10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

It seems the bird I saw is a first-winter one, at least according to the HBW description: “First-winter has head white apart from dark brown mottling on crown and nape; upperwing-coverts extensively marked brown; black subterminal tail-band; dark bare parts.” Grey-backed Thrush , less so. It is beautiful, too.

Birds 255

Birds Psychology Tail Banding Buffalo 255

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2012

This may be the most awesome pelagic you’ll ever experience… For me it was the publication in 1984 of Peter Harrison’s ground-breaking identification guide to ‘ Seabirds ’ that opened up the off-shore world of pelagic birding right on Cape Town’s door step.

Albatross 197

Albatross Penguins Dolphins Whales 197

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 245

Puerto Rico Parrots New York City 2013 245

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Each bird illustration consists of two parts–the image itself on the right-hand page full-page size with a wide white border, and the text on the left-hand page, a brief description of the bird in Harper’s distinctive voice. Each section, with one exception, offers images and text of ten birds; Vanishing Birds contains eleven.

Betty Crocker 170

Betty Crocker Birds 2008 2007 170

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. An additional aid to finding specific birds is the page design, which places page number and bird group on the upper left and right hand corners of the left and right pages.

New Jersey 255

New Jersey Birds 2014 Species 255