10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Kricher is well-known in naturalist book circles as a scientist who can write about complex scientific topics in engaging smart prose touched with just the right amount of dry wit. The 11th chapter is on research and conservation challenges.

2006 239

2006 Tortoises Sea Lions Sea Turtles 239

10,000 Birds

APRIL 20, 2016

I knew something wasn’t right, but I just couldn’t put my eye on it……WAIT, that’s it. Hours of research later, I find that the sub-species, Melanerpes formicivorus angustifrons is well documented, but in all the research and data, there is only one mention of the dark eyed Acorn Woodpecker.

Woodpeckers 100

Woodpeckers 2000 Mexico Research 100

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. In what has become the modern-day traditional method of organization, species are listed and described on the left-hand page and illustrative plates are on the right. More on Species Accounts.

Bolivia 168

Bolivia Birds Brazil Switzerland 168

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2023

An impressive combination of research and artwork, combined with a pragmatic organization aimed towards quick identification, and education, Baby Bird Identification extends the frontiers of bird identification guides and is an important contribution to wildlife rehabilitation literature. Woodpeckers are a family of focus for Tuttle-Adams.

Wildlife Rehabilitation 246

Wildlife Rehabilitation Birds Family Collecting 246

10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2017

Those who work to help repopulate and protect decimated bird colonies do it because it’s critically important, it’s right, it’s just, and at the end there is the unimaginable joy of seeing a wild bird spread its wings and disappear into the sky. People do not work with wildlife for fame and fortune. Please write: [link] .

Albatross 214

Albatross Honolulu Hawaii Killing 214

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Yet they also bring up questions, which I’m going to talk about right now before diving into the specifics of the guides themselves. I think we do have the right to expect that artwork and species descriptions when repeated are current, reflect recent studies and taxonomic thought. © 2023 by Steve N. .”

Costa Rica 203

Costa Rica Belize El Salvador Birds 203

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

I suspect that way more research and documentation is conducted on indigenous bird species. There is a well-founded preference amongst ornithologists and researchers to focus on the pressing research needs of declining native species rather than devote valuable research hours to increasing introduced species.

Miami 130

Miami Parrots Research Birds 130

10,000 Birds

MAY 10, 2015

You see, it clearly resembles a hybrid between the Spanish and the House Sparrow, and an ancient hybrid event was long suspected to be the source of its existence – with recent research indicating that apparently this isn’t the case after all.

Sparrows 209

Sparrows Italy Asia Austria 209

Critter News

JUNE 5, 2009

Thanks to Patty at Animal Rights-Do Whatever is Necessary for reposting this list of 40 ways to help lab animals. There are many excellent books on issues related to animal research. Know Your Adversary Part of being an effective activist on animal research issues is knowing the arguments in support of animal research.

Animal Research 100

Animal Research Animal Medical Research Research 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 30, 2014

Ideally a photograph is the best way to document your observation, but it is not necessary if you make clear notes on the positioning of the metal band and the flags. It is truly remarkable and it is happening right here in Broome with our migratory shorebirds and all across the world with a huge variety of species.

Belarus 162

Belarus Cameroon Taiwan China 162

10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2022

If I was an ornithologist aiming for a grant, I would now definitely highlight the need for more research on this topic. The researchers are quite aware of the differences between humans and birds and thus have completely ignored another explanation for this behavior.

Singapore 147

Singapore Birds Mountain Goats Giraffes 147

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2012

Recently it has also been documented as breeding in Wisconsin, Ontario, and the Upper Michigan Peninsula, but those birds are few and not always accessible. Previously, even researchers had problems getting access to nesting Kirtland’s Warblers. So if you want to see a Kirtland’s Warbler, you go to Michigan in May or June.

Michigan 221

Michigan Bahamas Endangered Species Research 221

10,000 Birds

JULY 17, 2012

Getting intimate with a species over the course of the breeding cycle is one of the more rewarding aspects of birding, and field research too. I present here an annotated collection of photos documenting the entry of new parrotlets into this world. Color markings on the legs and head are to identify individuals for research purposes).

Eggs 267

Eggs Venezuela Porcupines 2008 267

10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2022

Hongbenghe is a very small village in Yunnan, right next to the border with Myanmar. It seems that this is another species for which the standard phrase of scientists anywhere, “more research needed”, applies. One road simply ends here, giving the place a real end-of-the-world feeling.

Birds 147

Birds Myanmar China Chicago 147

10,000 Birds

MAY 6, 2011

You’d think, then, that applying science to philosophy by studying the evolutionary underpinnings of thought and behavior across species would be right up my alley. Right away, we have a definition problem — those who hold to any kind of mind-body dualism are unlikely to be swayed by the ideas in this book.

Morals 108

Morals Animal Humane Research 108

10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2018

Moth plates from Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Northeastern North America (left plate) and Southeastern North America (two right plates). The guides are organized taxonomically and laid out in the traditional Peterson manner—illustrations on the right, text of the left. Moths are more than bird food. Let that sink in.

North America 100

North America America Oklahoma Missouri 100

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 18, 2012

Although realizing that the probability of seeing a cassowary on my trip was quite low, I was not willing to admit defeat and still continued to do my research on where to see one (ebird was invaluable). I took a couple shots with my simple point-and-shoot camera to document the sighting and to keep as a memento of my good fortune.

Guinea 137

Guinea Meat Australia Pets 137

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. Which would be weird.

Turkey 198

Turkey Columbus Spain Fowl 198

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

UNLESS that is you get yourself down to the internationally-renowned Tambopata Research Centre in southern Peru where literally hundreds of macaws (and other parrots) congregate around a 50 meter high clay bank. That’s right – birds eating clay. Chestnut-fronted Macaws Ara severa. And that’s just in the lowlands!

