10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 16, 2019

There’s so much more that can be said about this group of birds but that’s the first description that comes to mind. However, as DNA and morphological studies have indicated, despite the barbets of Asia and Africa looking quite like the ones in the Americas, they aren’t closely related to each other.

Costa Rica 167

Costa Rica Colombia South America Ecuador 167

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2014

My group came to Montezuma to spy tasty Chocó endemic tanagers, hummingbirds, and anything else we could lay eyes on. Several generations of Leopoldina’s family operate the lodge, serving delicious food and hospitality in a clean, comfortable environment. This, of course, was a great boon for our group.

Colombia 264

Colombia Birds South America America 264

10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2017

In a time of little published information about the rainforests of Central and South America aside from scientific journal articles and the works of 19th-century naturalists, the “little green book,” as it was called, became a must-read amongst nature-oriented travelers and researchers.

South America 150

South America Ecuador Reptiles America 150

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 8, 2011

” Bill shape and systematics For a long time, the colorful, diverse, and species-rich group of primarily New World birds called nine-primaried oscines (about 10 percent of all living bird species) were classified largely by the shapes and sizes of their bills. .” These are neither sparrows, nor finches, but tanagers.

2003 211

2003 Sparrows Family South America 211

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

In the mean time, a family group of Black-throated Magpie-Jays were frolicking in the breeze high over the dry valley, showing off their exorbitantly long tail streamers. It did not take long before we had a family group of Tufted Jays right by the side of the road (KM 216) and an uncommon Gray-collared Becard at the same spot.

Mexico 191

Mexico Costa Rica Arizona Birds 191

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2021

Yes, it’s nice to have information on 817 birds, and it’s wonderful to have full descriptions and photographs of birds commonly seen in Central and South America. Color-coded page headings denote bird groups, matched by color-coded bird silhouette icons located midway down the edge of the page. SPECIES ACCOUNTS.

North America 279

North America America Birds California Condor 279

10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2019

This does not include the various changes made to Latin names, taxonomic ordering, nor changes to families.: Split from the Three-striped Warbler of South America, yet another species is added to the list of birds only found in the mountains of Costa Rica and Panama. Spot-bellied Bobwhite bites the dust.

Costa Rica 200

Costa Rica Birds Owls South America 200

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

There were three profound questions my birding group discussed while we birded Trinidad and Tobago, back in December 2012: (1) How many Bananaquits could fit on a banana? (2) It is organized taxonomically, with families identified by first scientific and then popular name. 3) What was the best guide to the birds of Trinidad and Tobago?

Trinidad 194

Trinidad Birds South America Research 194

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 28, 2014

They packed up in June of 2013 and headed south from San Diego with the southern tip of South America as their destination. Sixteen species within the antbird family (Thamnophidae) are considered true obligate army ant followers. A bite from an army ant can really pack a punch; I speak from experience.

San Diego 187

San Diego South America Costa Rica America 187

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2012

It seems strange that I’ll miss the return of the Sun this year, as I leave this week for a trade show and then a short trip out west to see my family. I’ve family to raise and no time for modeling.” Once the eggs hatch the family begins the long walk down to the shoreline. “Do you mind?

South America 160

South America Eggs Family Raised 160

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The answers involve phylogenies, evolutionary family trees, derived from DNA studies combined with fossil records, and geological concepts of how the continents and oceans were formed from super land masses. Chapters are generously illustrated with figures, tables and photographs. 70) is adorable as well as educational.

Science 214

Science Albatross Research Birds 214

10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2014

Eventually they began treating whole bird groups as if they were the intermarrying scions of English aristocrats, and that’s why you have page upon hyphenated page of bush-tyrants, chat-tyrants, ground-tyrants, tit-tyrants, pygmy-tyrants, shrike-tyrants, shrike-vireos, shrike-tanagers, tit-spinetails, and tyrant-manakins. Also variegated.

Peru 254

Peru Birds South America Owls 254

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2020

But, the numbers are quite large, and the birds organized in groupings that, for the most part, make it an easy process to figure out which Antwren (or Woodcreeper or Seedeater) is which. And, it has to be added that all of these artists and the additional seven artists contributed images that filled out plates of most of the bird families.

