10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Nils Navarro Pacheco is described in the book’s bio as a wildlife artist and illustrator, with employment experience as a herpes taxonomist and curator, and current passions for conservation and helping young wildlife artists in the Caribbean and Latin America. And, it is beautiful to look at. by Nils Navarro.

Cuba 226

Cuba Birds United States 2000 226

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

(SOPI) is the leading ornithological organization and it performs research, education, and outreach. Much of the research regarding Caribbean ecology and ornithology has been conducted in Puerto Rico. There are arguments for adding all territories, but experience demonstrates that the ABA moves glacially when it comes to the ABA Area.

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Puerto Rico Virgin Islands Hawaii United States 148

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2014

Several recent studies have found that tinamous are embedded within the ratites, which means that either they regained the ability to fly or (as many researchers feel is more likely) that flightlessness and large body size arose multiple times within the paleognaths, a topic discussed in detail at Tetrapod Zoology. Jarvis et al. Jarvis et al.

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Family Parrots Birds 2014 279

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.

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2020 Birds Groups North America 263

10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2012

There is a painfully bad song called “Drunk Bird Watching” on You Tube but the only “bird” seems to be someone saying “hello” like a caged parrot. So, I will have to take the last refuge of a lazy blogger and report from personal experience. No, I have not birded drunk before.

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Birds illegal Parrots 2010 250

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

The archipelago consists of 17,000 islands stretching out over 2500 miles along the Equator with a varied history of avian research and study, most on the under- or not-studied side. And, I’m stuck unless I remember that they are part of the Psittacidae family (not Parrot family, there are no English common name index entries).

Indonesia 122

Indonesia Brunei Birds Malaysia 122

10,000 Birds

MARCH 12, 2011

But this critically endangered and majestic blue parrot has remained elusive to most of the world and, sniffle sniffle, to me as well. They really appeared to enjoy this, because as soon as they swam back to the rocks they would line up again to repeat the experience. It seemed like a really fun way to spend the day!

Brazil 199

Brazil 2011 Birds Wildlife 199

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

However, there are those species which have a hard time bringing attention to themselves such as Yellow-shouldered Blackbird , Giant Nuthatch , and Vinaceous-breasted Parrot. Regardless of their popularity, these species and the threatened ecosystems they inhabit are equally spectacular.

Ecuador 192

Ecuador California Condor Blackbirds Parrots 192

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Each spread (text and plate) is prefaced with the names of the family (common and scientific names, e.g., ‘Parrots Psittacidae’) and a 1-4 line paragraph summarizing common identification features and distribution. I wish the flight images for the hawks, falcons, parakeets, and parrots were larger.

America 212

America El Salvador Costa Rica Honduras 212

10,000 Birds

MAY 14, 2018

Later on, as my research got a little bit more detailed, this might just turn out to be a huge stop. And while the actual number of species that day I was there was not incredible, it is still an amazing thing to experience, being the only person, on the island with that many birds.

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2000 Rights Turkey Parrots 100

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MAY 8, 2017

I never researched the resort, imagining that it lacked the amenities my family wanted, but visiting for dinner allowed us to rent its grandeur without forking over the considerable room rates. The food was better than decent, which exceeds our experience of Panamanian cuisine at most other locations. Make sure you can do the same.

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Panama 2017 Monkeys Family 100

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OCTOBER 3, 2017

Illustrations were created using diverse visual and physical source materials–skin collections from Australian museums and a database of over 300,000 photographs (plus, of course, the artists’ years of field experience). These “vignettes” are sadly limited due to space considerations. Bruce Richardson.

Australia 106

Australia Birds Penguins 2015 106

10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2024

Her teacher is assumed to have been a very young Edgar Lear, who learned the art because he wanted to produce his own book on parrots and who also did illustrations for John Gould. Elizabeth’s watercolor of the Australian Mulga Parrot, for example, was used as the basis for H.C. Issues of authorship are also explored.

Australia 180

Australia Birds Europe Collecting 180

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2023

So, all this makes birding this place an occasionally less than pleasant experience. The family has about 37 species, but that includes several fulvettas – only 21 of the species have “parrotbill” in their names (and frankly, the bills of fulvettas do not look like those of parrots at all).

Pandas 197

Pandas Birds Eggs China 197