10,000 Birds

JANUARY 17, 2014

the book follows through mating and egg-laying, incubation and hatching, and the rearing of three young to successful fledging. As an experiment, I also ran this book by a non-birding friend. Reviews Bald Eagle book review' (with a view of the Capitol, no less!)

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Bald Eagle Eagles Endangered Species Washington 252

10,000 Birds

JUNE 12, 2011

Platypus have bills, bats and bugs can fly, and reptiles lay eggs, but only birds have feathers. Despite feathers being such a large and essential aspect of birdness I did not know much about them, at least until I read Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle , the fascinating new book by Thor Hansen. Feathers as toothpicks?

Reptiles 245

Reptiles Bats Eggs Humane 245

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2013

A breeding bird atlas is a special kind of book. For birders, it’s the extremely large book, shelved in a place where it can’t crush the field guides, used to research the history of a bird in their area. The resulting book, 616 pages in length, 6.4

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Pennsylvania Breeding Sparrows Birds 258

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2013

Kevin Ebi is a professional nature photographer whose work has appeared in a variety of magazines and books, including National Wildlife , Smithsonian , Outdoor Photographer , and Lonely Planet and Moon travel guides. Year of the Eagle is his third book. To pre-order your copy, visit the site I have set up to promote the book.

Eagles 245

Eagles Bald Eagle Seattle Game 245

10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2018

Where does the female Emperor Penguin go after she has produced that one egg and handed it over to the male for incubation? And, what about that female Emperor Penguin, who disappears for two months after handing her one egg over to her mate? Bruce Pearson is the book illustrator. Technology to the rescue!

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Albatross Penguins Research Breeding 127

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

And if you take this phrase, “stamps in weathered passports,” my interpretation is that the experiences from travel are the “stamps” as sights, sounds, tastes, smells, textures, on your “passport,” or soul. However, I cannot stop thinking about my name written in that book.

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Lesotho Sheep Groundhogs South Africa 246

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Based on his own experiences teaching ornithology to high school students in California, he believes that high school student often just need the spark of an interesting elective class that fills a graduation requirement. .” No publisher wants to publish a book that can’t be sold.

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2018 Agenda Science Massachusetts 264

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

The opening beautifully encapsulates the essence of the book. This is the story of Fox’s experiences on board the Achiever, the research vessel of the Raincoast Conservation Foundation. She is one of the best nature writers I’ve encountered in recent years, able to paint experiences with emotional immediacy.

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Fox Albatross Geese Bald Eagle 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 5, 2015

Birdie books will obviously take precedence, but a well written, lavishly illustrated guide is a thing of beauty whatever the discipline. A book mark was very useful to make the glossary quickly accessible. Did you know for example that some species of bee are cleptoparasites , exploiting the nests of other species for their own eggs.

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Ireland United States 2010 Game 124

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 15, 2017

Be warned, though, that I just finished this terrific book , so your stories better be good! So on Sunday morning he looked at Big Egg Marsh, which has a larger amount of saltmarsh habitat. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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2017 Sparrows Jamaica Eggs 100

Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

We don't really see gut instinct discussed in many books or blogs because it's our inner dialog, our inner voice and world. To make a great omelet you've just gotta break eggs. An Experiment. Tony’s most recent book is “Combo Prospecting.” Trust your gut. Jack Canfield used to say, "Feel the fear and do it anyway."

Sheep 131

Sheep Psychology Hunting Compassion 131

10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2022

This would have allowed you to summarize your experience in sentences such as “A total of 98 boluses regurgitated by 52 chicks aged 1 day to 11 days after hatching form the sample and are shown to contain 323 food items.” Women who like jacanas will probably also like Spotted Redshanks. But maybe that is actually a good thing.

Birds 162

Birds South Korea Japan Abandon 162

Animal Person

AUGUST 16, 2011

Over at Animal Rights and AntiOppression , we’ve been discussing tactics and sharing our thoughts and experiences about what works and doesn’t work when it comes to advocacy. Much of the book deals with topics vegans have likely pondered, likely frequently. The answer, throughout the entire 300 pages, essentially is: Because they do.

