10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2021

This is the charm of Lima’s book. Marybeth learns as she birds, embraces listing goals as a means of engaging with community, unabashedly enjoys a little competition, struggles to balance her absolute joy in birding with unexpected, life-and-death family obligations. But, in Chapter Three the book takes on more shape.

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Louisiana Species Mississippi Alabama 264

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2020

Fortunately, with a prescience that’s a little scary, David Allen Sibley has created a book perfect for beginning birders (and the rest of us): What It’s Like to Be a Bird: From Flying to Nesting, Eating to Singing–What Birds Are Doing, and Why. copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley. copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley.

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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.

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Science Albatross Research Owls 210

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

The full title of this exceptional book by Marie Read is Mastering Bird Photography: The Art, Craft, and Technique of Photographing Birds and Their Behavior. In this new book, she puts everything she has learned in over 30 years of wildlife photography down in writing.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

This is the book you will want to give to everyone in your life who has said ‘I’d like to bird too, but ….(fill Not only is Nate a birding and blogging colleague, but Mike Bergin, 10,000 Birds co-publisher, has written the Foreword and I have been threatened with all sorts of birder-type punishment if I give this book a bad review.

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North Carolina Birds North America Owls 263

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2014

It took me a while to wrap my mind around the concept of Birds and People , Mark Cocker and David Tipling’s book that, in 592 pages, explores the intersection of just that—birds and us. Still, I found it a little disjointing that a book has been written about our relationship with birds. So, I just sit here, amazed at this book.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2019

It’s never too late or too early to buy a children’s book about birds. It’s been a few years since my last roundup of children’s bird books, and children’s book writers, illustrators and publishers continue to produce picture books that feature avian protagonists. First, the board books.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Two books, two authors, two countries bursting with neotropical avian diversity. Since the books share authors and a creation process, I thought I would review them together. Steve Howell has spent decades of experience in the field studying the birds of Belize, Costa Rica, and especially Mexico. Birds of Belize by Steve N.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2015

GISS—general impression, size, shape—is intuitive, the result of an unconscious cognitive process derived from experience in the field. The result is a different kind of book. The main question for me isn’t whether this is indeed a revolutionary approach, but rather: what does this book offer that is different? .*

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New Jersey Birds Science New York City 169

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 2, 2021

It had perhaps 20 or so species per plate, and a rather concise description on the opposite (left) page, but all maps were grouped in the end of the book, making it very impractical to check them and in order to use the checklist, you had to know what to expect and which species are unlikely. The book covers all the world’s birds.

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Botswana Africa Ecuador Birds 242

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Each species account starts with names–family name at the top of the page, followed below by English name of the species, alpha code, scientific name, local name in Cuba and the standard name as accepted by the Sociedad Española de Ornitología (SEO). The book includes lots of space for Notes. There is even room for notes.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2019

And the book is about much more, ripple effects from what happens when part of a living thing becomes the central ingredient to a highly visual, social, profitable business. I did often wonder while reading the book whether the result equaled the effort. The late Victorian age was not a good time to be an egret!

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10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2019

But, sometimes an appreciation of birds and birding requires more than a reference book with images of birds and facts about their identifying field marks. There are large avian handbooks and small ‘how-to bird’ guides, and quite a few excellent books of both types have been published. And, each essay tells a story.

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North America Birds Prairie Dogs Barn Owls 115

10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2020

Suzie wrote about her experiences as a bird rehabber in Flyaway: How A Wild Bird Rehabber Sought Adventure and Found Her Wings (2009) and used those experiences as the source for her fictional children’s book, Hawk Hill (1996). How did you come up with the idea for the book? The book is darkly funny.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2018

It is not a book for every birder, but it will be a fascinating read for those who love albatrosses, shearwaters, petrels, storm-petrels–you know, tubenoses–as well as penguins, gannets, cormorants, and pretty much every bird family that spends most of its life at sea. Bruce Pearson is the book illustrator.

