10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

One exception is Magdalena Heinroth, a German ornithologist who, with her husband Oscar, raised and studied thousands of birds in her apartment in pre-World War II Berlin. The 32-page insert of color plates presents 63 images of paintings, book plates, mosaics, photographs, and a map, culled from Wikipedia Commons and other sources.

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MAY 22, 2013

The Mission of the National Wildlife Refuge System is to administer a national network of lands and waters for the conservation, management, and where appropriate, restoration of the fish, wildlife, and plant resources and their habitats within the United States for the benefit of present and future generations of Americans 1.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 12, 2022

I do not (yet) have any accessibility issues, and my only experience regarding anything akin to accessibility has been limited to the period when my daughter was in a stroller, which presents only a tiny sliver of the challenges faced by many. Some access issues are addressed by federal law. 2 miles) from the visitor center to the bus stop.

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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. Thankfully there are several really excellent family board games that you can play as a whole family. Her natural talent was astounding and surprising.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2011

Of course, I’m speaking of the mysterious Wood Stork , Mycteria americana , the only representative of that famous family to regularly occur north of the Mexican border and present in large numbers along the northern coast of South Carolina, where I found myself a couple weekends back.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 23, 2017

It was also nice to see a Magnificent Frigatebird soar overhead and it really paid keeping our eyes to the skies as later in the morning when Mike spotted another frigatebird and we raised our bins to watch it he also spotted a Caribbean Martin up there which ended up being our only one of the trip.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2011

Baicich, one of our most passionate proponents of American birding conservation — misguided though he is on the topic of the Duck Stamp — has identified the Bold Ideas presented on the Conserving the Future site that deal specifically with birds and birding issues. • Explore These Related Posts Greenough – Green Enough.Or

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2014

2014), presents an authoritative framework for our understanding of and future work on bird phylogeny. ’s bird family tree in a new tab and follow along as you read. American Flamingo photo by Dick Culbert). One of the central papers, Whole-genome analyses resolve early branches in the tree of life of modern birds (Jarvis et al.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2014

I mentioned last week t hat the large Pied Oystercatcher family that had successfully raised three chicks this year for the first time may soon become a smaller family group. They were wandering further apart and I knew that it would not be long before the family group became smaller. Juvenile Pied Oystercatcher feeding.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2020

This was a pleasant surprise if only because I’m so used to the more technical views presented in his field guides. Also, I wish I could use the tiny birds for my own presentations. They portray the nesting cycles of Mallard, Red-tailed Hawk, and American Robin, illustrating the various ways in which birds create families.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 26, 2021

As Watson has put it in the Chapter 1, “while the focus of this book is on families of African birds, there are a few individual species that have somehow come to epitomise Africa, even though they have relatives elsewhere, and commentaries on these appear too. He has authored several other books and many articles, largely on natural history.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 23, 2023

There are several Swamp Harriers that upset the birds and then you do find there are more species present than are initially visible. Swamp Harrier There are still a lot of fish present, especially in the culverts that run under the highway and the Egrets and Herons continue to take advantage of the ample food.

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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. I’m wondering if the subject of this book itself presented a challenge. It sounds like fun, but I can’t find it anywhere. This is a great summer read.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 9, 2011

There are currently 10 species of Treecreepers that form the family Certhiidae, nine in the genus Certhia and an additional oddball in another genus, Salpornis. David Sibley (yeah, the one ) recently raised the question visiting birders (particularly from Germany, not so much from the UK – I am told!) I’ll explain.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 29, 2019

Tom, really raising the discourse of the blog, decided that we need to rename boobies. Carrie came up with a genius way to both rename pretty much everything and raise money for conservation. Joshua, another guest writer, gave us a dialogue about a particularly poorly-named woodpecker. Kai tackled color issues with bird names in China.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

I tried to get a better idea of what exactly the definition of cuckoo-dove is but am still not very clear about it – Wikipedia only offers the rather formal definition “any of several species of bird in the genera Macropygia , Reinwardtoena, and Turacoena of the pigeon family.” But I may well be wrong.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

