10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Unlike some of us who started birding in midlife, Rogers brings to her new passion an adventurous history of a life lived outdoors–rock climbing (serious rock climbing, not in a gym), kayaking, ballooning, environmental stewardship, time in Alaska and Antarctica–which she uses to inform her new birding experiences. ISBN-10 ? : ?

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2021

Before I had a clue what I was doing, I encompassed the Danube backwaters into the reserve borders that I drew on transparent paper pressed against a street map of the city. Now, I have mixed feelings: cautious and by experience mistrustful, but happy. Golden Jackals in Beljarica. Is the Serbian Government turning green?

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Text is on the left, plates are on the right. He talks about how he approaches bird illustration in an article on the Princeton University Press web site, and it’s worth reading to get a sense of how much work has gone into these images. The images on the right, from the Peru field guide, are more intense in color.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 12, 2021

Are 12s right for birding? I tested the 12s at my usual stomping grounds where I am used to local species and landscape, at their usual distances from the observer, so I could immediately spot a different experience. For such habitats, the right beast is NL 8×42, with unbelievable width and depth of FOV. What do you think?

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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. Princeton University Press, 2013. The Warbler Guide.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Paddling around the Veliko Ratno Island Reserve in almost downtown Belgrade was such a liberating experience of getting close to nature while not having to travel far or invest much. In order to understand the nature of the river, which created my experiences and advice such as they are, think of the lower Mississippi.).

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

This via the ALF Press Office : As he left his car parked in a garage on campus, he was whistling and had no idea he had been followed. We preceded to vandalize his shiny new Audi, paid for with blood money.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

A that point in time, I could not imagine the adventure that I was going to experience and how birds would have rescued me. Hallé, ‘Atlas Poetic Botanic’, edition MIT Press, 2018). I eventually felt at ease when I found my binoculars in my backpack; I always appreciate watching birds in any new area that I visit.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 29, 2012

Plus, the time was finally right for me to savor a local slice of that southern Snowy Owl invasion. The bad news was that it had flown away right before we arrived, but the good news is that it hadn’t traveled far. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2024

With its striking combination of colour rings I suspected that it would be easy to find out more about this particular bird, and I was right. I photographed the godwit because of the rings, but when I pressed the shutter on the Black-headed Gull ( above ) I hadn’t even noticed that it was ringed.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2013

Therefore I have decided to right my wrong by providing first and foremost some avian eye candy, and not talk. Judging by my experiences with the species, the Black-tailed Godwit’s behaviour is restricted to two aspects. Aspect one is feeding when humans are not around.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 18, 2016

The nation of Colombia has been the victim of some bad press over the last few decades, not all of this is entirely unjustified. It’s an incredible experience to see these cotton balls on stilts as they hop out from the dense mountain forest underbrush and dance around in front of you.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Press, 2000), and updated in terms of taxonomy, status, and distribution. Silhouettes along the border of the right-hand page depict the shape of the bird from different angles (a huge aid to those of us who end up with photos against the light). Press in 2003. Garrido and Arturo Kirkconnell (Cornell Univ. Garrido, et al.,

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

So, looking a Jerry Liguori’s newest publication, Hawks At A Distance: Identification of Migrant Raptors (Princeton University Press, 2011), I ask myself, “Why? Both books are published by Princeton University Press, which means the binding and paper are of high, sturdy quality, and that the color photographs are well printed.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2023

.” They conclude that many non-vocalizing Empidonax flycatchers can be identified in the field, but only “when several field characters are used in combination–and after one has gained experience in looking at these characters on singing/calling and captive birds (i.e., known-identity).”** illus: 55 color + b/w illus.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2022

It stops those thousands of migrating birds flying across the Gulf of Mexico and directs them right onto the trees, fields, sanctuaries, beaches along the Bolivar Peninsula, where they hopefully find food and fresh water. I imagined walking right up to them. This was the High Island Experience, I was told. American Avocets.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2013

Wheeler (Houghton Mifflin, 2001), and A Photographic Guide to North American Raptors (Wheeler and Clark, Princeton University Press, 2003), and you have a whole lot of excellent hawk identification books and field guides. They are a great addition. Arrows do have their limits.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2012

Like many odenate enthusiasts, I was excited when I heard that Dennis Paulson’s field guide, Dragonflies and Damselflies of the East , was finally being published by Princeton University Press. Species accounts are sequential, one running right after the other. Dennis Paulson is a “real” zoologist; he received his Ph.D. This one is 2.5

