10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

He is also a serious birder (and a birding friend), and his birding observations and adventures are used throughout the book to introduce evolutionary questions and illustrate the mental interplay between personal experience and scientific curiosity. The book is smartly organized into 12 chapters. This is a book that requires attention.

Science 203

Science Albatross Research Birds 203

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2016

And so, I turn to Better Birding: Tips, Tools & Concepts for the Field , the new book by George L. To an intermediate-level birder like me, the material in Better Birding –highly focused, detailed, based on the latest research and years of field experience– is daunting, but also fascinating. Armistead and Brian L.

Birds 189

Birds Groups 2015 North America 189

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The lessons are written in a relaxed personable way, with separate sections on tools, such as “carving tools and the marks they make” and on techniques, such as “watercolor studio painting,” “drawing from life,” and, of course, “making a block print.”

Birds 142

Birds Eggs Laws Woodpeckers 142

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

These crows have been shown to have a form of Theory of Mind or self-recognition, they understand some basic physics (mechanics, not quantum physics) at a level not seen in most animals, can fashion natural materials to make tools which, of course, they then use for extracting food from hard to get places, and so on.

Abandon 220

Abandon Abandoning Abandonment Research 220

10,000 Birds

APRIL 29, 2014

Part of my regular routine would then be to sit down at my laptop and carefully enter this information in an eBird checklist and then spend however much time I had available to me, tooling around on the bar charts and maps and personal lists to see if that day’s birding had changed anything. I’ll bet I’m not alone here.

Adoptable 177

Adoptable Birds Experience Experiments 177

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 27, 2018

This is why the Yellow Warblers and Baltimore Orioles of summer don’t linger to experience October 31st, and even late fall migrants like kinglets and sparrows move to slightly warmer regions. Lacking the benefit of heated shelters, birds must heed that warning or perish. Spectacled Owl.

Costa Rica 152

Costa Rica Bats Birds Falcons 152

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

I was happy to see that the Resources section in the back of the book covers web sites and books on birds, photography techniques and computer tools programs not covered in the book (like Photoshop), and nature photography forums. In other words, if you value this type of bird photography, it is most probably worth it.

Birds 185

Birds Ethics 2019 Experience 185

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2013

The white tool is used for adjusting your reticulation. The discovery of a bower is always a rewarding experience and once you have established the location of a bower it would appear you can watch the building and dismantling of bowers in the same area for many years to come. Bower at Lake Argyle.

Collecting 164

Collecting Branding Australia Humane 164

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2011

My interest in photography started at age 17 and now it has become a very important part of enjoying and improving my birding experience. This type of situation has repeated itself in many birding tours so I have decided to always bring my camera as a birding ID assistant tool.

Birds 178

Birds Industry Laws Experience 178

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.

Albatross 114

Albatross Penguins Research Breeding 114

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2014

My thoughts won’t cover too many tech specs (you can peruse these at the link above), but will focus on a user’s experience. The 40215 Telephotoadaptor (connected with a T-mount and the eyepiece removed) is the tool of choice for DSLRs. First of all I was struck by how small and light it was. adaptor is not suitable for DSLRs.

Protection 157

Protection Experience Experiments 157

10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2012

The cover of the book (not of Derek Lovitch) gives you some idea of the tools the better birder needs in the early 21st-century. And one of those tools is Geography. That’s NEXRAD radar map in the left binocular lens and a surface weather map on the right. Do you want to be a better birder, a strategic birder?

New Jersey 226

New Jersey Science United States Birds 226

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 25, 2012

Photography is a great tool to improve bird ID accuracy as explored in my previous post Photography and Birding. My experience is only with Canon equipment which I have used for five years, of course there is also Nikon and others but these will not be considered here. Also the 100-400 lens is shorter and fits better in my bag.

Birds 167

Birds Experience Experiments Protection 167

10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2019

Floyd’s writing style draws the reader in, including us in his experiences and observations, making the personal communal. The sections are also labeled according to the months of the year, the idea being that the book will take us through a year of birding.

Birds 114

Birds North America Breeding America 114

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 8, 2011

A wonderful Audubon magazine article on birds’ bills (“ Pecking Order “) notes that individual Great Tits in England experience a change in bill shape between summer and winter as their primary food sources shift. Iconic and amazing Galápagos finches, some of which even learned how to use tools.

2003 204

2003 Sparrows Family South America 204

4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

Grief, friendship, gratitude, wonder, and other things we animals experience. Waterfall Dances: Do animals have spiritual experiences? Crows from the remote Pacific island of New Caledonia show incredibly high-level skills when they make and use tools. They can add features to improve a tool, a skill supposedly unique to humans.

Emotional 100

Emotional Animal Whales Whaling 100

Animal Person

MAY 13, 2009

I sometimes experience despair thinking about all of the suffering. It is, however, a tool that has demonstrated, positive effects on the human brain. We vegans have a lot of feelings associated with why we do what we do and I, for one, find it necessary to do a lot of work around my emotions. And I often am overcome with sadness.

Emotional 100

Emotional Vegan Ethics Suffering 100

4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 7, 2010

4 on Forbes’ list of 2009 “Best Branded Mobile Applications” after its 2009 launch as an iPhone application, now provides pet owners an even more engaging mobile experience through location-based utility, entertaining content featuring videos and photos, and relevant pet information. “petcentric,” ranked No.

Branding 100

Branding Pets 2009 United States 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 29, 2014

The multitude of tools and ways you can enter/view your personal data is quite impressive, and it only continues to grow…although it might be on a subconscious level, embracing eBird more can be another kick in the butt to get out in the field. EBird makes this possible. Try eBird.

