10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

The descriptions of the territory’s birds, seals, whales, introduced mammals, invertebrates, and plants are written within the framework of the conversationist, so it is more than a field guide, it is a record of endangered wildlife and the efforts being made to protect it. The temptation will be to jump to the Wildlife sections.

Georgia 210

Georgia Penguins Wildlife Whales 210

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 2, 2024

The peregrine’s comeback was due to protection and the birds’ own powers of recovery. Peregrines don’t build nests of their own, but do like to make a scrape in which they can lay their eggs. They sometimes attempt to nest on unsuitably flat ledges, with the inevitable result that their eggs roll off.

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Falcons Feral Tenant Eggs 246

10,000 Birds

MAY 26, 2024

Pu blishing papers, articles, and books on birds aside, Clive is also a keen bird photographer. The chicks need six months to develop so the adults lay their eggs in January. All this changed with protection. Griffon Vultures have a long breeding season. So why are these Griffons arriving now? Isn’t it a bit late to breed?

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Africa Morocco Senegal 2003 246

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

Second they are reliant on Horseshoe Vetch on which they lay their eggs and on which the caterpillars feed. Ants guard and tend the caterpillars, offering protection against predators and herding them in the evenings to the warmth of the ground, even ‘tucking them in’ if the soil is loose enough to cover them over.

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Rabbits Ireland 2002 Sheep 178

10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2011

This happened to me recently on a birding trip, with somewhat egg-on-the-face results. A wide-open field in a wind-protected spot, recently visited by both mechanical and living manure-spreaders. I was on a birding quest trip with my friend Geoff Heeter. This was Snow Bunting heaven. The proposal from U.S.

2011 244

2011 Michigan Birds Ohio 244

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

The opening beautifully encapsulates the essence of the book. The book, like the opening scene, is a deft combination of her personal observations of birds most of us rarely see, in a wild place very few people have visited, and of the natural histories of these birds. Do I need to say anything more? And, this was badly needed.

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Fox Albatross Geese Bald Eagle 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2022

Wikipedia also has an interesting paragraph hinting at observation bias in ornithologists: “At the continental scale, saddle-billed storks preferred protected areas that have a higher extent of open water compared to areas without the storks. Studies on improving ostrich egg hatchability. Ostriches originated in Asia.

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Ostriches Parrots Eggs Africa 147

Animal Person

AUGUST 16, 2011

Most interesting for me was the mental lock most people have that we vegans are always looking to break or find the key to: Why do good people who understand what happens to animals for unnecessary products such as “steak” or eggs, continue to consume such things? 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.

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North America America 2006 Delaware 264

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

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

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

My knowledge of dinosaurs started and stopped with Jurassic Park (the movie, not the theme park), Patrick’s Dinosaurs, a charming book my daughter read in grade school, and, most recently, visits to the American Museum of Natural History with my nephews. These fossils are seen as proof that some dinosaurs brooded over its eggs.

Mongolia 242

Mongolia Reptiles Science Indiana 242

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

MAY 3, 2022

Fortunately, as I found out over the next four days, High Island, the Bolivar Peninsula, the whole east Texan Gulf coast area is a place of diverse habitats, some protected, some accidental, all offering fantastic avian opportunities. Corps of Engineers to protect Galveston Bay at the end of the 19th-century. It was amazing.

Houston 264

Houston Texas Sanctuary Sparrows 264

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. Sturdy plastic over the paperback covers and a ruler on the inside back cover clearly say that these books are designed to be used outdoors.

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Ireland France Breeding Eggs 232

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Three books will have been published about the Passenger Pigeon by the end of 2014: A Feathered River Across the Sky: The Passenger Pigeon’s Flight to Extinction by Joel Greenberg, The Passenger Pigeon by Errol Fuller, and A Message From Martha: The Extinction of the Passenger Pigeon and Its Relevance Today by Mark Avery.

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2014 Killing Michigan Kentucky 197

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Two epigraphs open Bernd Heinrich’s White Feathers: The Nesting Lives of Swallows, each so redolent of his work as a whole, not just this new book, that they deserve to be quoted, even in a mere review, in full. Here’s the question in this book: Tree swallows build their nests in tree cavities or manmade boxes.

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Eggs Bats Emotional 2020 147

10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2012

Wildlife conservation is concerned with protecting wildlife at the level of species or perhaps population. Each year tens of thousands of these gulls go to the islands and each pair will lay three eggs. Most of these clutches of eggs will hatch to produce three fluffy and adorable chicks.

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Animal Rights Rights Animal New Zealand 270

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 5, 2014

Another book, maybe a bird finding guide. Written by David Callahan and edited by Dominic Mitchell, the book originated as a series conceived by and written for Birdwatch magazine, a monthly magazine out of Great Britain. In birding, we like to think that we don’t need much ‘stuff’. Maybe a spotting scope. And a long lens camera.

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Mauritius Egypt Cyprus Collecting 186

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2022

An example is this study showing that indeed, cuckoo eggs are stronger than the eggs of the host species. Poor Britons – Brexit did not protect them from being invaded by birds from the continent. Here’s another cuckoo undergoing a pre-flight check. ” Lesson learned for all of us: do not cast spells on Zeus.

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China Birds Ukraine Killing 244

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Regardless, my suitcase always has binoculars and the relevant book for the region. Landing late in the evening made it necessary to book a guest house near the airport and I stayed in Okra House. The local community protects the swamp because it’s the home of their totem, the lungfish. Somehow, he doesn’t care.

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Uganda Netherlands Monkeys Portugal 246

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2021

This may have been partly a leftover from the Victorian fascination with egg collecting (the infamous passion known as oology), but probably more from people’s burgeoning interest in the nests and eggs found in their gardens and fields, gateway artifacts to a newer hobby called birdwatching. The Harrison guides are out of print.

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Eggs United States Sparrows Birds 264

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2021

Here are the picks of the 10,000 Birds reviewing team (Tristan, Donna, Dragan, Mike, Corey, Carrie, and Mark) for 2021 bird books and other things with high quality, uniqueness, and giftability. * There are lots of big, well-produced books with exquisite photos of birds from around the world. Tristan). ==. Dragan). ==. Donna). ==.

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Colombia Birds Bald Eagle Guyana 246

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The Crossley ID Guide: Waterfowl , by Richard Crossley, Paul Baicich, and Jessie Barry is the fourth book in the Crossley ID Guide series, and I think it is the best one yet. Answers are given at the back of the book, thank goodness. It also contains a unique feature that may not be accepted by some birders. But, more on that later. .

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Ducks Geese North America Hunters 178