10,000 Birds
APRIL 25, 2022
Though I usually do not mention this in public presentations, as kids (or fathers) might be present in the audience. So, as a preemptive strike, I present to you the Golden-headed Cisticola. The Australasian Figbird is a member of the Oriole family despite not being yellow. Female below.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 7, 2020
The first three sections are brief, presenting a summary of the bird’s current NYC status (migrant, resident, breeder, vagrant, etc.), Clearly, members of the birding community and their families–thanked in the opening Acknowledgments section–played a strong role in getting this project done. . And for good reason.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 7, 2022
Wrynecks are fascinating because they are woodpeckers, taxonomically and evolutionarily, yet they do not share many behaviors and anatomical features of most members of the Picidae family. But they are woodpeckers: the genus Jynx of the subfamily Jynginae of the Picidae family. They are beautiful, but in a different way.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 7, 2017
But, these numbers don’t adequately convey the work that went into this guide, which aims to “present the most up-to-date state of knowledge on the region’s birds for the first time as a whole in a single volume” (Introduction). Co-author Frank E. So, this is no ordinary bird guide. Where is the Indonesian Archipelago?
10,000 Birds
JULY 25, 2022
When I publicly present bird photos, I sometimes play the call of the bird and ask what they think it is. The Black-faced Monarch is a relative in the same bird family, the Monarchidae. It is certainly not true that writing a post about Australia and not mentioning flying foxes is illegal, but why take the risk?
10,000 Birds
JULY 3, 2018
The Prologue presents the two contrasting obsessions, a narrative that intrigues with promises of more details to come. Credits: Red-ruffed Fruitcrow, Brazil, by Francesco Veronesi, used under Creative Commons license; Spangled Cotinga by Mathias Appel, Flickr, public domain. The Feather Thief is divided into four parts.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 15, 2015
These strange birds are two species in their own family; White-necked or Yellow-headed, endemic to the Upper Guinea forests and Grey-necked or Red-headed, restricted to Lower Guinea forests. According to the World Bank, up to 80 percent of Ghana’s forests had been destroyed by illegal logging by 2008. million hectares in 2007.
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