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10,000 Birds
JUNE 1, 2021
And now we have the third iteration in Audubon’s guide book history: National Audubon Society Birds of North America. The National Audubon Society Birds of North America covers all species seen in mainland United States, Canada and Baja California. Rare Birds of North America. I didn’t.).
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 6, 2020
And why I am so happy to see new, updated editions of Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America being published. In May, I reviewed Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America, Second Edition. The beautiful photographs, used to separate sections and on the inside cover page, are by Brian E. UPDATES & CHANGES.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 2, 2021
Peterson Field Guide to Mushrooms of North America, Second Edition by Karl B. McKnight is not totally new, it’s a revision of A Field Guide to Mushrooms: North America (Peterson Field Guides) b y Kent H. Peterson Field Guide to Mushrooms of North America, Second Edition. McKnight, Joseph R. Conclusion.
10,000 Birds
MAY 5, 2020
The April arrival of the Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America, Second Edition was a supremely happy moment in a very difficult, sad month. A companion regional guide, Peterson Field Guide to Birds of Western North America was published in 1941; its fifth edition will be coming out in early September.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 2, 2019
So, I was very excited when I heard that Rick Wright was writing a book about sparrows, the first treatment of North American sparrows since 2001, possibly the first book about sparrows of North America, depending on your definition of that geographic area. They’re all birds of North America! Mexico border.
10,000 Birds
MAY 17, 2016
I want to alert you to a recent study (from April) that looks at the plight of bird populations under conditions of climate change in Europe and North America. Data were collected from the North American Breeding Bird Survey and the Pan-European Common Birds Monitoring Scheme. Why are Europe and North America different?
10,000 Birds
MARCH 4, 2014
Where did the Coney Island Gray-hooded Gull come from, Africa or South America? I kept wishing I had Rare Birds of North America , by Steve N. I had just started reading it, but I knew that this was the book my birding friends, in fact all North American birders who are fascinated by vagrants, have been waiting for.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 5, 2016
It has also been published in Great Britain by Bloomsbury Publishing under the title Wildfowl of Europe, Asian, and North America , which explains why the English translation has British spelling conventions. Waterfowl of North America, Europe, and Asia: An Identification Guide is a serious book for serious birders.
10,000 Birds
MAY 1, 2018
You can blame the nice people at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, who took it upon themselves to send me a review copy of the Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Southeastern North America by Seabrooke Leckie and David Beadle. Moth plates from Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Southeastern North America. Let that sink in.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 29, 2018
Maybe it’s because the American Coot ( Fulica americana ) is the most abundant and widely distributed species of rail in North America that it gets no respect? The post The American Coot – One of the Least Appreciated Birds in North America appeared first on 10,000 Birds.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 7, 2014
The second edition of the National Geographic Complete Birds of North America, 2nd Edition has one of the longest book names in bird bookdom: National Geographic Complete Birds of North America, 2nd Edition: Now Covering More Than 1,000 Species With the Most-Detailed Information Found in a Single Volume.
10,000 Birds
JULY 22, 2014
But they don’t live in North America. I find it astonishing that people argue of whether feral cats are bad for birds in North America. In North America, you’ve got Bears at the large end, Cats in the middle, and at the smaller end, the Mustilids. Unless we put them there. Have you ever seen the Dryfus Lion?
10,000 Birds
MARCH 4, 2016
As the subtitle implies, this appreciation drives the bulk of A Chorus of Cranes: The Cranes of North America and the World. A Chorus of Cranes: The Cranes of North America and the World by Paul A. That issue aside, this is a book well worth seeking out. Johnsgard and Thomas D. Mangelsen, $29.95.
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
JUNE 6, 2017
The Peterson Field Guide to Bird Sounds of Eastern North America by Nathan Pieplow is innovative, fascinating, and challenging. The Peterson Field Guide to Bird Sounds of Eastern North America is divided into three main sections: Introduction, Species Accounts, and Index to Bird Sounds (also called the Visual Index).
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 27, 2012
Another migration tracker that seems to hold great potential for those able to master it is the Find The Data North America Bird Migration page. Find The Data parses information from the North American Bird Phenology Program and other sources to provide a sortable list of species by State, Town, and Month First Arrived.
10,000 Birds
JULY 18, 2012
Now the only falcon that regularly nests in natural cavities is the smallest and most common falcon in North America, the American Kestrel ( Falco sparverius ). The majority of our owls in North America also nest in cavities and I want to wrap this up with a few of my favorites, starting with the Barn Owl ( Tyto alba ).
10,000 Birds
MARCH 1, 2012
Photographic guides are opinion splitters, some birders love images others are completely turned off by them, yearning for the art and craft of the traditional field guide. There are good photographic guides and a great many bad ones.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 28, 2017
The latest from his pen is Birds of Prey , a hybrid between an identification guide and an essay collection, a book of lore that provides a comprehensive overview of the raptors of North America. Birds of Prey: Hawks, Eagles, Falcons, and Vultures of North America by Pete Dunne with Kevin T. Fish and Wildlife Service.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 1, 2012
Howell continues his tradition of giving clarity to what most birders find intimidating with Petrels, Albatrosses & Storm-Petrels of North America: A Photographic Guide , just published by Princeton University Press. This is the first field identification guide on tubenoses in North America. Should you buy this book?
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 30, 2015
When it comes to individual North American species, the old reliable trick of naming them after physical traits is in full effect. Well, I never did see a Black-backed Woodpecker on my trip, but they were on my mind… What could be more straightforward than the naming of woodpeckers? Here are birds that peck at wood.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 21, 2021
The Cinnamon-rumped Flowerpiercer is the only flower-piercing game in town if you live in North America. And yes, Mexico is part of North America, not Central or South America.) Its range extends as far as Nicaragua in Central America, where it is joined, in Costa Rica and Panama, by The Slaty Flowerpiercer.
