10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2016

To an intermediate-level birder like me, the material in Better Birding –highly focused, detailed, based on the latest research and years of field experience– is daunting, but also fascinating. Sullivan are birders as well as writers, researchers, and organizational administrators, and this makes a big difference.

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AUGUST 9, 2018

According to a Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences study, human-induced climate change has doubled the area affected by forest fires in the western U.S. Forest Service research biologist Vicki Saab studies, birds evolved alongside fire and flee in the face of conflagrations. This is about 35 miles West of my home.

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APRIL 3, 2018

In the four-part ABA Blog series on subspecies , published in 2012, he argued we know too little about subspecies to use the term, and that birders should “show the characters of humility” and adapt alternative ways of articulating geographic differences. Species are useful handles (p. 16, below).”

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DECEMBER 11, 2018

Several years ago, I read about the enormous colonies of breeding birds in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands and I did some research to satisfy my curiosity. ( Google Scholar is an excellent resource and free full-text PDFs can be located for many papers, particularly when research is taxpayer-funded.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2012

This is probably one of the reasons Daniel Lewis,the author,turned from writing a popular biography to a history of ornithology as a science and the ornithologist as a profession. Lewis is Dibner Senior Curator of the History of Science and Technology and Chief Curator of Manuscripts at The Huntington Library in California.

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JANUARY 7, 2020

They wrote books and published research. It will chiefly be of interest to birders who bird the Bronx and to ornithologists and researchers in related fields who plan to study the birds of New York City or do comparable studies. This is a project that clearly spanned decades. Which is true. Another big year memoir?

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JULY 5, 2022

©2012 Donna L. Dead birds are a part of the life of a birder, a feeder of birds, and of bird science. This Tufted Titmouse was found stunned in the glass corridor several years after the feeders were taken down, showing that clear glass and vegetation are not a good combination any time.

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APRIL 5, 2022

Vagrancy in Birds is organized into two major parts: (1) A detailed, 62-page synthesis of research and theory and (2) “Family Accounts,” 259 pages covering bird families from Struthionidae/Ostriches) to Thraupidae/Tanagers and allies (Clements is the taxonomic authority). Copyright © 2022 Alexander Lees and James Gilroy.

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AUGUST 4, 2015

How to choose bird feeders; how to make nutritious bird food; how to create a backyard environment that will attract birds; how to survey your feeder birds for citizen science projects; how to prevent squirrels from gobbling up all your black oil sunflower seed (sorry, none of that works). million people in the U.S. in 2011*) came about.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2015

And, he places current research within a framework of paleontological history of intrigue, backstabbing, and name-calling feuds. (No, Pickrell, an Australian science writer who grew up in Great Britain and studied for his master’s degree at London’s Natural History Museum, is clearly engaged with his subject.

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OCTOBER 5, 2021

Consider that Paulson’s Dragonflies and Damselflies of the East (2012) covers 336 odonate species and think about the difference in geographic size and you get a sense of the concentrated diversity in Costa Rica (though the authors note that the rate of diversity is still less than the increase in diversity for butterflies and orchids).

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MARCH 14, 2011

For my new book, due out in 2012 from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, I’ve been researching sandhill crane hunting. A Great Backyard Bird Count Miracle Best Bird of the Weekend (Last of January 2011) What is the International Bird Rescue Research Center Anyway? Or These Blasts From The Past What’s In A Name?

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MARCH 4, 2014

The authors set June/July 2011 as the cut-off date, and were able to add noteworthy records up to November 2012, the date the manuscript was sent to the publisher. New species that were documented from Fall 2011 through Summer 2012 are listed in one of the appendices. What does it mean in the larger sense?

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AUGUST 4, 2018

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NOVEMBER 3, 2018

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OCTOBER 6, 2018

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JANUARY 5, 2019

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2018 Australia Woodpeckers Sparrows 113

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DECEMBER 1, 2018

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DECEMBER 8, 2022

Given the complexity of the research, the result feels like a bit of a letdown – “northern populations start migration earlier than southern populations, especially in autumn” The species name of the Chestnut-eared Bunting is fucata , from the Latin “fucare”, to paint red.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2018

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