10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

The chapter on “Capturing Bird Behavior” (my favorite) gives detailed examples of behavior cues and sound cues to look and listen for in anticipation of interesting preening, courtship, and family behavior. Also, settings information is fully integrated into the later chapters.

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Birds Ethics 2019 Experience 192

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2020

In contrast, the sections on migration, which encompass phenomena such as fallout and blow-back drift migrants, and which also offer brief anecdotes about unusual observations or observations under unusual conditions, are highly informative, even fun reading. This is a project that clearly spanned decades. 231st Street is now located. .

New York City 150

New York City New York Birds Breeding 150

10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2011

Astounding because she picked up birding before she could speak and surprising because this ability was definitely not inherited from anyone in my family, myself included. I’ve also included a few resources for those of you that might be inclined to invest in birding resources for your kids. GAMES AND APPS.

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Birds Game Wildlife Family 278

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2020

Species Accounts are smartly designed, utilizing font color and size to organize information and help the user quickly find it. Jon Fjeldså’s contributions include many of the ducks, yellow-finches, and many other families where his images of Birds of the High Andes could be used. Van Remsen, Jr.

Bolivia 173

Bolivia Birds Brazil Switzerland 173

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2019

Peterson Reference Guide to Sparrows of North America covers 61 species of the New World sparrow family Passerellidae that breed in Canada, the United States, and northern Mexico. The book does not include House Sparrow, an Old World sparrow that belongs to a completely different bird family. Scope of Book.

North America 148

North America Sparrows America United States 148

10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2021

The guide has been expertly, even lovingly revised, expanded and updated (as the authors’ names indicate, this is largely a family affair). The text is very readable here and throughout the book, with bolded, italicized, and capitalized terms helping the eye find the required information. McKnight and Vera B. Useful Features.

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North America America Species 2018 257

10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2013

Not only has this live camera feed provided a wonderful educational resource for science teachers across the country, but it has also shed light on some very interesting behaviors of these owls. They have recently lost the last of their juvenile fluff and it looks like they may be getting down to the serious business of raising a family!

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Owls Florida Raised Coyotes 236

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Each family group starts with a description of what traits are common to the species within the family, its representation in Northern Central America, and other interesting, relevant facts. A lot of information can be packed into a paragraph. Fagan is a professional bird guide with Field Guides, Inc.,

El Salvador 232

El Salvador America Costa Rica Honduras 232

4 The Love Of Animals

MAY 30, 2011

What you need to know about fostering pets: Time and resources – A person or family must have the time, room and resources to dedicate to a foster pet in order for it to be a positive experience for all parties involved. They may or may not be accustomed to cages or other animals.

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Adoptable Pets Shelters Medical 100

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Back in the day, information about this bird would have been conveyed by phone trees and cumbersome Rare Bird Alert phone message systems, many of which were only updated once a week. Texting and the internet allows information to spread very, very quickly. Birding birding resources I Am Birder splitting technology'

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San Diego California Condor California Bald Eagle 170

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2019

Clearly, author Phyllis Limbacher Tildes, the author of 24, soon to be 25, children’s books, is also a birder (and a little research brings up a presentation she gave at Ogeechee Audubon, Georgia with the biographical information and she and her family “love watching birds and wildlife seen near their lagoon on Skidaway Island.”

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New York City Pelicans Birds New York 149

Animal Person

DECEMBER 7, 2009

One of the reasons I do this is to see what others are saying about veganism (both good and bad), vegan food, their vegan friends and family members, and of course, about going vegan (I've already seen a handful of #in2010 references to going vegan). I'll be using his inspirational story as an example for my own friends and family.

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Vegan Vegetarian Ethics Family 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2012

The very first multi-media resource for leaning birds were birds. Among the Efe (Pygmy) people that I lived with in the 1980s, the young men would in fact disappear from the bosom of their families and spend a lot of time, perhaps months, living on their own in the forest. They are not all created equal. It all depends on the dogs.

