10,000 Birds

AUGUST 7, 2014

Birding in Greece – Travel Guide to birdwatching sites in Greece (2014, 2nd edition – I was not aware of the first!) Maybe I am short of imagination, but no other group comes to mind. Birding in Greece – Travel Guide to birdwatching sites in Greece (2014, 2nd edition) by Chris Vlachos, Roula Trigou and Lefteris Stavrakas.

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Greece Macedonia Birds 2014 260

10,000 Birds

JULY 17, 2013

All you need to do to realize this unfortunate reality is to check out their official “Duck Stamp” page announcing the new 2013 – 2014 season. You don’t have to be a genius to see the folly in this approach to Duck Stamp sales. million hunting visits. million fishing visits. 30 million wildlife viewing visits.

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Ducks Wildlife Hunters Hunting 262

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 6, 2015

I reviewed the New Jersey volume in May 2014 and, being in Florida at the moment, I thought this was a good time to take a closer look at both the Florida volume, published just last month, and the Colorado volume, published in June 2014. (I December 2014. Interestingly, there is little overlap. field guides in general.

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Colorado Florida New Jersey North America 267

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

If you have any doubts whether you want to see a Snares Penguin, you can read the species description, directly following, and drink in photos of their bright, droopy yellow eyebrows, bulbous dark-red bills with bare pink skin at the base, and peek at a group of the penguins, walking en masse within the thick island scrub.

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Penguins Georgia Albatross New Zealand 279

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

The winter of 2014 is quite warm and the numbers are much lower, but the Opovo record, as counted by Vuckovic, is 250 owls. Back in November, one group of British birders visited Serbia and, as one of them later wrote in his blog, their local guide promised them the GGS – “That one is guaranteed“, the guide declared. ‘He

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Serbia Owls Rodents India 247

10,000 Birds

APRIL 30, 2017

My reasons for not liking a strict taxonomic order were essentially twofold: Similar species are not grouped together making identification harder than it should be. The pittas ( Garnet Pitta seen above) are just such a sacred group of birds that even taxonomists dare not screw them over. Phillipps, Q. & van Balen, N.

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Brunei 2009 2014 2016 210

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 19, 2014

It is technically correct, and recently fashionable, to insist that any living animal is a member of the larger group that contains it phylogenetically, i.e., ancestrally, with that group often named after the known animal that roots the tree. So, for example, humans are apes. The point is, of course, that whales are not cows.

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Camels Whales Whaling Apes 258

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The inside front covers are the start of four-page pictorial guides to bird families/groups and the pages where they can be found, a quick, easy entry to the identification process (see image above). The Species Accounts follow the ‘modern guide’ format, with illustrations clearly labeled and arranged in species groupings.

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Costa Rica Belize El Salvador Birds 246

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 26, 2014

There are four generally recognized groups within the complex, “ Myrtle ” ( coronata ) of eastern and northern North America, “ Audubon’s ” ( auduboni ) of the western United States and western Canada, “ Black-fronted ” ( nigrifrons ) of Mexico, and “ Goldman’s ” ( goldmani ) of Guatemala.

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United States 2011 Guatemala North America 267

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 10, 2017

In other words, as a group Strycker’s guides are as colorful and interesting, and as much a part of the book, as the birds themselves. Suffice it to say that the numbers predicted on this site by Corey and two commenters, in 2014, when Strycker announced his plan, all were low.

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Sri Lanka Cleveland Philippines Birds 187

10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2021

Only recently was it discovered that one group, which breeds on the Shetland Islands, flies across the Atlantic to winter off the coast of Ecuador – ten thousand miles away from its cousins who breed in Scandanavia and western Russia. Once it was thought that all Red-necked Phalaropes migrated overland to the Arabian Sea and Indian Ocean.

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Alaska Kenya Georgia Russia 264

10,000 Birds

APRIL 19, 2016

Since colonially nesting birds and crocodilians co-occur in many tropical and subtropical wetlands, our results highlight a potentially widespread keystone process between two ecologically important species-groups.

