10,000 Birds
JUNE 21, 2019
Whether their authors are scrutinizing this pink wine’s recent rise as a millennial obsession in clickbait lifestyle pieces, lamenting its fate as the perennial victim of wine snob invective, or endeavoring to discredit the many myths that surround this underappreciated style, come June, it’s rosés, rosés, all the way.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 3, 2019
It would be uber cool to lay eyes on a rare lifer, on species that only seem to live on the pages of a field guide but isn’t that somewhat discriminatory? And why spend time only looking for one or two species when those hours could be used to put binos focused on a few dozen? Aren’t all birds worth watching?
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 16, 2013
The family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers, are found only in the New World. But surprisingly, this niche is not frequently filled by the birds Eurasian birders call flycatchers, which are those more chat-ish species in the family Muscicapidae. Even more, the large head and broad based beak are the same.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 21, 2012
While New Zealand is famous for its endemic oddities, once upon a time New Zealand also had many birds from groups and families that are no longer found here. There were once two species of goose, a merganser, and a pair of raven species. Right from the beginning the species was something of a mystery. And eagles.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 29, 2013
This is very bad news for a group that is largely nocturnal and has adapted to a secretive lifestyle, and is thus best detected by its tracks and signs. Those were amongst the most annoying field guides to use on the “continent” as so many potentially confusing species were left out. Next are the tracks of birds.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 20, 2014
processed the entire genomes of 48 bird species and compared nearly 42 million base pairs of DNA (Hackett et al. ’s bird family tree in a new tab and follow along as you read. Now we move on to the Neognathae , which also has two very deep branches that lead to all the other living species of birds. Open Jarvis et al.’s
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 4, 2014
As an independent illustrator, he regularly contributed art to Ford Times , a “lifestyle” magazine published by the Ford Motor Company. So, the Eastern Kingbird ”is one of the Tyrant Flycatchers, Tyrannidae –America’s largest bird family–365 different species.” The chapter also gives hope.
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