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Birds Collecting Rodents Wounded 169

10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2019

But, it’s more than that, because each essay also includes “a big idea, a method or technique or resource, about bird study in our age” (p. The Checklist is more than a taxonomic listing of species and chapter number and title; it also contains useful notes on each bird family. And, each essay tells a story.

Birds 115

Birds North America Breeding America 115

10,000 Birds

JULY 1, 2014

Roth; the informative, graceful text is by Susan L. These features are unobtrusive enough that the book can be read without the educational add-ons, but informative enough to provide easily accessible background to the child who wants to know more. Roth and Cindy Trumbore. This is the second nonfiction book by Susan L.

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Puerto Rico Parrots New York City 2013 234

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Feeding birds is generally regarded as a harmless past-time, a wholesome way for people to share nature and enjoy wildlife with the family. Sometimes people find themselves the victims of ill-informed home owners associations that have a phobic view of wildlife. She added more corn.

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Bald Eagle Birds Deer Minnesota 245

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

It is a lovely, well-packaged, informative guide, created with thought and creativity. Each species account starts with names–family name at the top of the page, followed below by English name of the species, alpha code, scientific name, local name in Cuba and the standard name as accepted by the Sociedad Española de Ornitología (SEO).

Cuba 231

Cuba Birds United States 2000 231

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 2, 2014

Not a great place for a family vacation, though I think Duncan will disagree. Press, 2000) and the earlier The Birds of Hong Kong and South China (co-authored with Clive Viney and Lam Chiu Ying, Hong Kong Information Office, 2005). Species Accounts are grouped by family, following what appears to be Sibley and Monroe’s 1996 taxonomy.

Brunei 175

Brunei Birds Asia China 175

4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 24, 2011

The humanitarian needs remain overwhelming but given the important role that companion animals play in the Japanese family and the important role that livestock plays in the Japanese economy, it’s important that we address the issues immediately,” said IFAW’s Disaster Manager Dr. Dick Green. For more information, visit www.ifaw.org.

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IFAW Japan International Fund For Animal Welfare Livestock 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2011

These Blasts From The Past There’s an Ivory Gull in Massachusetts… David Sibley on the Jones Beach Shrike Bicknell’s Thrush I’ve Just Been Informed From Pavement to Gravel About the Author Mike Mike is a leading authority in the field of standardized test preparation, but what he really aspires to be is a naturalist.

2011 140

2011 Deer New York Texas 140

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2017

The Species Accounts tell us the birds’ stories, and a lot of information is packed into these paragraphs: appearance; age and gender differences in appearance; how the species differs from similar birds; interesting behavior or nesting notes; whether it is common or uncommon or rare; migratory or resident, breeding or nonbreeding in Kruger N.P.;

Ecuador 172

Ecuador Wildlife Reptiles Birds 172

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 6, 2015

Species Accounts in both titles are arranged loosely in ABA Checklist order, with some flipping around of order within each family. There is a lot of attention given to where and when the bird can be found within the state, specific locations sometimes given, supplementing the birding hotspot information offered in the Introduction.

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Colorado Florida Birds New Jersey 236

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2017

The guide presents 69 species and 1 subspecies, from “NEW WORLD VULTURES: Cathartiformes” to “OSPREY: Pandioninae” to “FAMILY: Accipitridae” (Kites, Hawks, Eagles, Hawk-Eagles), to “FALONIDS: Falconidae” (Falcons, Forest-Falcons, Caracaras, Kestrels, Merlin). That’s a lot of visual information!

Mexico 163

Mexico America North America Falcons 163

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

The conservation need is urgent: great attention has rightly been paid to Brazil’s Amazonian rainforest but not enough resources have gone to the Pantanal and the Cerrado, of which only 4% and 5%, respectively, are protected. Each family of birds has a short introductory paragraph and most genera get a sentence or two of description.

