10,000 Birds

JULY 1, 2014

In the lower right-hand corner we see the partial figure of a bespectacled hiker. This plate is right at the center of the book. Roth depicts a brown, tail-banded, evil-eyed hawk with an open-eyed parrot held upside-down, wings spread, in its claws). In 1967 only 24 parrots were living in El Yunque.

Puerto Rico 243

Puerto Rico Parrots New York City 2013 243

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2012

There’s Hawk Mountain, Pennsylvania, of course, and that little known Cape May place in New Jersey, not to mention others like Fort Smallwood in Maryland and even Fort Tilden in Queens, New York, which gets some press on the occasions that Corey swings by. And Caeaser’s Head is definitely good.

South Carolina 164

South Carolina Maryland North Carolina New Jersey 164

10,000 Birds

MAY 6, 2014

Wright and Small offer additional material, illustrating anatomical parts, like wing stripe, tail band, and rump, that are used in the species accounts. The Introduction is where you see that this really is a book about New Jersey. In fact, any birder planning to bird New Jersey will benefit from using this book.

New Jersey 253

New Jersey Birds 2014 Species 253