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Alligators Leopards Protection Rabbits 176

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2016

When I went to Honduras in 2014, I was advised to use The Birds of Costa Rica by Richard Garrigues and Robert Dean (2014) and The Birds of Mexico and Northern Central America by Steve N.G. It has been a long time between field guides for most of these countries. Howell and Sophie Webb (a classic, but big and published in 1995).

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El Salvador America Costa Rica Honduras 235

10,000 Birds

APRIL 14, 2021

Finding this elusive and beautiful species at Pino Real kind of put me “on the map” with my wonderful group of Mexican birder friends. It wasn’t until a later Pino Real trip, back in 2014, that I saw my first Black-headed Siskins. Chestnut-sided Shrike-Vireos are still present! But, thank God, it has not.

2013 235

2013 Abandoning Abandonment Abandon 235

10,000 Birds

MAY 6, 2014

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. Small, due out in June 2014. April 2014. The black print on a diagonally-striped goldenrod-and-white background makes it easy to browse though the book.

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New Jersey Birds 2014 Tail Banding 259

10,000 Birds

MARCH 12, 2019

In 2014, FWS completed a five-year status review , concluding that continuing urbanization and associated habitat destruction and fragmentation still threatened the warbler. Ashe juniper bark is used for nest construction, but Ashe juniper has been — and continues to be — removed due to urbanization and other development.

Austin 214

Austin Texas Endangered Species United States 214

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Then a group of birders appeared from the forest. “At On July 8, 2014, the Colombian government declared this area as the Ramsar site Estrella Fluvial de Inírida – the River Star of Inírida. The sunset was slowly blanketing the scene, making the water ever bluer and the forest deeper shaded.

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Colombia Fish Birds Venezuela 279

10,000 Birds

JUNE 19, 2019

I was shut out on the cuckoo, but discovered a group of Bushtits , which made them a first time for Florida Canyon for me. Then, I spotted this one bird in the group of 12-14 (OK, 12 to 14 plus or minus) Bushtits , an anomaly. Just last Saturday, I was up in the canyon, hoping to see the Yellow-billed Cuckoo that has been reported.

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Florida Arizona Texas 2014 113

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

Once upon a time, back in the heady, innocent days of 2014, I reviewed a book called The Mincing Mockingbird Guide to Troubled Birds. Of all the books I’ve ever had the honor of reviewing for this site, it was in some ways the most attuned to my own particular sensibility.

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Lovebirds 2014 Eggs Wildlife 154

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Dolphin and whale photographic plates offer notes on fin and blowhole size and shape, with the text giving visual clues on what surfacing whales look like (a sperm whale “looks like a giant turd”) and how various dolphin species leap and group together. Texas A&M University Press; Second Edition, 2014. 352 pages; paperback; 4.5

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Pennsylvania Texas Whales Whaling 189

10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2022

Thank you, goddess of birding luck and text group people).* The book is richly illustrated with contributions from a group of birders/photographers who were fortunate to see and document many of the vagrants covered. It reminds me a lot of Rare Birds of North America , the 2014 book by Steve N. Don’t worry.

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Compassion Birds Eagles Science 264

10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2017

Cervera on April 30th, 1927, and a recent sighting (no photographs or video) in November 2014 by ornithologist Andy Mitchell and naturalist Angel Martinez. The bird flies around our group, alights onto a bush and, just as I raise my camera, dives into the bush. We did see the Zapata Wren, but it took a lot of work. The wren comes in!

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Cuba Birds 2015 Bahamas 189

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 2, 2014

Species Accounts are grouped by family, following what appears to be Sibley and Monroe’s 1996 taxonomy. (I There are plates like the one for Migrant Robins, images grouped neatly by species, all facing the same direction in the same perched pose. Press, March 2014; UK: John Beaufoy Publishing Ltd; 2014. 372 pages, 8.3

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Brunei Asia Birds China 233

Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 8, 2014

Issue Date: 2014-12-08. Author: Lynly Schambers Lenox, Group Product Marketing Manager, Adobe Inc. Teaser: The time is fast approaching when filling your car trunk with brochures, catalogs, and other sales tools will be a thing of the past.