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Vegan Morals Pit Bulls Animal Rights 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2024

Taking inspiration from Matthiessen’s 1967 book (long out of print), which combined his natural history essays with species accounts by Ralph S. It is pointedly not an identification guide, though there is a lot of identification information in it, and it is not a coffee table book, though every page is illustrated.

North America 264

North America America 2006 Delaware 264

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Journeys With Penguins: Tracking the World’s Most Extreme Penguin is a different type of penguin book. It’s all about the improbable intersection of human beings and Emperor Penguins, and if I can’t make it to an Emperor Penguin colony (highly unlikely), reading this book has been the next best thing. Author Gerald L.

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Penguins Seals Leopards Mammals 234

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2024

Bird Day is a lovely, little jewel of a book. Hauber and artist Tony Angell fulfills this goal beautifully and was the factor that motivated me to review this book. The essays also touch on conservation, though less that the amount I would have assumed would be in a book that is part of an “Earth Day” series.

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Barn Owls Chicago Penguins New Zealand 244

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2012

It’s the warbler that is often the last unchecked species on birders’ life lists and, whether you list or not, for most of us observing it is a once in a lifetime experience. A nest wasn’t found until 1903, which set off a craze for Kirtland’s Warbler skins, nests, and eggs. photo by Lynn C.

Michigan 258

Michigan Bahamas Endangered Species Research 258

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Experiments in the field (the famed Asa Wright Nature Center veranda) involving Bananaquits and bananas came up with numbers ranging from 7 to 16, but a tanager always came along to interfere with Bananaquits’ noisy appreciation of their namesake fruit. There are two editions of the Kenefick book, the field guide. I was confused.

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Trinidad South America Birds 2011 248

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Birders are always happy to see a turtle or tortoise, and there are times of the year when my social media feeds are sprinkled with photos of turtles beings removed from roads or crawling to land to lay eggs. Though this is a book written for non-scientists, some of this material may initially intimidate readers.

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Turtles Tortoises Family Terrapins 262

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

This shouldn’t have to be stated, especially in a book on bird evolution by an evolutionary biologist with a Ph.D. But, ‘synthesis’ is a dry word, and this is a book with a quiet yet firm personality underlying its words. The book is smartly organized into 12 chapters. This is a book that requires attention.

Science 246

Science Albatross Owls Costa Rica 246

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2022

It’s a unique bird, even its scientific name is wonderful, so it’s not surprising that Gerard Gorman, Woodpecker Expert Supreme, has written a book all about the species. This is a very easy book to read. The latter is a nonmigratory, African endemic with a scattered, limited distribution. It’s an open question.

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Woodpeckers Hungary Thailand Europe 264

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2024

Her experiences are framed within the larger scientific histories how once common species become endangered, and of how people and organizations have strategized and explored controversial paths to bring their numbers up and nurture them till they fill our skies. My only wish is that the book included photographs.

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California Condor Falcons California Coyotes 188

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2013

The book is produced by WILDGuides, a nonprofit publishing organization that joined forces with Princeton University Press last year to create the Princeton WILDGuides imprint. Besides the urgent need to identify my dragonflies, I was interested in hands-on experience using these field guides.

Ireland 232

Ireland France Breeding Eggs 232

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2012

from University of Miami in 1966 and has written over 75 scientific and popular papers and books, including Shorebirds of North America: The Photographic Guide. Retirement apparently means writing this book and its companion volume, Dragonflies and Damselflies of the West (published by Princeton Univ. More on this later.)

United States 250

United States Costa Rica Massachusetts North America 250

10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2013

Once again Pied Oystercatcher breeding season is fast approaching in Broome and we can expect the first batch of eggs to be laid within the next few weeks. We have monitored a 23 kilometre section of beach in Broome for several years now and have discovered that they are not as site faithful or as monogamous as you read in text books.