Eventually, I found the lone whooping crane present at the refuge by its call. Letters from Eden (Houghton Mifflin, 2006) will soon be followed by a memoir about the birds she has raised, healed, studied and followed throughout her life. I knew I’d never heard that before. Nobody needs to eat them. Thank you for your efforts.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Birders have a natural tendency to appreciate variety in form, from the bewildering range of colors displayed within a single avian family, to minute distinctions between otherwise similar birds wholly inscrutable to the untrained eye (or even to those of many birders!). Birders are generally happy when this happens.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Dunne and Karlson are presenting an alternative system of gull identification, one that they believe is simpler than the traditional emphasis on cycles and plumages. But, I think the birding world is big enough to accommodate more than one way to identify the members of this infamous family.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2017

The excellent Introduction gives background on how birds produce sound, how sounds are presented visually, how to “read” a spectrogram, the naming of bird sounds, and the biology of bird sounds, and how bird sounds are recorded and spectrograms created. Species Accounts are arranged taxonomically, grouped by family.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

White-necked Herons and White-faced Herons were present and there was also a family of Black-necked Storks. The advantage of early starts is that you raise the odds of seeing Australian Bustards and Brown Quail! There were at least four Dollarbirds swooping down across the water and numerous Rainbow Bee-eaters.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Also present are the large Red Wattlebird. Also common is the White-browed Scrubwren , a member of the Australasian warbler family. It reaches the edge of its range at Sydney, but I have seen it in this park a few times, including youngsters being raised by currawongs. This noisy species is often heard throughout the park.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Between staying warm/cool, finding food, avoiding predators, migrating thousands of miles every year, finding mates, raising chicks and doing all this at the mercy of the elements, it makes sense that they have more brainpower than just simple instinct to run on. Picture being a Blackpoll Warbler being born in the boreal forests of Alaska.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 29, 2013

It is a little tradition we started when we were not both working on Christmas Day and a great way to pass the day when you don’t have family in the same state or time zone! There were Pacific Black Ducks, Grey Teal and Hard Heads present and Eurasian Coot swam among them. Pink-eared Ducks and Grey Teal.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2011

Itcher birds, migratory members of the tern family. What I’d like to do, however, is to present one single question related to migration, which in turn will spawn (or, rather, hatch) myriad other questions ranging from trivially easy to impossible to answer. Another question this raises has to do with migration itself.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Because of the ongoing public health situation around the world, travel and large family gatherings are out of the question over much of the country, which means dialing down the gluttonous feasting for which the day is famous.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

It covers 434 species across 9 orders and 18 families of birds. Other families are more complicated and these introductory sections are correspondingly longer and amazingly more detailed. SCOPE & SPECIES ORGANIZATION. Seabirds: The New Identification Guide is an identification guide to seabirds of the world, all of them.

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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. Although the larger, edible birds are all but gone from most of Ghana’s forests, as mentioned, the birding was superb.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 3, 2013

Digital technology allows us to present high-quality photographic images together, in one plate, presenting valuable information on birds’ appearance, habitat, and behavior. I miss the vast landscapes of the plates from the Raptors guide, which often presented spacious, two-page layouts.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 23, 2006

But the wrongness and vileness of factory farming does not show that eating meat is morally wrong, because it is theoretically possible to raise animals outdoors in idyllic settings, to give them wonderful, enjoyable, rich lives, and then after 6 months to a year of such blissful existence, to kill them entirely painlessly.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2015

Science and Conservation , the second section, presents two-page summaries of the diverse research being done around the world about penguins. Raised in the Galapagos, she’s been exposed to penguins her whole life. The text is of a whole with the photographs, which are simply magnificent in content and presentation.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

This outstanding member of the wattlebird family is unique among songbirds in having different shaped beaks for each of the sexes. We’ll also keep our eyes open for several members of the New Zealand wren family. Our tour of the islands even present chances to resolve longstanding mysteries. Laughing Owl.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Bottles of adult beverages can make nice presents, as well, to take to a festive yuletide party or New Years’ Eve bash. Wenfei Tong’s Bird Love: The Family Life of Birds addresses such topics as courtship, mating systems, raising chicks, sex role reversals, and others.

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