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.”

New York City 201

New York City Pelicans Penguins New York 201

10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2017

Species Accounts are arranged taxonomically, grouped by family. Family sections start with a brief description of the characteristics shared by the species in the family, followed by a description of the sounds made by those species and how they obtain their song/call knowledge. by Nathan Pieplow. Peterson Field Guide series.

North America 189

North America America Sparrows Birds 189

10,000 Birds

MARCH 23, 2020

Great Shearwater – At this point, seabirds are my weakest family in Queens with the most species having reported in the borough that I have not seen. 314 – Sooty Shearwater , 13 May 2017: Yes! A bird I predicted and it ended my longest slump ever of not adding a new bird in Queens, over a year! Sooty Shearwater – Ditto.

2018 232

2018 2019 2015 Kansas City 232

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2021

Ballantine and Hyman explore how birds communicate and summarize studies on how that communication functions in diverse bird families all over the world. Their text is combined with 200 (rough count) brightly colored photographs, many full or three-quarter page in size, and 10 charts and diagrams. This is a beautifully designed book.

North America 279

North America Birds Research America 279

10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2017

Can a family-focused trip—even to one of the world’s most biodiverse countries—deliver enough opportunities for avian observation to satisfy this serious world birder? With enough planning, you can enjoy a family-friendly, bird-rich vacation in the Panama Canal zone. If you have kids, you’re probably as curious as I was.

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Panama 2017 Monkeys Family 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2017

Even when hunting in sub-freezing temperatures on the edge of the Mongolian border or doing her chores around the family ger (yurt) in the isolated Altai Mountains, Aisholpan beams. Eagle hunting is a family tradition that goes back at least 12 generations, part of the larger nomadic Kazakh culture.

Eagles 133

Eagles Mongolia Hunters Hunting 133

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2017

I started the year in Florida, traveled to India with the ABA in February, combined family and birding in an August trip to California, and in-between saw very good birds in New York and New Jersey. Bring on 2017! Many sad and unfortunate things occurred in 2016, but the birding was good.

2016 167

2016 India Ducks Costa Rica 167

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 18, 2018

When I was a kid, I remember asking about the possibility of seeing a Bald Eagle around western New York. Yellow-breasted Crake – Along with most other members of their reclusive family. My 2017, Costa Rica Cave Swallow, Chomes in November is a good place and time for it. I’ll start with some global ones.

Costa Rica 124

Costa Rica Bald Eagle Eagles North America 124

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2020

Everyone is looking back on their best birds of 2019, so I thought it would be a good idea to look at a book that looks back a little further: Urban Ornithology: 150 Years of Birds in New York City , by P. Natural areas include Pelham Bay Park, Van Cortlandt Park, Woodlawn Cemetery, New York Botanical Garden, and the Bronx Zoo.

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New York City New York Birds Breeding 227

Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 1, 2017

We don’t have the space to cover everything here, but talk a bit about how you got pulled into Tony Hsieh’s somewhat cultish world after meeting him at a New York speaking engagement. His family members and close friends all work for him. SMM: Tony’s self-imposed deadline for Downtown Project was January 2017.

Las Vegas 54

Las Vegas Experience Experiments Nevada 54

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

In many cases, our waterfowl, gulls, and shorebirds are the same as those overseas – or only slightly different – and there are many other corresponding species in nearly all the shared families. Quintas das Arcas: Vinho Verde “Bicudo” (2017). Good birding and happy drinking! Three out of five feathers (Good).

2017 159

2017 Portugal Rabbits Europe 159

10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2017

In 2009, I traveled from New York City to the tropical rainforest of Ecuador. The New Neotropical Companion. Princeton University Press, 2017. It was my first trip to the Neotropics, and I had no idea what I was getting into. You may even begin to feel a sense of belonging in this very different world. By John Kricher.

South America 189

South America Ecuador Reptiles America 189

10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2024

This may be before the Fairy-Wrens developed the ability to detect Cuckoo young in the nest, an ability recently described by ornithologists, or this family may be one of the 60% who don’t detect Cuckoo chicks. She’s also produced books on the Art of British Natural History (2017), Expeditions and Endeavours.

Australia 246

Australia Birds Europe Collecting 246

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2019

I birded parks, landfills, fields, backyards, skies, oceans, lakes, ponds, and roads in 15 states–some familiar haunts and patches, some as part of family visits, some while passing through, some adventures with friends (three trips with N.J. In the meantime, it’s a good topic for holiday family gatherings.

2018 202

2018 Michigan North Dakota New Jersey 202

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

This is how, I think, the “Crossley technique” works best—coverage of specific bird families that pose identification challenges to birders at all levels of skill. And Hybrids: Waterfowl tend to hybridize to a greater degree than most other bird families, and the guide does an excellent job of covering hybrids. Crossley Books, 2017.

Ducks 178

Ducks Geese North America Hunters 178