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2014 Groups 97

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

People of all ages and backgrounds brighten the ride and the book as they welcome Dorian to their homes (his blog asked for shelter and people responded, he also used a biking home-share group and motels) and help him find elusive birds (although Dorian is mostly on his own, there are occasions when help is crucial).

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Los Angeles Massachusetts Birds New York City 246

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2023

Way back in 2014, when I saw my first Chestnut-sided Shrike-Vireo near the little town of Pino Real, and shared the sighting on a birders’ chat group, it took just over a month for the first biologist/ornithologist to visit me. It seems he had looked long and wide for this species.

Mexico 276

Mexico Cuba Species Turkey 276

10,000 Birds

MAY 6, 2016

As Kenn Kaufman points out in an August 2014 article for Birdwatching , it’s possible to envision that tyrant label sticking to the kingbird either on the basis of its bold behavior or its red crown. The tyrant flycatchers, in turn, derive their name from the first member of the family to land a Latin name, the Eastern Kingbird.

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Costa Rica Family 2014 Collecting 140

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Britain’s Birds is organized in a very loose taxonomic order, with priority given to grouping together birds that are perceived as similar. Browsing is facilitated by section titles at the top of each left-hand page and smaller group titles on the upper right-hand page. plus a chapter on “Vagrant landbirds from North America.”

Ireland 203

Ireland Birds Falcons Turtles 203

10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2017

In early 2014 the rainfall was good and flooded the main highway south from Broome and made for some excellent birding from your car. The area remained flooded for several months in 2014 and there was significant road damage, but over the months the birding improved as more and more birds arrived in the area.

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Geese Breeding Eggs 2014 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2014

Hugh, who years ago helped me find my first Pauraque in the Rio Grande Valley , visited Peru as part of the 2014 World Birding Rally, where he stopped thinking of himself as an experienced birder. Hugh Powell is a science editor at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. This is his first contribution to 10,000 Birds. Come to Peru, they said.

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Peru South America Birds Kenya 255

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 7, 2014

In the Hummingbird chapter, for example, descriptions are given for four out of fourteen genera, describing the structural, plumage, and behavioral characteristics that define the group. National Geographic Society, October 2014. Dunn, maps by Paul Lehman. ISBN-10: 1426213735; ISBN-13: 9781426213731. 744pages; 10.1

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North America America Family Falcons 215

Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 29, 2018

When I conduct focus groups or individual interviews with highly loyal customers across a broad spectrum of different industries (e.g., Let me illustrate this with some analysis we did a few years ago for an internet retailer: I surveyed approximately 1,000 respondents who had placed an order with our client in January 2014.

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Groups Medical Experiments Experience 108

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2015

million by the EPA in 2012 and was sold to Global Harvest Foods in 2014. Facebook and Flickr, with their bird photography groups for birders and photographers of all levels, have encouraged people to pay more attention to the birds they feed. Scott’s was fined $12.5

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America Squirrels Industry Birds 250

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2019

And, because Ruby’s Birds is published by the Cornell Lab Publishing Group, these birds are shown again in the back of the book, in a section that challenges children to “Find These Birds in This Book–And in Your City!” Beach Lane Books, 2014. Cornell Lab Publishing Group, Wundermill Books, March 2019.

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New York City Pelicans Penguins New York 201

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2020

The guide covers 1,433 species, the number of birds documented at the end of 2014, the cutoff point for the book. But, the numbers are quite large, and the birds organized in groupings that, for the most part, make it an easy process to figure out which Antwren (or Woodcreeper or Seedeater) is which.

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Bolivia Birds Brazil Switzerland 250

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

’ So, we learn that the gulls in one grouping are all rare, and the gulls in another grouping are part of a “large, cosmopolitan group,” that must be identified through studying structure, upper-wing pattern, and head pattern. Press, 2014); and Guide to the Birds of Honduras by Robert J.

America 214

America El Salvador Costa Rica Honduras 214

Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Issue Date: 2014-09-01. We reached out to users and non-users of incentive travel alike, and picked up important insights from both groups. We reached out to users and non-users of incentive travel alike, and picked up important insights from both groups. Author: Paul Nolan. read more'

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