10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Brian Small’s excellent close-up photographs are supplemented with images by several other photographers, including Michael Danzenbaker and Garth McElroy. And there is original artwork too, by Catherine Hamilton, birder, tour leader, journaling workshop instructor, board game artist, professional bird artist, and Pasadena Audubon member.

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Los Angeles Birds District of Columbia Parrots 205

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2022

I soon found that this bird world is one with its own logic, rules, and ethics, a place with its own language and literature, its own art and history, its heroes and a few heroines. My goal was to get to know the birds and the world that surrounds them. birder, as in ‘who needs art?

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Birds Sparrows Connecticut New York 264

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The Golden-tailed Woodpecker shares something with the German flag – it is called golden-tailed even though to me the color of its tail is yellow, not golden. No doubt the woodpecker has similar considerations. Work ethics among Yellow-billed Kites seem to vary a lot between individuals.

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South Africa Africa Birds Cape Verde 193

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

My personal preference is the block prints, which perfectly capture the spirits of western woodpeckers, jays, and even a Ruby-crowned Kinglet, but there is a Canada Jay watercolor at the end that would look very nice in my living room. I also love the design of the book itself, credited to Kate Basart of Union Pageworks.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2019

Nor are there any birding authorities requiring folks to identify, count and document the nuthatches, titmice and Downy Woodpeckers that come to their backyard feeders. We get serious about quality optics and spend hours studying field guides about birds because we really really want to.

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Costa Rica Cooking Birds Chickens 215

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2015

Third, observing and photographing breeding birds and their young have become acts of ethical confusion as birders, photographers, and organizational representatives debate the impact of our human presence on the nesting process. Think of birds too much as humans and you lose the specialness that makes them birds. Yellow Warbler fledgling.

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Eggs Family 2006 New York 263

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2021

There are sections, ranging in length from a paragraph to two pages, on taxonomy, bird names, habitat, ranges, migration, courtship and breeding, flight, bird intelligence, bird communication; identification; finding birds, life lists; optics and photography; ethics; bird feeding; and conservation. These are all informative and current.

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North America America Birds California Condor 279

10,000 Birds

MAY 15, 2014

It is still early spring and the leaves are small, not fully developed, so we manage to see them too, and we did it very ethically, without provoking a response by the mobile phone. Middle Spotted Woodpecker – Photo (c) Georgos Spiridakis. Subalpine Warbler (female) – Photo (c) Georgos Spiridakis. Practicalities.

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Greece Pelicans Breeding Buffalo 163

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2016

In the early 1940s, when Jim Tanner collected the funds to buy and protect the Singer Tract, the last stronghold of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker , the representative of the Chicago Mill and Timber Company told him boldly and openly that they “are not concerned, as you are folks, with ethical considerations.” “We

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Serbia Greece Montenegro Bulgaria 202

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2011

The reasonable rates really do not adequately reflect both the level of comfort and the personalized service ethic. But this does not mean that we as birders have to sacrifice comfort for a fatter wallet! Paradise in Portugal is a perfect example of this. And this place has birds to boot! RECENT POSTS More Habitat for Snowy Plover?

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Portugal 2011 Deer Birds 176

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2016

Boxes: The boxes of identification tutorials and information nuggets have been carried over to the new volumes, many new and old topics rewritten–Identification of Gulls (East and West), Comparing Empidonax and Other Flycatchers (East), Hummingbird Displays (West), Woodpecker Drumming, are just a few of the topics.

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North America 2003 Birds America 168

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

These Blasts From The Past Queens Big Day: An Ethical Quandary and More Birds! Moorhen Mania: The splitting and renaming of the Common Moorhen 2010′s Top 10 Developments in Bird Taxonomy and Systematics What is a babbler? Feeding Frenzy at Jamaica Bay.Or RECENT POSTS More Habitat for Snowy Plover?

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