article thumbnail

Untamed Americas

4 The Love Of Animals

“ Untamed Americas ” is a high-definition miniseries event narrated by Academy Award-nominated actor Josh Brolin. In it we get to see some of the amazing places in the wild areas of North America, Central America and South America. Untamed Americas: Coasts. The first of the series premiers June 10th, 2012.

America 100
article thumbnail

Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History from Cave Art to Conservation–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

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. British edition: Viking Press (Penguin), March 2022, ISBN: 9780241460498, £13.00. Birkhead knows that these are sensitive topics. Princeton Univ.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

What It’s Like to Be a Bird: A Review of the New Sibley Book

10,000 Birds

The emphasis is on everyday birds seen in North America, though some of the more exotic and local species are thrown in for the color and romance of it all–Atlantic Puffin, Roseate Spoonbill, the poor extinct Heath Hen. Some of the chapters focus on a specific bird, most are about bird families like hawks, tanagers, wrens, etc.,

2020 264
article thumbnail

Climate Change and Birds

10,000 Birds

And penguins. Forget about penguins. The Galapagos and South African penguins may be OK but many of those living in the Antarctic are doomed. At least 350 bird species in North America go to South or Central America in the fall and return in the spring.

Maryland 220
article thumbnail

Seabirds: The New Identification Guide: An ID Guide Review

10,000 Birds

We tend to think of seabirds as mysterious long-winged creatures that spend their lives flying over oceans–phalaropes, noddies, skuas, jaegers, auks, tropicbirds, penguins, albatrosses, storm-petrels, petrels, shearwaters, diving-petrels, frigatebirds, gannets, and boobies. Perrow, © Maps: Lynx Edicions. Major species names (i.e.,

Albatross 279