10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Also, settings information is fully integrated into the later chapters. There is a lot of information in Mastering Bird Photography , and a lot of different types of information. This doesn’t mean that Read doesn’t talk about camera settings and exposure and metering and f-stops and lighting equipment.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Text alerts, if you’re lucky enough to know about them, are great (though most don’t allow for information beyond rare bird sightings). I’ve missed this information, especially when I travel to Los Angeles to visit my daughter and her family. ” birders tell me. Well, eBird is great.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2018

He brings to this book an academic background in biology and horticulture and, more importantly, decades of experience developing strategies for the best backyard bird feeding practices. There is a lot of information out there about feeding birds—web pages, pamphlets from bird feed retail stores and Audubon centers.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2016

Additional information is presented in boxes and with photographs. There is no end-of-book list of resources, which reflects, I think, an assumption that the birder using this book is already familiar with the more general birding books and magazines. Light blue boxes give brief facts on breeding age, strategy and lifespan.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 29, 2013

Because I am relatively new to birding, this resource proved to be invaluable. Even though I picked up several books along the way, I always returned to this guide for its detailed descriptions and drawings in order to compare its information with other sources. It is truly a magical place, an experience like none other.

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Iceland Puffins Europe Birds 203

10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2011

I’ve also included a few resources for those of you that might be inclined to invest in birding resources for your kids. If you live in the States this is an informative and useful book that really takes birding to the next level for your kids. Another resource is this post on 10,000 Birds. BIRD FEEDERS.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2019

But, it’s more than that, because each essay also includes “a big idea, a method or technique or resource, about bird study in our age” (p. Floyd’s writing style draws the reader in, including us in his experiences and observations, making the personal communal. And, each essay tells a story.

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AUGUST 17, 2012

Through heart-wrenching rescues, informative awareness campaigns and much more, they are striving to make a difference in the world for those that don’t have a voice. The group offers information on everything from how to start an accredited, recognized sanctuary, to the best was to acquire necessary resources.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2020

I savor the timeless experience of scanning these tropical waves for storm-petrels and lost jaegers. With all of the birds of the world at my touch, it’s hard to stay away from this tome of digital information. Of course, unless you live on Venus, we all know that this year is far from normal and so is the birding news.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Habitat is very important to Hashimoto’s art, they are part of her observational and creative experience, and I think it’s this attention to appropriate waters, plants, climate, and time of day that make her bird portraits special. They are good basic lists, though I think selected web sites could also have been included.

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Birds Eggs Laws Woodpeckers 165

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 21, 2016

In July 2013, the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources held a meeting in Bremerhaven in Germany, to decide whether to turn the Ross Sea into a marine protected area. Additional information: The Last Ocean. Now you know. Please vote for me HERE. The first time you come down for the adventure. Anonymous).

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Russia Penguins Whales Whaling 184

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.

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North America Sparrows America United States 164

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MAY 30, 2011

What you need to know about fostering pets: Time and resources – A person or family must have the time, room and resources to dedicate to a foster pet in order for it to be a positive experience for all parties involved. Click here to find a VCA shelter partner near you.

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Adoptable Pets Shelters Medical 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2023

Many birders keep personal birding lists or life lists, documenting the species they have seen throughout their birding experiences. Birders who embark on a big year often dedicate a significant amount of time, effort, and resources to travel to different habitats, explore various locations, and encounter a wide range of bird species.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 24, 2011

NARSC is comprised of most of the national NGOs in the United States that provide emergency animal services and has agreed to collaborate and cooperate on how resources from the U.S. For more information, visit www.ifaw.org. will be channeled into Japan. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter.

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IFAW Japan International Fund For Animal Welfare Livestock 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2015

Offshore Sea Life ID Guide: West Coast is designed to be a quick, handy resource for use on whale watching and one-day pelagic trips. Composite group photographs and brief text descriptions present the core information, the species accounts. Birds of California , the new volume in the ABA series, arrived the day I returned.

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Dolphins Whales Whaling Porpoises 162

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2019

Clearly, author Phyllis Limbacher Tildes, the author of 24, soon to be 25, children’s books, is also a birder (and a little research brings up a presentation she gave at Ogeechee Audubon, Georgia with the biographical information and she and her family “love watching birds and wildlife seen near their lagoon on Skidaway Island.”

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New York City Pelicans Birds New York 165

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

It is a lovely, well-packaged, informative guide, created with thought and creativity. The information here is more extensive than what is offered in Field Guide to the Birds of Cuba by Orlando H. Navarro employs a visual system for quickly delivering information on each species, similar to the icon system used in The Warbler Guide.

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Cuba Birds United States 2000 240

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2015

But, not a lot of information about how this national passion (52.8 Bird Feeding in the Twenty-First Century: Experiences and Expectations,” the chapter in question, has other disappointing omissions. million people in the U.S. in 2011*) came about. And, few insights into the economic side of what is essentially a profitable industry.

