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How Birds Evolve: What Science Reveals about Their Origin, Lives, and Diversity: A Book Review by a Non-Science Person

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Doug Futuyma believes in science and in the scientific basis of evolution. How Birds Evolve: What Science Reveals about Their Origin, Lives, and Diversity by Douglas J. This isn’t a bad thing, it’s just a very different kind of book than popular books about bird behavior, which rely on story as much as science.

Science

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Bird Day: A Story of 24 Hours and 24 Avian Lives–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2024

And there is diversity in charisma–few people can resist an Emperor Penguin or a Secretary Bird, but common birds like Indian Myna and Black-crowned Night Heron also get their due respect. © 2023 Tony Angell; © 2023 Mark E. Mark Hauber is currently (just appointed!) Black-and-white also allows Angell to play with design and shape.

Chicago

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Our Favorite Bird Books (and one pair of Binoculars) of 2022

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Mark]: This luscious book, Penguins: The Ultimate Guide , by De Roy, Jones, and Cornthwaite, is the second edition of a book first published in 2015. But this is more than a coffee table book. There is a wealth of information about these marvelous creatures, given via prose essays, and charts, and tables – it’s all quite user-friendly.

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Journeys With Emperors: Tracking the World’s Most Extreme Penguin–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Journeys With Penguins: Tracking the World’s Most Extreme Penguin is a different type of penguin book. Kooyman (co-author with Jim Mastro) spent decades studying Emperor Penguins and can be considered the world’s foremost expert on the species. Author Gerald L.

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Flock to Marion

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2022

After securing our passage, I patiently waited for this once-in-a-lifetime experience to a place we have never been and lacked any knowledge of, we were in for a complete surprise. These have been used by meteorologists, technicians, and researchers who spend about 13 months on the island at a time researching a variety of sciences.

South Africa

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What the Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

I’m sure many of you have had similar experiences. Jennifer Ackerman points out in the introduction to What the Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds , that we don’t know much, but that very soon we may know a lot more. But what do we know beyond these commonly seen and heard behaviors?

Owls

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Far From Land: The Mysterious Lives of Seabirds–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2018

Scientists were largely limited to studies birds in breeding colonies, at least those we knew about and that were accessible (and, if you think that’s a complete list, you haven’t read the news that came out this week about a new colony of Adélie penguins found in the Danger Islands, Antarctica). The penguin fanatics.

Albatross

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Bird Books for Children: From Colors & Shapes to Discovering Central Park

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2019

This large picture book features simple, yet clever, rhymes, most of which begin with “Mama build a little nest…” and go on to describe a wide variety of bird nests–a small hummingbird cup, a woven weaverbird sac, a floating Grebe’s nest anchored to water plants, even the foot of ‘daddy’ Emperor Penguin.

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Bird Talk: An Exploration of Avian Communication–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2021

Bird communication is a complex and evolving science. Apparently, species like Sand Martins and Emperor Penguins develop distinct parent-child vocalizations. Research experiments are described without citing the names of the researchers themselves or any other background information. How do they know?

North America

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Better Living Through Birding: Notes From a Black Man in the Natural World–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2023

It is also about Chris’s personal history: his boyhood in suburban Long Island, college years at Harvard and the struggle to come out, ‘nerdy’ passions beyond birding–namely science fiction books and films, career highs at Marvel Comics, travels to foreign countries, and his complicated relationships with his parents.

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Africa’s endangered species

10,000 Birds

JULY 10, 2012

More than 150 bird species are known to have become extinct over the past 500 years, and many more are estimated to have been driven to extinction before they became known to science. An African Penguins strolls along Boulders Beach, Simonstown, South Africa.

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What It’s Like to Be a Bird: A Review of the New Sibley Book

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2020

This is a delightful book, large (8-1/2 by 11 inches), filled with Sibley’s distinctive artwork and an organized potpourri of research-based stories about the science behind bird’s lives. copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley. As Sibley tells us in the Preface, he originally intended to write a children’s book.

2020

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Here’s the new bird family tree. It’s amazing.

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2014

The magnificent history and diversity of birds on Earth came into sharper focus this month with the publication of 28 new scientific papers in Science and other journals. This major radiation of water-adapted birds includes loons, penguins, and the remarkable tubenoses along with a variety of totipalmate and wading birds. Jarvis et al.

Family

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Penguins: The Ultimate Guide — A Review by a Penguin Groupie

10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2015

Last month woodpeckers, this month penguins. None fly, most are curious and social, which probably contributes to our cultural perception of penguins as one step away from human. King Penguins heading out to feed, Macquarie Island (beginning of book). The introductory Penguin Who’s Who introduces each species visually.

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How Birds Evolve: What Science Reveals about Their Origin, Lives, and Diversity: A Book Review by a Non-Science Person

Bird Day: A Story of 24 Hours and 24 Avian Lives–A Book Review

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What the Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds: A Book Review

Far From Land: The Mysterious Lives of Seabirds–A Book Review

Bird Books for Children: From Colors & Shapes to Discovering Central Park

Bird Talk: An Exploration of Avian Communication–A Book Review

Better Living Through Birding: Notes From a Black Man in the Natural World–A Book Review

Africa’s endangered species

What It’s Like to Be a Bird: A Review of the New Sibley Book

Here’s the new bird family tree. It’s amazing.

Penguins: The Ultimate Guide — A Review by a Penguin Groupie

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