10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2016

It also makes it a little intimidating to be doing a review of Britain’s Birds: An Identification Guide to the Birds of Britain and Ireland. Over 3,200 photographs have been used, most showing species in their habitats. So, how do you find the species account for Kestrel if falcons are not placed between woodpeckers and parakeet?

Ireland 157

Ireland Birds Groups Falcons 157

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2024

I’d love to have known where and when the Great Spotted Woodpecker in my photograph below was ringed, but though the ring is clearly visible, the number stamped on it isn’t. They are of the race islandica , a sub species of the nominate race, limosa. Did it then move on to Ireland? Was this where it spent its winters?

Lithuania 130

Lithuania Iceland Morocco Ireland 130

10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2013

Families do not hike up mountains to sit all day on pointy rocks to watch woodpeckers. Raptors (as I’m going to call the book) continues the unique Crossley method of presenting multiple bird images of a species, 8 to 25 photographs, in a one or two-page plate, with a background representative of the species’ typical habitat.

North America 231

North America Bald Eagle Falcons Owls 231