10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2018

I found this little grouping of Guillemots, with parents, babies and even an egg. While there were way less Puffins than any of the other species, they are still so much fun to see. Red Kites were considerted a Threatened Species starting in the early ‘80s, and a nation wide program was started to re-introduce them around the UK.

Puffins 100

Puffins Wildlife Reserve 2003 Farming 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 29, 2015

We saw a smaller member of the potoo family, Northern Potoo , Nyctibius jamaicensis , at Cuero y Salado Wildlife Refuge, boating and birding the Salado River. Our group got to see another species that is a master of camouflage on our trip for the Honduran Emerald. Later on, we saw a second one that was actually moving!

Honduras 253

Honduras Birds Costa Rica Groups 253

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 2, 2014

Did I dare dip my toe into this catalog of tantalizing species? 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. Now, I’m not so sure.

Brunei 177

Brunei Birds Asia China 177

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2012

It’s the warbler that is often the last unchecked species on birders’ life lists and, whether you list or not, for most of us observing it is a once in a lifetime experience. Fish and Wildlife Service endangered species list. The Kirtland’s Warbler is divided into three sections: The Past, The Present, The Future.

Michigan 234

Michigan Bahamas Endangered Species Research 234

10,000 Birds

APRIL 17, 2012

Most importantly, let us remember that the effects of the spill are still being felt and the BP Oil Spill timeline continues until the present and into the future. June 2, 2010 BP apparently bans workers from showing dead or dying wildlife and from talking to the press. Traces of hydrocarbon poisoning are showing up in fish species.

2010 239

2010 Louisiana 2012 2011 239

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

More precisely I wanted to learn how to draw wildlife. It depicted a Common Loon ( Gavia immer ) sitting on eggs on a seemingly crude nest. As I flipped through the pages I was once again amazed by the quality and lifelikeness of the birds presented. I guess it’s a gift you either have or you don’t. tridactylus).

Birds 222

Birds Woodpeckers Canada Collecting 222

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

” Writing about owls means writing about roughly 250 species (I counted 245 on the 2022 Clements spreadsheet, but I might have missed a few, and we all know that each classification system is different). These are behaviors that are most likely to vary across species and topics that make for compelling stories.

Owls 217

Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 217

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

For mankind to snatch away a species’ very existence is wrong on so many levels that I can’t begin to explain them. However, despite our best efforts to wipe them off the face of the earth, some of the more vulnerable species have managed to hang on. Fish and Wildlife Service. this species breeds.

Albatross 209

Albatross Endangered Species Geese Alaska 209

10,000 Birds

JULY 25, 2022

Gisela Kaplan has written a book about the species, and how they seem unperturbed by humans: “It’s one of their most successful defense strategies. When these birds breed, this can lead to highly cringeworthy announcements, for example from Adelaide Zoo : “We have egg-citing news!” This is what killed James Dean.

Birds 234

Birds Australia Ducks Mountain Goats 234

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

A hefty and lavish hardcover, it presents more than a hundred avian portraits by Matt Adrian, A.K.A. As The Mincing Mockingbird, Adrian has a distinctive, instantly recognizable idiom: birds (or occasionally eggs) portrayed singly or in small groups, often off-center and partially out of the frame, against stark monochromatic backgrounds.

Lovebirds 106

Lovebirds 2014 Eggs Wildlife 106

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 16, 2015

Bird Studies for Teens was running simultaneously, which allowed the adult group to share meals, certain boat trips, and after-dinner speaker presentations with sixteen 14- to 17-year-olds. As a wildlife rehabilitator, I am used to dealing with the (sometimes) well-meaning but uninformed public, who ask questions like “Do birds have bones?”

Puffins 259

Puffins Birds Groups West Virginia 259

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2021

This may have been partly a leftover from the Victorian fascination with egg collecting (the infamous passion known as oology), but probably more from people’s burgeoning interest in the nests and eggs found in their gardens and fields, gateway artifacts to a newer hobby called birdwatching. The Harrison guides are out of print.

Eggs 237

Eggs Birds United States Sparrows 237

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2011

I was looking out a car window the other day and noticed that of all the wildlife most of it was bird. That presumption may be wrong but I don’t think it matters for the present use of the data.) A squirrel skittered by … a squirrel is not a bird. The following histogram shows the results.

Mammals 177

Mammals Rodents Birds Reptiles 177

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 16, 2014

Another raptor present on this visit was the Australian Hobby and we observed three of them on the south side of the lake. There were three Wood Sandpipers present on this visit, due to the fact that it is summer here and they reside here during the summer months and then head north to breed in coming months. Australian Hobby.

Ducks 161

Ducks Birds Australia Pelicans 161

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2011

To describe his life as one filled with achievement is a major understatement, and what I present is a brief summary. Today the species is secure on a large number of islands and reserves. Both species had undergone massive declines since the arrival of humans and where in a perilous position in the 1970s.

Species 231

Species New Zealand Rats Endangered Species 231

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 5, 2014

Number 33, Parabolic reflector, 1888, for example, starts with the invention of the reflector by a German physicist and broadens into the early history of wildlife sound recording technology. 32, 1887) and Egg collection (no. In most cases, the object is the starting point for a broader tale. Number 57, Great Northern? Road signs!

Mauritius 172

Mauritius Collecting Egypt Cyprus 172

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The Crossley ID Guide: Waterfowl covers every residential, migrating, vagrant, exotic, and introduced swan, goose, dabbling and diving duck in North America (Canada and the United States): 62 Species Accounts on four swan species and one vagrant subspecies; 15 goose species; 46 duck species; plus accounts for hybrid geese, ducks and exotics.

Ducks 121

Ducks North America Geese Hunters 121