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Brazil Wildlife 2011 Birds 202

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2013

And, in a very lovely section in the middle of the book, she describes the life cycle of the cahow, informing evocative passages about their nocturnal courtship and flight with recent research findings about how seabirds are able to function—eat, sleep, navigate home. This is a good read, informative and engaging.

Birds 167

Birds Rats Breeding 2012 167

10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2018

An array of tools ranging from geolocators to satellite trackers to depth measurers to miniature cameras have been employed by ornithologists and biologists over the past twenty years, yielding scads of information. Instead, the studies Brooke summarizes and other resources are listed in an extensive Notes section. Who is it for?

Albatross 114

Albatross Penguins Research Breeding 114

10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2011

The results will inform a vision document to be adopted in July 2011 at a national conference to guide the NWR system for wildlife protection into the next decade and beyond. Besides founding 10,000 Birds and I and the Bird , Mike has also created a number of other entertaining sites and resources, particularly the Nature Blog Network.

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2011 Wildlife Birds Deer 140

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2015

But, not a lot of information about how this national passion (52.8 I also enjoyed reading the company histories of familiar brands like Duncraft, Kaytee, Droll Yankee, and Wagner all of which started as family companies, some as offshoots of other businesses, some as the result of clever inventions. million people in the U.S.

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America Industry Squirrels Birds 230

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2020

It’s the bird family that most people don’t know is a bird family. For many years it was thought the two bird families were related taxonomically. Like Antpittas and Gnateaters by Harold F. Introduction. Images of typical display poses are included for many of the birds of paradise.

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Guinea Birds Papua New Guinea Family 263

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

The species are taxonomically divided into two families: Tytonidae, Barn-Owls, and Strigidae, Owls, encompassed in one order, Strigiformes. There is good reason for the interviews, beyond simply amassing information, and this becomes clear in the final chapter, the Afterward, about conservation. It’s a lot of work.

Owls 211

Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 211

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

As you can easily judge from the dullness of this information, it is not something I made up but rather an appalling example of nepotism in the naming of birds. In providing this information, they quote extensively from an ornithology book that was published 3 years before I was born (and I am not a young man).

China 228

China Birds Pythons Eagles 228

10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2020

The researchers divided the city’s land area into seven categories: (1) open space for conservation ( e.g., forest preserves), (2) open space for recreation, (3) other open spaces ( e.g. , trails/greenways and cemeteries), (4) water, (5) single family residential, (6) multifamily residential, (7) roads, and (8) all others.

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Chicago Research Illinois Michigan 271

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

And one that is easy to use, because, let’s face it, you want to spend most of your time looking at wildlife, not searching for information. There is also a narrative write-up for each species that recounts interesting behavior, family issues, unique biological facts, the animal’s status in Kruger, and notable conservation issues.

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Rhinos Mammals Animal White Rhinos 240

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2020

” I was surprised there isn’t a Resources section of websites and field guides; hopefully this will be added if they do a new addition. It’s an excellent resource for family and child-learning adventures. But, again, there is no reference to additional resources like field guides.

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Los Angeles 2019 Birds 2014 264

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Within families, the species are arranged less taxonomically and more in line with “design and space considerations,” (Introduction), and on the plates themselves, species are arranged to facilitate comparison. Readers are referred to articles from the bibliography for more information. And, they are simply beautiful.

America 213

America El Salvador Costa Rica Honduras 213

10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2022

If you want to get some irrelevant information on hornbills, please read my previous post on them. For some reason, the largest member of the heron family is not called the Great Heron nor the Giant Heron but rather the Goliath Heron. A Barn Owl slept peacefully on the inside of the roof of a well-visited tourist cafe.

Birds 147

Birds Africa Eagles Barn Owls 147

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2022

I very much enjoy using the Species Accounts; they are a model of informational economy, communicating a lot of information quickly and easily through graphics and design, photographs and minimal text. I got all that information from six tiny icons. The goal here is to give the information the birder needs, no frills.

United States 215

United States North America Species 2013 215