10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 6, 2015
Here are some things I’ve learned from the Peterson Reference Guide to Owls of North America and the Caribbean by Scott Weidensaul: The Burrowing Owl is the only North American owl species where the male is larger than the female, albeit, only slightly larger. And the term is ‘non-reversed size dimorphism.’).
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 2, 2024
He has written and co-written over 400 scientific papers on brood parasitism, Common Cuckoos, egg rejection and other nesting behaviors, and fairy wren learning in addition to T he Book of Eggs: A Life-Size Guide to the Eggs of Six Hundred of the World’s Bird Species (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2014).
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10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 13, 2019
Owling on Christmas Bird Counts is a peculiar business. There’s the whole role of chance in owling, too. In birding, perhaps only the proverbial wild goose chase and snipe hunt rank below owling in terms of expected success. A pair of Great Horned Owls ( Bubo virginianus ) painted by John James Audubon for The Birds of America.
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. Ratites, Tinamous, and Fowl. Now we move on to the Neognathae , which also has two very deep branches that lead to all the other living species of birds. Erich Jarvis discuss key findings. ). Open Jarvis et al.’s
10,000 Birds
MARCH 13, 2011
Moved by an unseasonable bout of optimism, I went owl-chasing this weekend and actually encountered what has been a true nemesis bird for me: Northern Saw-whet Owl ! For Corey, this was a weekend without a single standout species but with many birds that were pretty darn neat. And isn’t that an inspiring thought?
10,000 Birds
APRIL 25, 2015
Props on the sweet Barred Owl call, too. “I Scientists investigate the DNA of Hawaii’s free-roaming fowl. What kind of miscreant kicks a Barn Owl in mid-flight? Help them rack up 4,000 species in 24 hours on eBird!). And last but not least, get your owl snark on. No, you didn’t. Now you have.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 15, 2012
This bird represented only the second documented record of this species in Florida. 2012 has certainly been a bumper year for me with an estimated year list of around 3,000 species after extensive travels to South Africa, Ethiopia, South Korea, Indonesia, the Russian Far East, United Kingdom, Peru, Guatemala and Panama.
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