10,000 Birds
JUNE 1, 2021
And now we have the third iteration in Audubon’s guide book history: National Audubon Society Birds of North America. The National Audubon Society Birds of North America covers all species seen in mainland United States, Canada and Baja California. Plate 28 from Audubon Bird Guide, Eastern Land Birds, by Richard H.
10,000 Birds
JULY 22, 2014
That was a wild cat, a wild Wildcat, the cat that lives in the wild because that is where it is from and where it belongs, at the southern end of its pan-African range that extended at one time well into Europe and Asia. But they don’t live in North America. Unless we put them there. I once knew a guy who kept and raised cats.
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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 15, 2014
Typically, at least here in North America, we think of migration as a north-south affair. We are familiar with the story, birds flying north in the boreal summer, taking advantage of the warmth, long days, and abundant insect life, to raise their young. A male Northern Wheatear. Sexes are highly dimorphic.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 15, 2020
These two shorebirds are exceedingly common in western Europe. But the Kentish Plover was sheltering its young under its body, and the Little Ringed Plover was incubating an egg — right in the middle of downtown Madrid! But the Great Swallow-tailed Swift is one of the largest Swifts in North America.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 7, 2011
Common Merganser ( Mergus merganser ) photos by Larry Jordan (click to enlarge) The Common Merganser ( Mergus merganser americanus ) or Goosander ( Mergus merganser merganser ) as it’s known in Europe, is a large, cold-hardy, fish-eating duck that nests worldwide near large lakes and rivers in northern forested habitats 1.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 20, 2014
The Arctic terns are very enduring and have the longest bird migration from their way across the Atlantic Sea to western Europe and along the west coast of Africa to the Antarctic waters. When their nests are ready the birds lay two eggs, and in rare occasions only one or three. Destinations Arctic Tern Greenland North America'
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