10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2020

The authors trace the creation of swamps, wetlands, and meadows by farmers, and then the destruction of wetlands by the building of golf courses, the loss of meadows by the construction of train tracks. Norse was a Wall Street broker; John Kieran was a sports reporter and radio panelist.

New York City 158

New York City New York Birds Breeding 158

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. Let’s hear it for the return of the forest!

Pennsylvania 241

Pennsylvania Breeding Birds Sparrows 241

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. I imagine that Rapai’s reportorial training dictated that he stay in the background. So if you want to see a Kirtland’s Warbler, you go to Michigan in May or June.

Michigan 241

Michigan Bahamas Endangered Species Research 241

10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2020

And then, we are immersed into the history of falconry–the beauty and wonder of these birds and the “art” of training them and hunting with them traveled from Europe to the Middle East, translating eventually into a new sport–falcon racing. These are interesting, even provocative worlds.

Falcons 226

Falcons United Kingdom Zimbabwe Eggs 226

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

Holt and his staff, several of which are also ‘characters’ in the book, do hard-core field work, finding owls, owl nests, documenting them and working with concerned and unconcerned organizations to inform public policy decision-making. I want to read about owls, not people.” ” It is all about the owls.

Owls 227

Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 227

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

With the easy-to-use platform offered by the Great Backyard Bird Count, birders of all ages and experience levels set out to find, tally, and document as many birds as possible within the boundaries of Miami-Dade. The relentless train of winter storms and heavy snow may be partially to blame.

Miami 169

Miami 2015 United States Birds 169

10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2018

I can’t end this review without talking about how impressed I am by Johnson’s research and documentation. That’s pretty much the reaction of anybody hearing this for the first time. Author Kirk Wallace Johnson does more than simply tell a quixotic heist tale, though. And, well researched.

Collecting 105

Collecting Iraq Ostriches Science 105

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. This is particularly true when it comes to sorting out subspecies.

Research 151

Research Eggs South America Costa Rica 151

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2019

While the hunting of game with trained birds of prey can be a controversial topic among birders , falconry was a valuable early source of information on birds, and its history, culture, and imagery continue to fascinate bird lovers, as we shall see.

2015 113

2015 Italy Falcons Europe 113

10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2023

Greeley has a historian’s instincts, perhaps stemming from his training as an archivist (though he ended up, he says vaguely, in business and market research). He has done an enormous amount of research, carefully documented the text, and produced a bibliography 13 pages long.

Connecticut 147

Connecticut Washington Legislation Hunting 147