10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
The latter is half the size of the Grey, but with its stout beak and prominent eyes shows a distinct family likeness. Note the family likeness to the Grey Plover, with big head and large eyes Brancaster is always a reliable site for Black-tailed Godwits, but when I first arrived there were none to be seen. Pinkfooted Geese.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 5, 2022
It also summarizes the vagrancy status of every bird family in the whole wide world, which makes it fun to read as well as superbly educational. There are many more factors than I imagined: compass errors, wind drift, overshooting, extreme weather and irruptions, natural dispersal, and human-driven vagrancy.
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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 6, 2021
The best test of that proposition, of course, is to repeat it to any one of the hundreds of thousands of birders who have, say, a family. When he isn’t traveling the world in search of birds, art, and excitement, Rick Wright lives in northern New Jersey with his family, Alison Beringer and Avril Huang, and their black lab puppy, Quetzal.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 20, 2014
’s bird family tree in a new tab and follow along as you read. So do parrots, some songbirds, humans, and a few other mammals. In 2008, Nick Sly published a review of Hackett et al. titled Avian relationships – What do we know? Now it’s late 2014, six and a half years later, and here’s what we know today.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 6, 2022
In northern habitats, they could be Common Ravens, geese , or chickadees. You’ll probably hear them first, like so many others of their family, they aren’t shy about making some noise. As if in defiance of the dominant human presence, they roost in large palm trees, even in urban parks and along noisy, busy roads.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 27, 2015
Since we’ve covered some generalities already, once a month I’ll be exploring how a species, genus, or family of birds got its name, and how those names fit in with our larger understanding of, and relationship with, birds. At the request of blog management, I’m embarking on a series of posts on the names of birds.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 14, 2014
The day before the marmot encounter, I spotted an American Robin on my lawn; the night before that, the distinctive sound of a small flock of Snow Geese sounded from the sky above my apartment, heading north. But global climate change is by no means the only way that humans can throw a wrench into those gears.
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