Bolivia 172

Bolivia Birds Brazil Switzerland 172

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2012

And, I started daydreaming about encountering something a little different, maybe a Horned Frog, Ceratophrys cornuta, a large, squat green and brown frog of South America, with a wide mouth large enough to eat other frogs as well as reptiles. But, within the frog group there is a tremendous range of diversity.

Reptiles 184

Reptiles Madagascar Family New York City 184

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

I happen to be particularly fond of turtles because my family has taken care of a small box turtle for 30 years (beware–turtles are extremely low-maintenance pets but will outlast your child’s youth and probably your life). Or that tortoises and terrapins are considered part of the turtle family. Lovich and Whit Gibbons.

Turtles 196

Turtles Tortoises Family Terrapins 196

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2019

The alarming decline of grassland species like the Upland Sandpiper ( Bartramia longicauda ) and Eastern Meadowlark ( Sturnella magna ) has been the most precipitous and extensive of any group of North American birds, and much of this decline results from changes in agricultural land management.

Vermont 119

Vermont Belgium Farming Europe 119

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2016

In the Peterson field guide tradition, text and range maps are on the left and illustrations are on the right (though, unlike the tradition Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America there are no arrows pointing to field marks). Each species account lists the basics—common name, scientific name, measurements in inches and centimeters.

El Salvador 232

El Salvador America Costa Rica Honduras 232

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2014

It confirms many of the once-radical notions put forward or refined by Shannon Hackett and her colleagues in 2008, and several since, and it proposes solutions to some of the most deeply unresolved questions about how major bird groups are related to each other. ( ’s bird family tree in a new tab and follow along as you read.

Family 279

Family Birds Parrots 2014 279

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

Found throughout South America in ever-dwindling numbers these extremely beautiful birds – threatened by habitat destruction and collection for the wild bird trade – are often difficult to see and hard to find. As this is an ongoing project we accept applications and volunteers throughout the year.

Peru 255

Peru Parrots 2011 South America 255

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2015

Barker, and Carroll Henderson is a well-researched, copiously illustrated, engaging study of bird feeding practices, personalities, inventions marketing, and companies that developed in the United States from the late 19th century to the present day, with a little bit of Canada, Europe, and South America thrown in.

America 229

America Industry Birds Squirrels 229

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

But, unlike most books focused on a bird family, this one is organized geographically. Each chapter focuses on a specific geographic area of penguin population: (1) Antarctica, (2) South Georgia, (3) Falkland Islands, (4) South Africa and Tristan de Cunha, (5) New Zealand and Australia, (6) South America and Galapagos.

Penguins 278

Penguins New Zealand Georgia Albatross 278

10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2013

A walk through this land may wake up a family group of Peruvian Thick-knees crouched on their day roost, or flush a flock of Least Seedsnipes taking advantage of the seasonal seed production. Yellowish Pipit (left) and Short-tailed Field-Tyrant inhabit the short grass habitats and agricultural fields along the Peruvian Coastal Desert.

Peru 171

Peru Birds Parrots Chile 171

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 26, 2021

This book is essentially about those birds that breed on the continent south of the Sahara, a topic few birders are familiar with. A few years ago, in the American Birding Association FB group I posted a question: Where would you go if funds weren’t a problem? Day after day went by, with much sound but no sight of the peacocks.

Congo 264

Congo Africa South Africa Madagascar 264

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 22, 2013

And now we enter into a family of birds more or less unknown to non-birders. And truth told, over the years they’ve been something of a square peg for ornithologists too, not fitting precisely into any of the known families of birds. But that’s a group for a different time. Horned Grebe , photo by Julie Gidwitz.

Jordan 192

Jordan Guatemala Birds South America 192

10,000 Birds

APRIL 9, 2013

These large seedeaters (belonging to the weaver family) are so named for the generally black plumage of the adult male, resembling a widow in mourning. A male Long-tailed Widowbird in heavy flapping display flight low over the grassland in South Africa by Adam Riley. Africa’s impressive Long-tailed Widowbird by Adam Riley.

