10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2021

When the disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (or SARS-CoV-2) acquired the name COVID-19 (short for “coronavirus 2019”) last February, many birders couldn’t help but notice the coincidental similarity between that abbreviation and name of one of the most familiar of all passerine families – Corvidae.

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2017 Italy Argentina Massachusetts 254

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2024

This is the home of the Rusty-naped Pitta , admittedly one of the less glamorous of the family, particularly the subspecies found in Yunnan, but still a nice sight and still a pitta. No doubt, the Lesser NLT will be relieved not to be bossed around by its erstwhile bigger family member anymore.

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Burma India Birds Indonesia 206

10,000 Birds

MAY 24, 2020

Trogons and quetzals are an ancient, colorful bird family that occurs in forests and other wooded habitats from the American tropics to Africa to Southeast Asia. Bright and sociable, Green Jays are a joy to watch as they move around wooded habitats in tight family flocks in search of large insects, seed, and fruit.

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America Arizona North America Texas 264

10,000 Birds

JUNE 13, 2022

Honeyeaters are a large bird family (190 species) with a strong presence in Australia. Their name refers to their habit of eating nectar and pollen, though most of them also eat insects and/or fruit. The name Miner is not actually a reference to the mining of minerals or coal, which are of limited use to birds. ” (HBW).

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Australia Birds Feral Cats Kangaroos 201

10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2019

Belonging to the family “Sulidae” , which includes both the Boobies and Gannets, in 1760 the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson introduced the genus “Sula”. In most cases, it is thought to come from the Spanish word “Bobo” referring to stupid, or ignorant. What could be wrong with a Blue-footed Gannet? Well, no more!

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Iceland Family Birds Groups 124

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2017

Grey Jumper, Happy Family, Lousy Jack and Twelve Apostles are names that can refer to them. The early settlers in Australia referred to them as Apostlebirds due to the family group often appearing to be around twelve birds in reference to the apostles of Jesus Christ.

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Australia Groups Family Species 103

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The inner side of the front cover contains the visual Quick Reference with paintings of one representative of the family followed by the relevant page number. The next page contains an alphabetical Quick Reference. Sasol has largely retained the traditional ordering system, familiar to the majority of birders.

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Africa South Africa Swaziland Lesotho 264

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2021

The photographs are from VIREO, the ornithological image collection associated with the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, which licenses bird photographs to many guides and reference books. Using the icons to locate specific bird families takes a little getting used to, but if you do it often it works well as a finding tool.

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North America America Birds California Condor 279

10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2020

And, the One-page Index, a quick reference to locating major bird families, is placed in two locations–the front and the back of the book. Family groups are briefly introduced with descriptions of their shared characteristics. I don’t think I’ve ever seen this before! The text pages have a lively look.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 20, 2022

When buntings meet for a family reunion, I can imagine the Crested Bunting is the focal point of the attention – the one that got rich and popular compared to all the others. I am not sure whether the “loud” refers to the color (my favored interpretation) or not (more likely). The skull cap, I guess.

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China Birds Vietnam Asia 212

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Some other members of the shrike family were a bit less testosterone-driven at Nanhui – like this Bull-headed Shrike … … this rather attractive-looking Tiger Shrike … … or one of the many Brown Shrikes passing through Nanhui on migration. . It certainly does not refer to the status of Nanhui.

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Birds LACS France Japan 235

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The three swallows here are a tribute to the three main hills that dominate the land around this ancient city, as well as reference to the trio of native grapes of Verona that comprise this wine: Corvina, Rondinella, and Corvinone. The family-run Zenato estate was founded in 1960 lies near Lake Garda, just to the east of Verona.

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2016 Europe New York Africa 246

10,000 Birds

MARCH 29, 2013

Robins are one of those taxonomically confusing terms, like bunting or grosbeak or warbler, that are applied to groups of birds in different, often disparate, families. In the New World, the birds we call “robins” are deep-bellied, melodious-voiced, thrushes of the genus Turdus.

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Family Groups Birds 191

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 2, 2020

That is because we receive so many extra species from up north, which can double the number of potential species in many of our most important avian families: Ducks, Hummingbirds, Wood Warblers, New World Sparrows, Tyrant Flycatchers, and many others. I was tempted to insert a Sir Mixalot reference here, but will control myself.)

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Game Lions Africa Family 158

10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2022

Not bad given that the 5 families in the inner circle of the laughingthrush family have a combined number of about 68 species. Not very interestingly, the species name “squamatum” refers to the scaly appearance of the bird rather than the blue wings. This post shows some of them.

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San Diego Malaysia China Zoos 212

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2014

It’s relatively easy to classify birds into family groups based on physical characteristics. We view them as our enemies when they eat our crops and as an extension of our family when we see them at our feeders. Remarkably, there are 59 bird families that have very little cultural significance; these are listed in Appendix III.

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Birds Egypt Family Eagles 218

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 27, 2020

It seems to me that Lynx Edicions must know Vedran, too, and it was with him in mind that their authors, David W Winkler, Shawn M Billerman and Irby J Lovette, chose the “Bird Families of the World: A Guide to the Spectacular Diversity of Birds” as the full title of their new edition. Families perhaps? It weighs 3.7

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Family Birds South America Breeding 295

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Species formerly referred to as P. The Brown Accento r certainly ranks among the less attractive accentors, though of course, some species in this family set a rather high bar. The HBW delights with exciting information on systematics history: “Specific name sometimes erroneously spelt P.

