10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2021

The holidays started early this year, with the first night of Hannukah coming right at the end of Thanksgiving weekend! The guide covers terns and gulls, penguins and phalaropes, but birders will be most interested in its treatment of seabirds like shearwaters, storm-petrels, diving-petrels, albatrosses, and skuas. Donna). ==.

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Birds Colombia Collecting Bald Eagle 245

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

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.,

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Albatross Penguins Family Groups 279

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

They say so right here in the Preface of Oceanic Birds of The World: A Photo Guide —seabirds are “some of the most challenging of all birds to identify.” Care has been taken to align the photographs and photo plates so the birds always face right, allowing for a consistency of view that makes comparative examination easier.

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Albatross North America Birds Groups 164

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2019

Clearly, author Phyllis Limbacher Tildes, the author of 24, soon to be 25, children’s books, is also a birder (and a little research brings up a presentation she gave at Ogeechee Audubon, Georgia with the biographical information and she and her family “love watching birds and wildlife seen near their lagoon on Skidaway Island.”

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New York City Pelicans Birds New York 155

10,000 Birds

JULY 14, 2011

southern Australia’s cool winter weather and wonderful birds sound mighty appealing right now and 2. This group includes the Suliformes , Pelecaniformes (as newly redefined), storks, tubenoses, penguins, loons , and perhaps tropicbirds. And so it’s July, which for this North American birder means a couple of things: 1.

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Madagascar Birds Louisiana Groups 164

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2020

This is a delightful book, large (8-1/2 by 11 inches), filled with Sibley’s distinctive artwork and an organized potpourri of research-based stories about the science behind bird’s lives. Each spread consists of a full-page painting of a bird or group of birds on the left and a combination of text and illustrations on the right.

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2020 Birds Groups North America 264

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

The book opens with an engaging description of a colony of Southern Rockhopper Penguins , whose plummeting numbers may be attributable to warming ocean temperatures. In addition, and in part because of the authors’ very right and necessary scrupulousness, the more poetically descriptive passages sometimes fall short for me style-wise.

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Netherlands Birds Buffalo Science 159

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Only one species of penguin breeds on the Australian mainland; five additional species breed on sub-Antarctic islands. Each Species Account consists of text on the left-hand page, distribution maps on the bottom of the page, and illustrations on the right. Additional measurements are given for certain species, like penguins.)

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Australia Birds Penguins 2015 108

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2013

Additionally, each of Antarctica’s so-called endemic species ( Emperor Penguin, Antarctic Petrel and South Polar Skua ) actually wander more widely in the southern oceans and have been known to turn up in other locations.

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Birds South Africa South America Feral Cats 211

10,000 Birds

MARCH 12, 2011

Jean Loscalzo is a penguin buff (Can you blame her?) and would love to watch Rockhopper Penguins. My Brazilian wish bird would be Rockhopper Penguin: raucous, feisty birds with really cool haircuts, a sort of disheveled yellow-black shaggy look that they wear well. Wicked, right? Hat-tip to Stella.

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Brazil 2011 Birds Wildlife 212

10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2011

All of this leads to a longer life list, which is, after all, the entire point of bridwatching, right? Way back when I started what turned out to be my thesis research (on humans), it became important for me to learn about bird migration. Some of the research being done then (the 1980s) was pretty naive and sometimes downright silly.

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Research Humane Compassion New York 197

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 6, 2018

Watch out for Tom during October to see this anomaly put right. African Penguin – Spheniscus demersus. Yellow-eyed Penguin – Megadyptes antipodes. Katiki Point Penguin reserve. Hopland Research and Extension Center (restricted access). Hopland Research and Extension Center (restricted access).

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2018 Australia Woodpeckers Los Angeles 113

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2019

This year the big prize must go to Tom who has pushed himself, right to the wire to acheive a magnificent score for a self-funded, wife-organised, wife-sponsored Little Big Year , accounting for 57% of the total. Hopland Research and Extension Center (restricted access). Yellow-eyed Penguin – Megadyptes antipodes.

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2018 Australia Woodpeckers Sparrows 113