10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The lengthy Introduction gives both a personal history and a global history of birds and art, including brief profiles of John James Audubon and the far lesser known Genevieve Estelle Jones, who conceived of a book eventually called Illustrations of the Nests and Eggs of Birds of Ohio in the late 19th century.

Birds 142

Birds Eggs Laws Woodpeckers 142

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

And one that is easy to use, because, let’s face it, you want to spend most of your time looking at wildlife, not searching for information. Tall grass, grass in burnt areas, leaves stems, small mammals, large mammals, invertebrates, birds, bird eggs, even hyena feces (that’s the Leopard Tortoise). Such a great variety of food!

Rhinos 232

Rhinos Mammals Animal White Rhinos 232

10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2018

The Zoo episode focuses on two Pink Pigeon couples: The Stud and Serendipity, a male and female that the zoo people hope will mate and produce a viable egg, and Thelma and Louise, a same-sex pair-bonded couple who the zoo people hope will incubate the egg and nurture the chick. Because, Ms. On the WCS web page, Ms.

Mauritius 101

Mauritius Stud Zoos Eggs 101

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2014

This is an excerpt from that report: “Because much native nesting habitat has been converted to agriculture and stored grains provide an essentially limitless food resource, tricolors have since the 1980s nested in large numbers in association with dairies. “We can’t afford to lose another one of these large colonies.”

Blackbirds 185

Blackbirds California 2014 2013 185

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2011

Broadly speaking there are two kinds of competition between individuals in any species: Resources (such as food or water) which may well be distributed in a territory, and mates, which usually means females. Or, a female may be defending a territory with similar concern over food or similar resources.

Research 200

Research Science Birds Deer 200

10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2012

It is illegal for any person to take, possess, transport, sell, or purchase them or their parts, such as feathers, nests, or eggs, without a permit. You can download the information on controlling Cliff Swallows in PDF format from the University of California here. Because IT IS ILLEGAL TO INTERFERE WITH NESTING BIRDS!! Authors: T.

San Diego 165

San Diego illegal California South America 165

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2019

I think that’s great; even if these birds remain officially at the subspecies level in the future, it is tremendously helpful to have more information about them. There are no distribution maps, which makes me wonder how much information we miss when we rely only on maps. What is in the Species Accounts? Photographs.

North America 141

North America Sparrows America United States 141

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2015

But, not a lot of information about how this national passion (52.8 He’s also worked with the National Wildlife Refuge System, co-led birding tours to Alaska, and co-authored A Guide to the Nests, Eggs, and Nestlings of North American Birds (1997). million people in the U.S. in 2011*) came about. Margaret A.

America 221

America Industry Squirrels Birds 221

10,000 Birds

JULY 1, 2014

Roth; the informative, graceful text is by Susan L. They cut down the trees the parrots used for nesting and brought black rats, who ate their eggs, and honeybees who swarmed into their nests, and by 1937 there were only about 2,000 Puerto Rican Parrots left. Roth and Cindy Trumbore. Other Europeans came.

Puerto Rico 226

Puerto Rico Parrots New York City 2013 226

10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2018

Where does the female Emperor Penguin go after she has produced that one egg and handed it over to the male for incubation? An array of tools ranging from geolocators to satellite trackers to depth measurers to miniature cameras have been employed by ornithologists and biologists over the past twenty years, yielding scads of information.

Albatross 114

Albatross Penguins Research Breeding 114

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2013

And, in a very lovely section in the middle of the book, she describes the life cycle of the cahow, informing evocative passages about their nocturnal courtship and flight with recent research findings about how seabirds are able to function—eat, sleep, navigate home. This is a good read, informative and engaging.

Birds 164

Birds Rats Breeding 2012 164

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Larger, denser with avian information than your typical field guide, a Crossley Guide bursts with bird images, photographic plates that verge on the surreal of birds in all plumages and poses against real-life habitats, informing, sometimes overwhelming us with visual and, if you can take your eyes off the images, textual information.

Ducks 114

Ducks North America Geese Hunters 114

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2012

There is overlap with its companion field guide, Dragonflies and Damselflies of the West (the current total number of odonate species in North America is 462), and Paulson has made an effort to limit the amount of duplication, using different photographs for overlapping species and updating species accounts with new information.

United States 224

United States Costa Rica Massachusetts North America 224

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 2, 2014

Press, 2000) and the earlier The Birds of Hong Kong and South China (co-authored with Clive Viney and Lam Chiu Ying, Hong Kong Information Office, 2005). In a perfect world, a birder would have the resources and the luggage room to buy and take both guides. Browsing this field guide is a visual pleasure.

Brunei 172

Brunei Birds Asia China 172