10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2021

There was a time when I thought each bird species had its own individual song. Then I found out that there was this vocalization called a ‘call,’ so I thought each bird species had its own individual song (but just the males) and individual call. How do they know?

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North America Research Birds Groups 278

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2023

So, I was intrigued when I saw that Comstock Publishing, an arm of Cornell University Press, was publishing Baby Bird Identification: A North American Guide by Linda Tuttle-Adams. The scarcity of information on the young of some avian species is astounding. Not all species accounts have corresponding plates or photographs.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Birds Family Collecting 258

10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2015

These and several other species might end up being armchair ticks if and when we take a closer look at their evolutionary history. Taxa that could end up being split into one species occurring north of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, and one south of the isthmus. (2). Two subspecies of the same species that differ within Costa Rica. (4).

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Costa Rica Species South America America 213

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2023

I am only including them in this post to give you my real-life Kabul experience … Four species are the most easily seen in the few urban parks (into which women are not actually allowed to enter – I am not sure about female birds). The second, even more pressing area is female education.

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Afghanistan Birds Feral Zoos 174

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 26, 2023

That is why I am so pleased to see the new “Gulls of Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East: An Identification Guide” being illustrated with nearly 1400 colour photographs of the 45 species of gulls found in the Western Palearctic. Detailed range maps with a textual range description for each species are included. 978-0691222837

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Europe Africa Greece Groups 232

10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2020

No matter where on this big, beautiful planet you live, you probably anticipate the passage of new species over the next thirty-one days. Corey has a head start on me down in NYC, so expect him to press the advantage by hitting coastal Queens. How about you? Where will you be this weekend and will you be birding?

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2020 Suffering Birds Species 160

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Species formerly referred to as P. One recent study found that this species was sister to P. perdix , and also that race przewalskii (sometimes subsumed within suschkini , but generally paler) was basal to other taxa included within the present species. barbata , but present name has priority. So, I later looked this up.

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China Birds Austria ALA 249

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2022

Every place has its common birds, the species that do very well in a given habitat. As we like to say, these are species that are “hard to miss”, birds that, if you are watching, will be seen. In most places, the number of birds makes it a challenge to pick just one signature species, Costa Rica included.

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Costa Rica San Jose Asia Geese 147

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2021

Pough “with illustrations in color of every species” by Don Eckelberry, Doubleday, 1946. The guides bore the Audubon Society name, were published by Knopf and distributed by Random House, but they were actually conceived and produced by an outfit called Chanticleer Press and they became a publishing sensation.

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North America America Birds California Condor 279

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

I just pressed the wrong button when working on the post on September 28 (feel free to insert your own joke about premature something here). If you want to pretend to combine learning Mandarin and learning about this species, watch this video. There is also the usual article about the first sighting of the species at a new location.

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Birds Deer China Owls 223

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

There was one odd reprint in 2018, when the Subalpine Warbler was split into the Eastern and Western species, but the changes in the guide weren’t sufficient to call it a 3rd edition, so it remained the updated reprint of the 2nd edition. I haven’t noticed changes in the few descriptions of harder to ID species that I compared.

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Europe Birds Woodpeckers Ireland 255

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

According to Storks, Ibises and Spoonbills of the World , a handsome volume written by James Hancock, James Kushan and Philip Kohl and published by Academic Press in 1992, Geronticus eremita “once nested in the mountains of central Europe, across northern Africa and into the Middle East. But this range is now much reduced.

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Morocco Austria Algeria Germany 226

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 25, 2019

Yet that is not the overall impression that I came away with while reading this solid and attractive new title from Indiana University Press. Endangered and Disappearing Birds of the Midwest by Matt Williams – Indiana University Press, $29.00.

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Indiana Downers Iowa Illinois 128

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 8, 2020

The authors wrote: [Species] “are the currency of field guides and of birding, but deciding what to treat as ‘species’ is inevitably a subjective endeavour. … We have tended to a liberal (= realistic) direction when recognising species.” There are no species distribution maps, only textual descriptions.

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Chile Birds South America North America 202

Critter News

DECEMBER 29, 2008

A breeding program in Malaysia will attempt to breed a rescued Borneo Sumatran rhino in order to save the endangered species. Their numbers are so low that they might drift into extinction if no one does anything," Payne told The Associated Press.

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Rhinos Malaysia Species Wildlife Reserve 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

This is “the deep cradle of Western ornithology: the birthplace of bird study,” he tells us as he writes about gazing at the 8,000-year old depictions of “flamingos, herons, raptors, avocets and many other species” (p. Press, August 2022, 496pp., With Birkhead, you never know what’s going to come next.

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Dissection Birds Research Europe 222

10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2013

They wanted to put together a book about The World’s Rarest Birds , but were finding that it was pretty difficult locating photographs of the 590 bird species considered Extinct in the Wild, Critically Endangered or Endangered. photograph used courtesy of Princeton University Press. The solution? Asides photography rarities'

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2012 United States Birds 2010 178

10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2020

The wine is called The Curator, and on the attractive, vaguely Art Deco label we get a yellow cockatoo of indeterminate species in a cage. According to the winery, the grapes are hand-picked, chilled, and pressed, with the must undergoing a slow, natural fermentation. The Curator is an annual release from A.A.

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2016 Family ADI Africa 155

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Agonizing quandaries concerning invasive species are well-known to wildlife biologists. Marra and Chris Santella, authors of Cat Wars: The Devastating Consequences of a Cuddly Killer (Princeton University Press, 212 pp., Princeton University Press, 212 pp., This is Mark’s first contribution to 10,000 Birds. By Peter P.