Peru 254

Peru Parrots 2011 Research Center 254

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. Analysis : The first and third paragraphs seem right to me, but the second is weaker, in my view. They contribute to scientific research, conservation efforts, and the enjoyment of birding as a hobby.

United States 147

United States North America Birds America 147

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Rather than painting all bird images to face the same direction, as is customary in many field guides, the Navarro combines images of the bird looking left, right, up, even right at you, the sums of the images creating compositions of diagonal lines, circles, and mirror images. We still can’t just buy a plane ticket and go.

Cuba 224

Cuba Birds United States 2000 224

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2021

A little online research into some of these topics, however–like Elizabeth Gould, an extremely talented woman who illustrated her husband’s bird treatises and who despaired of his collecting habit–and I realize that Dunn was probably exercising a lot of restraint. Is all that material on Selkirk needed? Donsker, D.;

Costa Rica 264

Costa Rica Brazil Ecuador Bolivia 264

10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2020

Author Joshua Hammer, who previously wrote about a different type of real-life-unexpected-caper in The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu , read about Lendrum in the Times of London in 2017, realized the possibilities, did the research. And, how they betrayed that trust, stealing eggs for years and, possibly even worse, falsifying research data.

Falcons 200

Falcons United Kingdom Zimbabwe Eggs 200

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2022

’ Gorman has read and distilled probably every research study ever written about Wrynecks or related to them; my quick count of the citations in the 16-page References section came to 295. Practically every sentence is documented with these studies. I somehow knew right away that the bird I saw was a Wryneck.

Woodpeckers 224

Woodpeckers Hungary Thailand 2014 224

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

They are sized variably, often filling both pages with a series of story-telling images like the Southern Rockhoppers walking right, then left, then a single individual jumping down, or taking our breath away in a single image spread out over two pages. It is not always easy to get the right color in printed photographs. Press, 2011).

Penguins 277

Penguins Georgia New Zealand Albatross 277

10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2018

The skins were invaluable tools for ornithological, ecological, environmental research. government’s resistance to his refugee work, he finds himself drawn to a very different world, and starts researching the heist and the world of classic fly tying, first on the Internet, then in person. And, well researched.

Collecting 102

Collecting Iraq Ostriches Science 102

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Some remained stored for decades before a researcher would pick them up and inquired about these poorly documented specimens. It is correct, of course, to think of extinction this way during the Holocene Extinction, which we are living through right now. A species, wiped off the earth, never to exist again. What a horror!

Collecting 267

Collecting Peru Neglecting Hunting 267

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 19, 2012

After many hours of meticulous preparation, I was ready to import my data, a process that is poorly documented to say the least. The IOC has been on a mission to remove all grammatically incorrect hyphens from common names , but eBird required me to manually return every one to its rightful place.

Arizona 173

Arizona Belize Adoptable ALA 173

10,000 Birds

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. And this is where the latest research related to Archaeopteryx comes in.

Mammals 240

Mammals Europe Groups Family 240

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

By the time they were looked at as a primary document it seems that most who saw them did not recognize the connection to the Mysterious Starling or their value in general. Olson who in 1986 published a paper describing his experience finding, reading, and researching Bloxam’s original notes. What a horror! What a disaster!

Killing 170

Killing Rats Cooking Norway 170

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2012

It covers 70 seabird species, explaining specific identification points with over 900 photographs and highly detailed descriptive text, all backed by an expertise based on years of research in the field, examination of museum specimen, and knowledge of ornithological literature. First of all, what are tubenoses?

North America 158

North America Albatross America Species 158

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Each Species Account consists of text on the left-hand page, distribution maps on the bottom of the page, and illustrations on the right. The text account starts off with common name, scientific name and a ‘Likelihood of encounter score’–a symbol indicating abundance in the bird’s appropriate habitat.

Australia 105

Australia Birds Penguins 2015 105

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 5, 2017

(To be fair, I could and should have also grabbed The Shorebird Guide for the Greenshank and Collin’s Bird Guide, 2nd edition for both birds, but the Nat Geo was right there next to me, where your favorite field guides should be.). There are page references to and from the Species Accounts maps, which makes research transparently easy.

North America 178

North America America 2017 Birds 178

10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2019

This range of illustration continues throughout the 24 plates, reflecting, I assume, what has been documented and not documented for each species and the degree of difference between sexes and amongst subspecies. Many of these accounts include unpublished information from Greeney’s own research.

Research 136

Research Eggs South America Costa Rica 136

10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2014

Howell, Ian Lewington, and Will Russell, right in front of me. New species that were documented from Fall 2011 through Summer 2012 are listed in one of the appendices. He has led birding tours for many years and is a research associate at Point Blue Conservation Science. What does it mean in the larger sense?

North America 247

North America America Birds United States 247

10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2011

For a researcher to get from Broome to Beijing it would take over 30 hours, as you would be required to fly south first! Broome Accommodation Mar 7th, 2011 at 7:50 pm A great post, thanks Clare, always great to see some of our local critters being documented. Wicked, right? It was observed sleeping after the 6400kms trip.

2011 143

2011 Australia Deer New York 143

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2015

To research this book, he traveled extensively to see as many woodpeckers as he could; this field experience was supplemented with museum research and consultations with other experts, plus a library of print material ranging from field guides to scientific papers. This makes it very difficult to research woodpeckers by genus.

Woodpeckers 234

Woodpeckers 2002 Europe Research 234