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America Industry Birds Squirrels 243

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. These are magical experiences.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2018

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. The book becomes most engaging when Brooke tells stories based on his or his colleagues’ experience.

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Albatross Penguins Research Breeding 114

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

I’m sure many of you have had similar experiences. I’m wondering as I write if you are shaking your head, uneasy that all these FACTS will interfere with your love of observing owls, an experience that easily borders on the mystical for some of us. But what do we know beyond these commonly seen and heard behaviors?

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

The conservation need is urgent: great attention has rightly been paid to Brazil’s Amazonian rainforest but not enough resources have gone to the Pantanal and the Cerrado, of which only 4% and 5%, respectively, are protected. of species of bird that birders the world over desperately want to experience.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2013

I thought of this experience as I read Still the Same Hawk , a collection of twelve essays about nature and New York City, edited by John Waldman. Not surprisingly, I found the most compelling essays were those by people who had had similar experiences to mine. This is what got me, the incongruity.

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New York New York City 2013 Collecting 113

10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2021

The book is organized into ten chapters, framed by a Prologue and Epilogue focused on Weidensaul’s banding experience in Denali National Park. Even if you have read about these research projects, Weidensaul’s accounts offer fresh angles and updated information. Pause again to think about having this superpower.).

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Cyprus Slaughter Slaughtered Research 262

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2020

Greeney, also part of the Helm Identification series, it focuses on two avian families, combining the information necessary for identification with the latest research on taxonomy and behavior, particularly breeding behavior, and the latest conservation news and status. Like Antpittas and Gnateaters by Harold F. Introduction.

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Guinea Birds Papua New Guinea Family 264

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2022

With nine years of experience using it and birding with beginning birders, I would like to update that opinion. This is, in a way, no surprise since it was designed by birders who have used their own experiences in the field to determine what warbler seekers really need. I got all that information from six tiny icons.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Several years ago, I read about the enormous colonies of breeding birds in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands and I did some research to satisfy my curiosity. ( Google Scholar is an excellent resource and free full-text PDFs can be located for many papers, particularly when research is taxpayer-funded. and Antony W. ” The Auk 128.2

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10,000 Birds

MAY 6, 2014

Each species account includes the following basic information: popular name, scientific name, size (length and wingspan) and weight, and symbols indicating if the male or female are larger in size where appropriate. Wright pointedly recommends William Boyle’s Guide to Bird Finding in New Jersey for more on where to bird in the state.

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New Jersey Birds 2014 Species 254

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Nevertheless, it necessary to combine field experience with museum experience to create a vivid and accurate image of a species. Readers are referred to articles from the bibliography for more information. The images are large and carefully drawn, with page backgrounds of varying shades of brown and gray. Skutch (Cornell Univ.

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America El Salvador Costa Rica Honduras 214

10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2013

The videos and talks have wet our appetites for a book that promises to be visually exciting and fun to use, designed by birders who have used their own experiences in the field to determine what warbler seekers really need. I got all that information from six tiny icons.

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United States North America Species New York 256

10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2018

Pink Pigeons were once found throughout Mauritius, but by the 19th century the population became fragmented and by 1986 only 12 or 16 pigeons remained, depending on your source of information, less than 12 by 1991. Is this the type of avian experience we want? On the WCS web page, Ms. We know what those large flocks were like.

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Mauritius Stud Zoos Eggs 103

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 7, 2018

What do you do when you are a bird guide in a Central American country incredibly rich in birds and other natural resources but which has no birding field guide? You write your own. And, what do you do when you can’t find a publisher? Publish it on your own—in paper, not digitally, with illustrations by three noted nature artists.

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Honduras Birds 2015 Family 107

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2012

I know from experience how accessible Dennis is, last year he helped me identify a damselfly I photographed in Costa Rica (Argia anceps, no common name). He is a naturalist dedicated to widening the circle of people interested in the natural history of odonates. Species accounts are sequential, one running right after the other.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2014

The combination of these scheduled and informal birding efforts culminated in an amazing 135 species seen, many of which were lifers for me! The following omnibus trip report lists every species I saw at any of these locations with information that may be of use to anyone planning to add birding to their Hong Kong itinerary.

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2014 Eagles Asia Groups 232

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MAY 7, 2013

But, if you’ve never had an Osprey encounter, studying this photograph and its text prepares you for what to expect (especially important for bird photographers) and gives the background facts, such as the rough spines on the bottom of Osprey’s feet that help them hang onto their fish, that helps you appreciate the experience.

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North America Bald Eagle Falcons Owls 229

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Non-bird watchers without binoculars and experience are notoriously bad sources of information. The new offspring of that year hang back and leave later, finding their way to their wintering grounds using something other than experience, and something other than being taught by their parents. More alarm calling. Apparently.

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