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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. Princeton University Press promises an app and an enhanced ebook in the spring of 2014. The Warbler Guide.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2012

Fortunately, Alan Tilmouth, a beat writer with pelagic experience, expressed an interest in the book as well. Howell continues his tradition of giving clarity to what most birders find intimidating with Petrels, Albatrosses & Storm-Petrels of North America: A Photographic Guide , just published by Princeton University Press.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2012

It’s the warbler that is often the last unchecked species on birders’ life lists and, whether you list or not, for most of us observing it is a once in a lifetime experience. Let me know if you have seen the Kirtland’s Warbler, if you were part of the Magee Marsh experience or if you made the trip to Mio, and what that birding trip was like.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

They say so right here in the Preface of Oceanic Birds of The World: A Photo Guide —seabirds are “some of the most challenging of all birds to identify.” Care has been taken to align the photographs and photo plates so the birds always face right, allowing for a consistency of view that makes comparative examination easier.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 24, 2012

can experience pleasure and pain) and because they not only have but can act on their preferences, any view that holds that pleasures or pains, or preference-satisfactions or frustrations matter morally is bound to seem attractive to those in search of the moral basis for the animal rights movement. Because animals are sentient (i.e.,

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2012

That’s NEXRAD radar map in the left binocular lens and a surface weather map on the right. The chapter “Vagrants” promotes the joys and difficulties of finding that mega-rarity on your own, giving Lovitch’s own experiences using habitat, geography, and weather to make rarity predictions that unfortunately don’t come true.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2014

Howell, Ian Lewington, and Will Russell, right in front of me. Rare Birds of North America is available in a number of digital formats (see their online catalog for the list), part of Princeton University Press’s new eBook initiative. Princeton University Press, Feb. by Steve N. Howell, Ian Lewington and Will Russell.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 8, 2012

Our experience on the ground confirms your reporting that this trade is increasingly tied to organized crime. Money for greater local enforcement is now the most pressing need to combat poachers and the armed wildlife trade syndicates to which they are increasingly linked.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2017

Press, 2011). Walking through Neotropical rainforests is like walking through a wonderland of constant interactions amongst plants, birds, insects, reptiles, and mammals, which are in turn the consequences of hundreds of years of adaptation and evolution, and you can see it happening right in front of you. is remarkable.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

I have had similar experiences at Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge and you are so right on when you say “am I ever glad that I am a birder!&# It was a great experience. Wicked, right? Larry Jordan Mar 17th, 2011 at 12:13 am Wow Corey, that must have been some sight to behold, and sound too! Hat-tip to Stella.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Harrison writes in the introductory section “How To Use This Book”: “The basis of distinguishing confusion species is personal field experience gained over the past 60 or more years of sailing the world’s oceans during which all but one of the more than 430 species contained in this volume have been observed.”

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10,000 Birds

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.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

First issued in a limited printing in 1972, then re-issued by Ammo Press in 2008 after Harper’s death in June 2007, it contains images that are iconic and familiar, striking and unique. He describes his experience in his introduction to Birds & Words : I took my first good look at birds as subject matter.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 13, 2011

My anger at the TSA is that I think the grope is a violation of my civil rights, low wage employees get to legally do to me something that any other stranger could be arrested for and I see it as bad theater meant to make me feel safe. Turns out that his theft on the job could total upwards of $50,000 over the past six months alone!

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2022

In a press statement released by the species, it says “We are proud to raise our own chicks and condemn the practice of some of our relatives to dupe other birds into becoming foster parents” During the lockdown here in my Shanghai apartment complex, the TV advertisements in the elevators were not changed for almost 3 months.

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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. Comstock Publishing Associates, imprint of Cornell University Press, December 2012.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2020

Each spread consists of a full-page painting of a bird or group of birds on the left and a combination of text and illustrations on the right. The Portfolio of Birds is comprised of 87 2-page spreads.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 30, 2019

Creatures that crawled, or worse, slithered, would lie in the bottoms, pressed into shade and invisibility. That summer of 1938, when he was ten years old, Cade read of two brothers, Frank and John Craighead, who wrote of their experiences with falcons in National Geographic. This wasn’t a place for the inexperienced.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 28, 2012

I first met Robert Gallardo on my first trip to the neotropics, a wonderful experience at the first Mesoamerican Bird Festival in Honduras in 2009. Go to www.indiegogo.com Enter the website and click on “Browse Campaigns” in the upper right hand corner. Contact Rick Thom at Rick.Thom AT mdc.mo DOT gov for details.

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