of 18 national Joint Ventures bringing together conservation organizations, public entities, private landowners and other partners interested in the conservation of bird habitat in California’s Central Valley.

Sacramento 166

Sacramento Wildlife United States North America 166

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2014

It’s very hard to organize the many ways in which human beings relate to avian beings into comprehensible text. Reference books are supposed to be full of documentable facts, not stories from people without a PhD next to their name. And, that just isn’t documented in scientific papers.

Birds 207

Birds Egypt Family Eagles 207

10,000 Birds

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. It really is an achievement.

El Salvador 230

El Salvador America Costa Rica Honduras 230

10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2018

Organization and Content. The guides are organized taxonomically and laid out in the traditional Peterson manner—illustrations on the right, text of the left. And, the North American Environmental Atlas project documents the locations of these ecoregions. So, range maps were constructed based on ecoregions.

North America 100

North America America Oklahoma Missouri 100

Critter News

DECEMBER 15, 2009

“To continue their support for this institution, our community needs answers — no more accusations, no more allegations, no more irresponsible criticisms, but documented facts that will give them good reason to maintain their confidence in us,” Lanthier said.I They’re basically a bunch of ambulance chasers.”

Zoos 100

Zoos Extremist Investigation Canada 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2020

So, Yellow Rail is included (2 dead birds and one live one are documented for the study area), but Ash-throated Flycatcher, a vagrant found in areas nearby as well as in Queens, Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Long Island, but not in the study area, is not. .

New York City 147

New York City New York Birds Breeding 147

Critter News

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

Fresh-egg farmers acted together through a series of export shipments, organized by United Egg Producers, an industry cartel whose 250-plus members include virtually all of the nation's big egg producers. The Justice Department has opened investigations. It's in the Wall Street Journal.

Eggs 100

Eggs Factory Farm Factory Farming Animal Welfare 100

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. The American Birding Association (ABA) is a non-profit organization based in the United States that focuses on promoting birding and bird conservation.

United States 147

United States North America Birds America 147

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 2, 2014

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. Borneo, the authors say, is under-birded. I think we need to do something about that.

Brunei 173

Brunei Birds Asia China 173

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 19, 2015

Akin to sewage farms, garbage dumps, and other weird places where we go birding, the places where banana farms dump rotting fruit and other organic waste can attract vagrant wood-warblers and other small insectivores. The best way to find them is by birding the Caribbean coast during migration and checking banana dumps.

Costa Rica 161

Costa Rica Birds Panama Sparrows 161

Animal Person

MAY 10, 2009

However, both his perceptions and misconceptions are based on: 1) observing the work of PeTA and HSUS; and 2) the assumption that those two organizations are in the same category--"animal rights." If you can get through the article's pernicious nonsense, there are some salient points, albeit the result of confusion on the part of the author.

Animal Rights 100

Animal Rights Rights Broiler Chicken Animal 100

4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 17, 2010

The organization, Tiertafel , (animal table), Berlin’s first soup kitchen for dogs, relies on donations and volunteers. Claudia says, “People have to show us official documents to show they are on welfare or have very low wages before we help them. Not everyone is eligible for help.

Pets 100

Pets Shelters Rabbits Germany 100

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. The focus is on learning by doing, with 12 Activity sections integrated within the eleven (ten plus a “bonus”) chapters.

Birds 263

Birds North Carolina North America Science 263

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2015

The book is organized historically, starting with Thoreau, who used corn to attract jays and chickadees to his doorstep, then jumping slightly ahead to the end of the 19th century and the bird protectionist movement, which advocated bird feeding both for study and for birds’ survival. Scott’s was fined $12.5

America 224

America Industry Squirrels Birds 224

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

The main question when considering whether or not to purchase Endemic Birds of Cuba is this: Considering that the book covers only 48 of the 371 species documented in Cuba, is it a necessary purchase? The modern, pragmatic organization of the species accounts and the sections on habitat and conservation add to the guide’s usefulness.

Cuba 226

Cuba Birds United States 2000 226

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2015

And, likely, this sort of thing is most likely found, and most likely complex and important, in organisms that have that very costly but important physical adaptation known as brains. Part of that research was to document human avoidance by ground mammals, and that was stark and apparent. Invasion of the birdie snatchers.