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China Birds Austria ALA 253

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Birkhead focuses on those stories that both illustrate each chapter’s theme and clearly have meaning to him, and though the Birds and Us of the title primarily refers to how we, humans, observe and value birds, there are forays into birds and art, literature, medicine, food, religion, and biography.

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Dissection Birds Research Europe 226

10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2012

This question usually comes from people living in urban areas and in reference to Ruby-throated Hummingbirds (that’s a male in the above photo). ” I used to say they were the Murphy Brown of the bird world, but my husband advises me against using such a dated reference.

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Raised ALA Family Cats 253

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2021

Where a birder goes in the Caribbean determines which birds are seen including toy-like todies, Carib hummingbirds, cool pigeons, quail-doves, unique avian families and outrageous woodpeckers. In birding circles, we refer to the northern and eastern part of Costa Rica as the Caribbean Slope.

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Costa Rica Puerto Rico Birds Owls 264

10,000 Birds

APRIL 30, 2017

The figures show the order of bird families in the four field guides mentioned above. For easier reference, I have given the order of families in the oldest field guide (on the left) a spectral colour pattern and used the same colour for the respective families in the other guides. Order of bird families, non-songbirds.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 11, 2023

Rolando told me this tree was commonly referred to, by the locals, as the Palo de Gringo , or the Gringo Tree. And who wouldn’t want to see a member of the toucan family? The jungle was surprisingly colorful, and it seemed I had already seen many of these flowers and plants, in more artificial settings.

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Mexico Woodpeckers South America Species 172

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2013

This group — dubbed the bombycillids , from the waxwing genus and family name — appears to fall near kinglets and a large group containing thrushes and muscicapids (Old World flycatchers and chats) in the passerine tree. Spellman et al. Cedar Waxwings are pictured above in a lovely image by Minette Layne.). Spellman et al.

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Saudi Arabia 2008 Indonesia Groups 220

10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2015

Since we’ve covered some generalities already, once a month I’ll be exploring how a species, genus, or family of birds got its name, and how those names fit in with our larger understanding of, and relationship with, birds. At the request of blog management, I’m embarking on a series of posts on the names of birds.

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Falcons Eagles Meat Geese 260

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Lees and Gilroy delineate vagrancy status and trends for every bird family worldwide, highlighting examples, synthesizing research, and framing it all with their own thoughts and conclusions. It’s a unique title; twitchers and naturalists interested in migration will find it fascinating reading and valuable for future reference.

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Sri Lanka Malaysia Birds Suriname 233

10,000 Birds

JUNE 29, 2019

Does anybody know which part of the Great Blue Heron, Ardea herodias is referred to that entitles it to use the colour blue in its name? Perhaps Occasionally White Heron Ardea cinerinoncaeruleumalbanuncenimfiunc might be more appropriate?* Well, no more!

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Family Birds Species Rights 121

10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2015

Karlson and Dale Rosselet in Birding by Impression: A Different Approach to Knowing and Identifying Birds, the latest addition to the Peterson Reference Guide series and a book likely to revive the continuing discussion about the merits of GISS (the term used in the book, as opposed to the popular jizz ) versus traditional bird identification.

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Birds New Jersey Science Groups 171

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. The text itself refers to the plates in all the appropriate places. 70) is adorable as well as educational.

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Science Albatross Research Birds 221

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 18, 2013

What a nice, close knit family! References: 1 Birds of North America Online. Two articles report more than 150 individuals roosting in one tree 1. They sure are cute when you see a group of them fluttering around. This is a video of someone hand feeding these energetic little birds. Birds nuthatches Pygmy Nuthatch West Coast'

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North America America California Collecting 165

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 10, 2016

Shrikes by the numbers: The family Laniidae is composed of 31 species of shrike, around the globe. Each nesting pair will have 4-8 eggs, and there is some reference to location being a factor on that quantity. The Loggerhead Shrike is 9 inches over all, and the largest of the shrike family is 20 inches.

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Butcher Birds North America Mexico 117

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Which is why I am so excited about the publication of the Peterson Reference Guide to Seawatching: Eastern Waterbirds in Flight , by Ken Behrens and Cameron Cox, the latest title of the Peterson Reference Guides series published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. The book is fairly large (10.4

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Ducks Groups Species North America 236

10,000 Birds

MAY 6, 2016

Once you eliminate the risque jokes (I know, I know, but it’s a family blog) the Northern Beardless-Tyrannulet might have the most comical name in American birding. The tyrant flycatchers, in turn, derive their name from the first member of the family to land a Latin name, the Eastern Kingbird.

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Costa Rica 2014 Family Collecting 103

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 11, 2018

They are all recognisable from their families in Africa and are simply referred to by prefixing with “Seychelles” With most species being the only representative of their family, it made identification easy.

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Seychelles Madagascar Africa Zebras 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

And the references I use! My desk is littered with general field guides, guides to specific families, books about bird behavior, and books about status and distribution of birds in New York while my browser is always opened to eBird and xeno-canto.

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New York New Jersey Colorado Pennsylvania 203

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2015

I’m happy to say that Laura Erickson and Marie Read have written a book, Into the Nest: Intimate Views of the Courting, Parenting, and Family Lives of Familiar Birds , that is not too cute and that does not anthropomorphize. Part Two: The Family Live of Selected Species” describes and illustrates the family lives of 49 species in 25 chapters.

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Eggs Family 2006 New York 263

10,000 Birds

MARCH 26, 2011

The Crossley ID Guide: Eastern Birds is undoubtedly the most innovative avian reference guide to come along in many years. Specialized guides rarely seem to capture the imagination as effectively as the more holistic references. Future field guides have much room to grow in guides focuses on families of birds.

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Sparrows Birds America North America 163