Papua New Guinea 238

Papua New Guinea South Africa Africa Zimbabwe 238

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

It actually makes a lot of sense, the geographic features of the isthmus between North America (including Mexico, because Mexico is part of North America) and South America cut across political lines, as do birds. One field guide, seven countries. Text is on the left, plates are on the right.

America 213

America El Salvador Costa Rica Honduras 213

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Their taxonomic affinities have caused great confusion and debate amongst ornithologists; they were originally assigned to the thrush family, then Old World warblers before being shifted to babblers (the last mentioned a common dumping-ground for any aberrant passerines).

South Africa 222

South Africa Lesotho Africa Swaziland 222

10,000 Birds

MAY 30, 2014

It also supports the greatest variety of large mammals in all of South America, including such iconic species as Maned Wolf and Giant Anteater. There are approximately 10,000 plant species in the Cerrado. The wooded savanna habitat was home to a variety of widespread generalists as well as range-restricted specialists.

Brazil 167

Brazil South America Collecting America 167

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Starting in the mid-1990s, there was a “where to watch birds in…” series of five site guides written by Nigel Wheatley and covering South America (1994), Africa (1995), Asia (1996), Europe & Russia (2000) and Central America & the Caribbean (2001). Family accounts for all 142 bird families recorded from the region.

Africa 169

Africa Botswana Nigeria Namibia 169

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2019

A bird of lowland and foothill rainforest, the Yellow-throated Toucan can be seen in most parts of the Caribbean slope and from the Carara area south to Panama. As with related species in South America, pairs also give a loud yelping duet from the top of canopy emergents in the morning and late afternoon.

Costa Rica 174

Costa Rica Panama Eating Eggs South America 174

10,000 Birds

MAY 14, 2014

First off, it seems that New Zealand’s two iconic families of ratites, large flightless southern birds that includes emus, rhea, ostriches, cassowaries and the extinct elephant birds, are not particularly closely related. Moa and Kiwi aren’t brothers and sisters. The kiwi, on the other hand, seem to be closer to emu.

New Zealand 161

New Zealand Penguins Sea Lions Lions 161

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

Not, as Linneaus thought, an ostrich, nor even, as later scientists concluded, a distant cousin of pigeons deserving of family rank, it was an honest-to-goodness pigeon, deeply embedded within the family Columbidae. The Dodo ( Raphus cucullatus ) — that towering icon of modern anthropogenic extinctions — was a pigeon.

Solomon Islands 275

Solomon Islands Guinea Mauritius Humane 275

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

More than a few groups of birds around the world have been given names with wren in it, almost as if the sight of a very small and active bird automatically associates with the small Winter Wren of England where most of the namers originated. But there is one exceptionally brightly coloured exception to this, the fairy-wrens of Australia.

Australia 172

Australia New Zealand South America Asia 172

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Duck : “any of various swimming birds (family Anatidae, the duck family) in which the neck and legs are short, the feet typically webbed, the bill often broad and flat, and the sexes usually different from each other in plumage.”. Some entries include etymology (word history) information.

Albatross 104

Albatross Bears Ducks Bald Eagle 104

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

There are a couple of species that demand more description, Crimson Rosella for example, with its three highly variable morphological groups, and Australian Masked Owl, with its variability in size and plumage, and that space is allocated. (I There are three to four species on each page, for the most part.

Australia 238

Australia Birds 2017 Groups 238

10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2019

I hesitated because a 496-page book about two skulky neotropical bird groups is a little intimidating. Antpittas and Gnateaters covers 64 species in six genera and two families. (I Here’s Plate 3, the third plate for Conopophaga , one of the two genera of the Gnateater family. Antpittas and Gnateaters by Harry F.

Research 140

Research Eggs South America Costa Rica 140

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Approximately 2,300 bird species inhabit Africa, however as impressive as that sounds, much smaller South America boasts nearly 1,000 species more. I cannot but admit that South America is the “bird continent” but as Peter Kaestner, one of the world’s top listers, so eloquently put it, Africa is nevertheless the “birding continent”.

Papua New Guinea 219

Papua New Guinea Madagascar Africa Equatorial Guinea 219