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Feral Cats Cats Tnr Feral 259

10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2022

per cent of individuals of a species at a given time” and a vagrant bird as a bird that shows up outside of this range (p. The accounts cover vagrancy patterns for the family as a whole, reasons for vagrancy, documented examples of vagrancy for specific species and reasons that might account for those incidents. Press, Feb.

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Birds Compassion Eagles Science 260

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2023

This leaves Shanghai in June with basically just the year-round species and the summer breeders, maybe with a few added ultra-lazy individuals of migratory species. Fortunately, there are a few more such breeding species than most Shanghainese are aware of. Such as the Black-winged Cuckooshrike.

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Birds Eggs Breeders Breeding 130

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 19, 2016

And with the bird’s oak scrub habitat rapidly disappearing , scientists are searching for ways to preserve the species. (Photo above by Louise Hunt, courtesy of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology) At just about 5,000 individuals, Florida’s only exclusive endemic is Endangered. ”

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Florida Research California Hunting 176

10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2021

Before I had a clue what I was doing, I encompassed the Danube backwaters into the reserve borders that I drew on transparent paper pressed against a street map of the city. It is a spacious floodplain between the River Danube and the levee, 2.1 mi at its widest point and some 9 km2 / 3.5

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Serbia Deer Protection Boars 276

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2020

With things being what they are in 2020, there’s been no shortage of pundits on cable news and social media, there to proffer opinions on politics, the pandemic, and other pressing topics of our age on the 24-hour news cycle. I can’t say whether one of these species is more prone to punditry than the other.

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2016 Washington Owls United States 187

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Navarro’s exceptional drawings illustrate the species accounts. Forty-eight species. Press, 2000), and updated in terms of taxonomy, status, and distribution. Compare, for example, the species account illustration of the Cuban Trogon with the photo that opens up the introductory chapter.

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Cuba Birds United States 2000 232

10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2021

You can’t say the same about migration: you can’t say that every book about birds is necessarily about migration, for the simple reason that only about 4,000 bird species migrate (with some 1,800 of those traveling long distances). Yale University Press, New Haven and London, May 19, 2020. By Mike Unwin and David Tipling.

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Alaska Breeding Kenya Africa 209

Animal Ethics

AUGUST 15, 2012

The rights view is not opposed to efforts to save endangered species. If people are encouraged to believe that the harm done to animals matters morally only when these animals belong to endangered species, then these same people will be encouraged to regard the harm done to other animals as morally acceptable.

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Endangered Species Species Los Angeles Morals 40

10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2020

In the marshes of the estancia , he discovers what he comes to believe is a new species of rail – one of the “accidentals” of the title. Torrey House Press, 342 pp., With no great fondness for his tech job in the U.S., Gabe agrees to come along. What an ugly sentence that is. Accidentals. By Susan M. March 10,2020.

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Uruguay 2001 Bald Eagle Science 154

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

The book covers all of China, which given the large number of species (1484 are covered in the guide), the relatively low level of bird knowledge and also the limited market for such a book in English language (MacKinnon claims in one interview that the Chinese edition sold ten times more than the English one) is quite an achievement.

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China Brazil 2000 Birds 203

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

As far as wine goes, we’d be hard pressed to name a more romantic style than Chianti. And despite it being undeniably gorgeous, we’re hardly likely to see this species replacing white doves on Valentine’s Day cards anytime soon. The European Roller (c. 1828), a watercolor by Swedish-Finnish painter Wilhelm von Wright (1810-1887). .

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2016 Abandon Abandoning Abandonment 174

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2024

They are of the race islandica , a sub species of the nominate race, limosa. I photographed the godwit because of the rings, but when I pressed the shutter on the Black-headed Gull ( above ) I hadn’t even noticed that it was ringed. Rings are not the only way of marking birds, and with a number of species wing tags are more often used.

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Lithuania Morocco Iceland Ireland 130

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

I knew we should have used a bigger species! This might not have been the best species to use. We got some press ! We got some good press and the duck is wandering around Manhattan now. How lazy and/or bad are these New York City birders? From: Tyrannus. Date: 09 October 2018. RE: Waiting. Have patience. To: Tyrannus.

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Ducks 2018 New York City Sparrows 150

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 21, 2017

Nate made landfall to the east and as morning came, one would be hard pressed to say that there had been a storm. Being easily accessible on public transport and with an eBird haul of 261 species, City Park seemed to be the perfect choice for the morning. and takes the turn for City Park. Trolley car 12 plies its route along St.

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Louisiana Branding Transported Ducks 101

10,000 Birds

MAY 12, 2014

A little research revealed that these are old names of birds that have been split into different species. Water Pipit is now known as a European species; the American subspecies became the full species American Pipit in 1989. Scientific names don’t reflect the massive changes to species in the warbler family.

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2006 2014 Connecticut North America 198

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The text goes far beyond just those two birds, however, as Doug works his way through the puzzles presented by the incredibly wide diversity of bird behavior, even within species, citing current research and new and old theories, reasoning out the most likely and unlikely answers. The six middle chapters are my favorite reading. ” (p.

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Science Albatross Research Birds 216

10,000 Birds

MAY 28, 2013

While many of us anxiously await the AOU’s decisions on some recently proposed splits (spoiler alert: I’m getting an armchair lifer and state bird in the form of a second species of Sage Sparrow ), we are always looking on the horizon for future splits…and their dreaded counterparts, the lumps.

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2006 Sparrows Species Rights 182

10,000 Birds

JUNE 24, 2016

Blackbirds, as a family, often have those simple descriptive names that are easy to mock ( Yellow-rumped Warbler , ugh) until a non-birder comes describing such a species to you and asking for an ID. He was even suspected by his opponents of using his standing with the Boston press to print scurrilous anonymous editorials about them.

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Blackbirds Boston Science Sparrows 190