Eggs 232

Eggs Breeding Australia Raised 232

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2013

It isn’t in your book of seabirds? (It But, to Elizabeth Gehrman, the author of Rare Birds: The Extraordinary Tale of the Bermuda Petrel and the Man who Brought it Back from Extinction, and to David Wingate, the man who Gehrman profiles in this excellent book, the Bermuda Petrel is always the cahow. You’ve never heard of the cahow?

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Rats Breeding Birds 2012 226

10,000 Birds

JULY 26, 2024

The first eggs are usually laid at the end of May or sometimes in the first week of June, but this can vary depending on the weather. Both sexes incubate, with the eggs taking an average of 19 or 20 days to hatch. This book is based on a long-running study of Swifts nesting in a tower at Oxford University’s Museum of Science.

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Liberia Africa Breeding Mozambique 246

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2022

The birds are so busy, finding sticks, flying with sticks, fixing nests, tending to eggs in nests, preening feathers, touching bills, feeding chicks, refusing to feed chicks. This was the High Island Experience, I was told. And all amidst many leaves and many branches in fading light. It was amazing.

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Houston Texas Sanctuary Sparrows 264

10,000 Birds

MAY 26, 2024

The island is teeming with so many birds that their eggs and young chicks were once harvested for food. We had the foresight to book the Three Islands Seabird Seafari in advance, a thrilling journey where we would see the seabirds around Lamb, Craigleith, and Bass Rock from a small inflatable boat.

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Puffins Sanctuary Lamb Investigation 239

10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2019

Bird of Prey (not to be confused with the upcoming comic book film Birds of Prey ) tells the story of the Philippine Eagle in layers of time and place. Today, we know a little more, such as the fact that an eagle couple produces one egg every two years, but numbers remain low, too low. 1980’s Filmstrip, photo by Eric Liner.

Eagles 203

Eagles Philippines Eggs Monkeys 203

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2019

So, I was very excited when I heard that Rick Wright was writing a book about sparrows, the first treatment of North American sparrows since 2001, possibly the first book about sparrows of North America, depending on your definition of that geographic area. Scope of Book. Read the Introduction! I like it.

North America 201

North America Sparrows America United States 201

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2017

This is a large, heavy book–6.8 Illustrations were created using diverse visual and physical source materials–skin collections from Australian museums and a database of over 300,000 photographs (plus, of course, the artists’ years of field experience).

Australia 160

Australia Penguins Birds New Zealand 160

10,000 Birds

MAY 30, 2019

That summer of 1938, when he was ten years old, Cade read of two brothers, Frank and John Craighead, who wrote of their experiences with falcons in National Geographic. “It was all in books,” he would later admit. It was there where the first glimpse of his future began. The concern possessed him. I knew no falconers.

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Falcons California Condor Alaska Texas 214

Animal Person

OCTOBER 26, 2009

The good news is that if you know someone who needs to be schooled on all of the sordid details of factory farming, and appreciates good writing, this is a great book. Also, if, like me, you know someone who appreciates the things we do with language to mask the reality of our behavior, this is a great book. Not great, but good.

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Factory Farm Factory Farming Animal Vegan 100

Animal Person

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

There will be no pies or cakes that were made with milk that was meant for calves, or eggs that represent dead male chicks , forced molting, debeaking and other mutilations and cruelties. Justice for beings who look very different from us but who, like us, experience pleasure and pain, boredom and frustration.

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Greyhounds Forced Molting Debeaking Vegan 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2015

So, it is strange that while books have been written about owls and hawks, and the semi-charismatic seabirds and shorebirds, there have been few books written about woodpeckers. This is a comprehensive, handsome reference book that is likely to become the standard for many years. Gorman is the perfect woodpecker author.

Woodpeckers 264

Woodpeckers 2002 Europe Philippines 264

10,000 Birds

MARCH 9, 2011

Let us for once judge a book by its cover, and take a thorough look at a Black-headed Gull in breeding plumage. How do I know of their Gothic moods when they have hidden them so well in an egg-white shell of conformity? Spring is the perfect season to take this book for a spin! Ring-billed Gull - yes indeed. Thanks, Wikipedia

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2011 Birds Deer Europe 221