10,000 Birds
APRIL 4, 2014
The many eyes on this particular citizen-science prize have also yeilded other results as well. Now we gamble again (literally as well as figuratively – there’s a split-pot prize for predicting the dates of arrival, egg-laying, and other major events) on the hope that they will lay viable eggs and successfully rear young.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 22, 2011
Many are familiar with dissecting owl pellets, but several birds will caste a pellet including hawks, eagles, gulls, herons and heck, I once witnessed a Scissor-tailed Flycatcher hack up a small one. Above is a pellet from one of a pair of Great Horned Owls that nested a few blocks from my apartment.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 7, 2019
Written in a friendly, inclusive style quietly grounded in science, How to Know the Birds is an excellent addition to the growing list of birding essay books by talented birder/writers like Pete Dunne and Kenn Kaufman.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 22, 2013
Not only is it a very impressive citizen science project that manages to marshal the legions of birders around Canada and the U.S., Time will tell how much good science can be wrung from the data (due to observer bias, misidentifications, the vastly differing skillsets of contributing observers, under-birded areas, etc.),
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 6, 2019
Eight Owls Make a heart.’ Jenkins has written and illustrated a number of science-based books for children, many with his wife, Robin Page. She does like this book, though I’m not sure if it’s the shapes, colors, or the rhythm of the text, which nicely matches Harper’s whimsical images.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 3, 2020
This is more than eBird reports–a checklist generated from the citizen science database lists only 1,413 species. The guide covers 1,433 species, the number of birds documented at the end of 2014, the cutoff point for the book. Clearly, this is an under-birded country. .
10,000 Birds
JULY 20, 2023
Two weeks later, it was a young math and science teacher from Oregon named Brent who asked me to take him with me. I told him that occasionally, with luck, I might hear a Laughing Falcon there. I mentioned that I used to see Ferruginous Pygmy-Owls there, but that they had been shy of late. A Russet-crowned Motmot , of course.
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