Birds 195

Birds Portland Oregon 2015 195

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 30, 2017

’ They are challenging to find, frustrating to photograph, and the antbird experience often includes heat and humidity, mud and bugs. It was one of those magic experiences when you are so absorbed you forget you have a camera. However, all is forgotten when you get a good look at them.

Brazil 141

Brazil Birds Los Angeles Tigers 141

Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

Beloved family pet Dalmatian, Pepper, is stolen, and after several weeks of searching is discovered to have been experimented on at a hospital and died on the table when researchers tried to implant her with an experimental cardiac pacemaker. By the end of my time as researcher, I was performing behavioral experiments on humans.

Animal Welfare 100

Animal Welfare Monkeys Animal Welfare Act Vivisection 100

4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 3, 2009

Covering everything from quirky cats with a lot of energy to more complex matters like helping a once outdoor cat adjust to its new indoor lifestyle, Housecat Housecall gives cat owners the knowledge and tools they need to create a well-balanced home life for the whole family, including the cat.

St. Louis 100

St. Louis Lifestyle Cats Family 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2012

Furthermore, Binford claimed, if we maintained ideas of recently studied modern human hunter-gatherers in our brains, as the model for ancient hominids who used tools (sometimes associated with bones) we would tend to see those foragers, more or less, in the archaeological record of our past, whether they were really there or not.

Humane 165

Humane Lions Buffalo Hunting 165

10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2014

Using this hold, the runners would quickly walk from the netters to the weighing table, where at least one student would use plier-like tools to squeeze a delicate band on a bird’s right leg, one person would weigh the bird, and one person would record the unique band number as well as the bird’s weight. Each took merely a minute or two.

Birds 173

Birds Florida Groups Breeding 173

10,000 Birds

APRIL 12, 2011

We started out as a team with enthusiasm and knowledge, but little experience in book-making. I submerge myself into its characteristics and into its ‘feel’, before I start working on the guide – and for the time that I am working on an area, that area is my favourite. As for the books, that is a different matter.

Badgers 145

Badgers Ethics Africa Spain 145

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

We need more publishers of quality birding books and more birder-writers offering fresh views, sharing their experiences, covering new, niche subjects. This is their first title that is not a cook or crafts book, and I hope there will be more. A Redux” but is really about birding and conservation.

Birds 262

Birds North Carolina North America Owls 262

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2015

She has grown up in the reserve and has no experience of the environment of which tourists would not be a permanent, however boring part of. The tools envisaged for this are improving habitat management (including transboundary reserves), fighting the poachers and collaborating with local communities. Telia, copyright © Nitin Bhardwaj.

Tigers 237

Tigers India Killing 2012 237

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2012

What tools did you use in the field? Considering my own limited skills and experience, and the reported species that I missed, I think 360 or even 370 is possible by a more skilled and determined (and possibly insane) birder. I couldn’t get back up to see it before it finally took off for good. The Niagara Frontier was amazing.

New York 171

New York Puerto Rico 2011 Japan 171

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

The Introduction follows the usual format, quickly introducing new birders to the process of bird identification and anatomy and summarizing the Pennsylvania birding experience; a month-by-month outline of the birding year in Pennsylvania, lists the best sites to bird seasonally (Piney Tract, Clarion County in June for grassland birds).

Pennsylvania 157

Pennsylvania Texas Whales Whaling 157

4 The Love Of Animals

APRIL 24, 2009

They will have the opportunity find a forever home, experience unconditional love or transition to the Other Side. Whichever circumstance they experience as a result of their rescue, is better than where they came from and any of those options are desirable and welcomed by them.

Rescue 100

Rescue Compassion Emotional Suffering 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 30, 2013

Many years of experience have been lost. Over the last several weeks I have putting in the work to the Queens County Christmas Bird Count because I want it to be known as a good count, because I want to use it as a tool to involve new birders in Queens, and because I want to beat Brooklyn.

Birds 163

Birds New York City New York New Jersey 163

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

This opening section of the book is excellent in and of itself but this is a field guide so I must, obviously, speak to the book’s merits as a tool for identifying birds. of species of bird that birders the world over desperately want to experience.

Brazil 194

Brazil Wildlife 2011 Birds 194

Animal Person

MAY 26, 2010

Reading thousand-word long posts in black type on a plain white screen with nothing interesting to look at isn't exactly a satisfying sensory experience. I didn't like the idea of the cloud for categories at first, but now I do because it's a great visual tool to determine what someone's focus (including mine) is. So I failed.

Vegan 100

Vegan Suffering Free Range Animal 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

This guide will prove invaluable to those who already take an interest in tracking and wish to gain more experience. It is also an important tool to promote the field art of tracking in Europe, a region where tracking as a zoological method can use all the support it can get.

Europe 165

Europe Mammals Animal Birds 165

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Experiments in the field (the famed Asa Wright Nature Center veranda) involving Bananaquits and bananas came up with numbers ranging from 7 to 16, but a tanager always came along to interfere with Bananaquits’ noisy appreciation of their namesake fruit. (2) Which hummingbird was more beautiful—Tufted Coquette or Ruby-topaz Hummingbird? (3)

Trinidad 188

Trinidad Birds South America Research 188

Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 18, 2006

Keith has not only been my favorite Philosophy professor that I have studied under during the course of my college experience, but my favorite professor in general. Also, I am not a vegetarian, though I attempted to be one last year (an experience I plan on posting about).

Factory Farm 40

Factory Farm Factory Farming Morals Factory 40

10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2013

For me, using T he New Stokes Field Guide to Birds, Western Region was a happy experience. Beginning and intermediate birders will find the abundance of clear, well-printed photographs of male and female birds, juvenile and adult, perched and flying, extremely helpful in the field, and the emphasis on shape a good teaching tool.

Birds 152

Birds North America Groups Falcons 152