Birds 117

Birds Research Humane Pets 117

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

There is a major difference: the Raptors guides are photographic and the Birds of Prey guides are illustrated with Wheeler’s paintings, over 1,000 images in each guide, organized with logical precision for reference, research, and comparison, with a self-evident side benefit–the portrayal of the beauty of raptors.

North America 186

North America Birds Mississippi Bald Eagle 186

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 19, 2022

As to the purposes of the proposals, she wrote: “The changes instill means for the ABA to operate with layers of oversight and guidance, as well as enable the organization to utilize electronic means to conduct official business.”. Although it looks messy, a redline is a good way to track changes to a document. The 2020 Report is here.

2020 147

2020 Portland Raised Birds 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? Until recently, there has been a black hole in the ornithological body of knowledge about seabirds. Speaking of back-of-the-book materials, there is no bibliography.

Albatross 114

Albatross Penguins Research Breeding 114

4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 1, 2009

Tails Of Aloha is an all volunteer Animal Assisted Therapy Organization, located on Oahu in the state of Hawaii, with animals on all of the major Hawaiian Islands. What is the mission of your organization? How is your organization run? What is the one thing that people could do to help your organization the most?

Hawaii 100

Hawaii Pets Horses Groups 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2019

Wright also uses the article as the basis for the organization of his species accounts. ’ These are equally detailed and documented and the amount of information in each section of each species account is well balanced (the few exceptions being sparrows about which little is known).

North America 143

North America Sparrows America United States 143

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. The resulting book, 616 pages in length, 6.4 Let’s hear it for the return of the forest!

Pennsylvania 222

Pennsylvania Breeding Birds Sparrows 222

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

Ackerman’s new book is about owls and owl research–the knowledge recently and currently being discovered through DNA analysis, new-tech tracking and monitoring, and old-fashioned fieldwork under the auspices of organizations like the Global Owl Project and the Owl Research Institute. They are also hunted.

Owls 203

Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 203

10,000 Birds

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.

Colorado 230

Colorado Florida Birds New Jersey 230

10,000 Birds

APRIL 3, 2018

This relates to taxonomy because taxonomy is basically, as Howell and Sullivan state, “a fancy word for the organization and naming of things–in this case birds” (p. .” As I said above, the main purpose of this step is to ascertain that you are indeed looking at a bird.

Birds 137

Birds North America 2012 America 137

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2016

The 24 groups of birds are organized into nine broad categories—Waterbirds, Coastal Birds, Seabirds, Large Shorebirds, Skulkers, Birds of Forest and Edge, Aerial Insectivores, Night Birds, Open-Country Birds. The process is called “Wide-angle birding: Be the bird, see the bird.”. The two books together make a great combination.

Birds 189

Birds Groups 2015 North America 189

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 13, 2012

The New Jersey Bird Records Committee (NJBRC) documents 465 species of natural origin. As I was writing this review, I received an e-mail from Scott Barnes, New Jersey Audubon senior naturalist, announcing the organization’s new NJ eBird Portal.

New Jersey 188

New Jersey Birds 2009 Bald Eagle 188

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2013

All the while, he is observing, documenting, practically living with the cahows when they return to Bermuda. She has also done an incredible job organizing what must have been an explosion of highly detailed information about Wingate’s projects into a well-structured book.

Birds 165

Birds Rats Breeding 2012 165

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2020

The introductory material is organized and written clearly, giving both background on the bird families and an explanation of how species-level is organized in the next two sections. Species Accounts are organized by family and genus. Introduction. From species account for Magnificent Bird of Paradise, Cicinnurus magnificus (pp.

Guinea 261

Guinea Birds Papua New Guinea Family 261

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

But, unlike most books focused on a bird family, this one is organized geographically. The outline headings help a lot (I’m a big fan of any form of overt organization). The organization works out quite logically if you are planning a trip to, let’s say, New Zealand.

Penguins 277

Penguins Georgia New Zealand Albatross 277

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 7, 2021

When you bird afar and wander wide, you carry a field guide to the birds of the region you are exploring, a pair of binoculars, likely a camera, perhaps a spotting scope and a tripod too, plus clothing, medicines, toiletries, electronics, money and documents… Did you notice the missing item?

Madagascar 235

Madagascar Mammals Lemurs Seychelles 235