10,000 Birds
MAY 24, 2020
North America is home to many amazing bird species, including several which require a special effort to see and appreciate. In the summer, they are the highest altitude breeding songbird in North America. So let’s look at this sampler, shall we?
10,000 Birds
MARCH 25, 2011
Fortunately for you, though, when I got home I found a review copy of National Geographic Backyard Guide to the Birds of North America by Jonathan Alderfer and Paul Hess ready and waiting to be dissected for your delectation. The target audience of this book is not the jet-setting hardcore birder, or even the dedicated local lister.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 5, 2021
Dragonflies and Damselflies of Costa Rica: A Field Guide by Dennis Paulson and William Haber fills a large gap in the field guide coverage of Costa Rica and continues the high level of excellence set by Paulson’s previous guides to dragonflies and damselflies of eastern and western North America.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 3, 2021
” And then I found out that bird song doesn’t just belong to the males, that there are female birds who sing too, only not so much in North America, and my mind was blown.**. They’re just like us–they talk with their hands (er, wings) and their feet and some are even crafty!” And, that’s it.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 25, 2022
Oystercatchers are unquestionably cool birds, and, even in North America, a rare treat. Fortunately, I have no such doubts regarding my second lifer, the Common Ringed Plover. My first two Eurasian Oystercatchers were an unexpected delight.
10,000 Birds
MAY 2, 2017
This time the tome that three lucky readers will receive is Birds of Prey: Hawks, Eagles, Falcons, and Vultures of North America by Pete Dunne. The first and easiest way to win a copy of Birds of Prey: Hawks, Eagles, Falcons, and Vultures of North America is to subscribe to the 10,000 Birds email mailing list.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 31, 2014
The Northern Flicker ( Colaptes auratus ) is the third largest woodpecker in North America if you count the Ivory-billed Woodpecker. Intergrades of these two subspecies occur, according to the Peterson Field Guide to North America, where their ranges overlap, at the western edge of the plains.
10,000 Birds
MAY 25, 2022
Towhees are large, ground-hugging sparrows that occur only in North America. They belong to either the Pipilo or Melozone genera, or perhaps both, as their taxonomy is still a point of contention. Just to complicate things more, four members of the Melozone genus are called Ground-Sparrows rather than Towhees.).
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 8, 2021
After all, it could be years before some of them come back again.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 19, 2016
Why, I asked myself, did the loons come to be called loons in the English-speaking regions of North America when they were already known by the much more practical term divers back in the colonists’ mother country? Long ago, before I became the bird-name rancoteur I am today, I had an idle question.
10,000 Birds
MAY 27, 2021
By the time the Terra ships we expect the automated ID to work very well in North America and Northern Mexico, and we will expand it throughout the Americas, the UK and Europe, and then across the globe.” ” Wow, right? But also, what’s that about a Kickstarter?
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 28, 2015
Although it was formerly abundant and geographically widespread, Trumpeter Swan numbers and distribution were greatly reduced during the early fur trade and European settlement of North America (1600’s to 1800’s), when it was prized for its skins and primary feathers 1. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kq1bx7Ic2FY. v=kq1bx7Ic2FY.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 25, 2015
Importantly, the paper offers support for the hypothesis that the ancestor of the entire clade came to North America by way of Beringia — the land bridge between Siberia and Alaska exposed at various times through Earth’s history.
4 The Love Of Animals
MARCH 30, 2012
There are fewer than 40 aardvarks in zoos in North America. The baby will join mom “Izzy” and dad “Friz” in the upcoming weeks and will be an Animal Ambassador for the park, along with its older brother “Zawadi,” who will be a year old on April 10. They are solitary by nature, and aardvark births are not common.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 5, 2019
Despite their foreign origin, introduced gamebirds in North America seem to enjoy a better reputation among birders than other nonnative birds. And because of the resemblance they bear to their New World cousins in the family Phasianidae , they even look the part of an “authentic” wild bird in North America.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 21, 2013
elegans ) are the largest rails in the Americas. Their taxonomic status long has been unclear due to their overall similarity and the fact that in eastern North America and Cuba, they hybridize. King Rails occur widely in eastern North America, in eastern and central Mexico, and in Cuba.
Critter News
AUGUST 2, 2011
July 28, 2011 – This fall, thousands of people in more than 35 cities across North America will gather for the 2011 Walk for Farm Animals, a series of fun, community-focused events that promote kindness to animals and raise vital funds to support the lifesaving work of Farm Sanctuary, the nation’s leading farm animal protection organization.
10,000 Birds
MAY 12, 2013
This is called the “Head Immersion Method”, according to Birds of North America (BNA), a feeding process in which the bird dips its head in the water and mud to feast on aquatic invertebrates. (I National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America, 6th ed. Random House, 2003. Houghton Mifflin, 1986.
10,000 Birds
MAY 3, 2016
I purchased my first Sibley— The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America —in 2003. The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America: Second Edition. The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Western North America: Second Edition. I sit at my desk looking at my field guides. I have a lot.
10,000 Birds
JULY 4, 2017
This is the first identification guide that I know of that covers Mexico (technically North America but rarely included in North American raptor guides) and Central America. Like Peterson’s Hawks of North America, 2nd edition (Houghton Mifflin, 2001), which Clark co-authored with Brain K. klak-klak, keeear!,
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 4, 2021
The Chiricahua Mountains have some of the best birding in North America. On a typical day we bird from grasslands to the canyons, a second day we go up to the pine forests. Contact Cave Creek Ranch by email (preferred) Cavecreek@vtc.net or phone 520-558-2334 to schedule a guide.
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