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Albatross Penguins Research Breeding 114

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 22, 2020

I was lucky to visit India several times, but as a keen birder I carried along only a bird book, and even upgraded it to a new edition between the trips. I clearly needed a mammal book. Despite depicting 540 species/56 families, it is a lightweight book of 173 pages, easy to pack and carry.

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Mammals Asia Sri Lanka Bhutan 175

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2015

There is a long list of articles and books on how to feed birds in your yard. So, I was happy to see the publication of a book on all aspects of wild bird feeding—history, culture, and economics. It is a serious book with a friendly attitude. There was cleaning, lots of cleaning of feeders and yard. And squirrels.

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America Squirrels Industry Birds 227

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2023

It is home to four diverse forest ecosystems (deciduous, mixed, boreal, and lowlands), experiences seasonal weather systems ranging from cold dry Arctic winters to humid, thunder-storm filled summers, and, according to the latest official checklist, hosts four professional sports teams with bird names.* state and Canadian provinces.

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North America Birds Owls Canada 207

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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10,000 Birds

JUNE 29, 2020

As we close the book on the first half of one of the wildest years in recent memory, we can only hope the next half delivers a lot more happiness, health, and prosperity. However, my best birds showed up much closer to home in the form of a chattering House Wren family which apparently displaced my usual Carolina Wren.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 24, 2020

Birding in Trinidad and Tobago has been likened to an introductory chapter in the book of birding in the Neotropics. Each of the three belongs to a separate genus within the family and as such occupies a different position within the forest. And for good reason. T&T has three resident species of manakins. Blue-backed Manakin.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 17, 2020

That piece of information, along with many others, comes from Kroodsma’a new book, Birdsong for the Curious Naturalist : Your Guide to Listening — and you have to love the “nearly.” And that’s part of the point of the book, and its charm – how much there is still to be discovered in the realm of birdsong. Except he doesn’t!

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10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2017

That sentence really doesn’t begin to describe this very smart and highly readable book. The ‘little green book’ was now over 450 pages long! Photographic credits are given with each photo, which I like better than a listing at the back of the book. Press, 2011). Please–do not read this section only!

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South America Ecuador Reptiles America 148

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

It’s time for some short book reviews. Two books are part of series I’ve reviewed previously (and you may want to reread those posts for more detailed info), one is a handbook that I’ve been wanting to review for a long time, but thought that a shorter piece would work better than the long ones I always seem to end up doing here.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

I have visited my local landfill for the last seven years, usually several times per winter, only to recently stumble upon a book called the Landfill! here and here ), Tim Dee devoted an entire book to it and I just had to read it. ” Landfill often made me wander off into some half-forgotten gulling experience of mine.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2022

edited by the Pasadena Audubon Society, with illustrations by Catherine Hamilton and photographs by many, are two very different books. How do you craft a description of a common bird like American Robin that’s unique, especially when you’re writing the 19th book of a series?

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Los Angeles Birds District of Columbia Parrots 192

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2016

This is a very good thing; it means they publish a lot of books about birds (probably more at this point than U.S. This is a hefty book, 560 pages long and dimensions of 6.3 The book’s organization reflects the authors’ goal of making this a guide accessible to birders of all levels and skill.

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Ireland Birds Falcons Turtles 142

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

It’s my fantasy and it’s yours: Quit the job, say good-bye to the family, and bird. This is the birding adventure book supreme. I’m reading a book about a man who is doing a Pitta Big Year,” I say. The Jewel Hunter belongs to a singular niche, the Big Year/Big Lifelist book. It’s what I dream of every Monday morning.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 1, 2017

Business journalist Aimee Groth lived through the first three years of Hsieh’s “community as a startup” experiment. The book is a fun read. SMM: You quit a job at Business Insider and moved to Las Vegas to research this book. His family members and close friends all work for him. SMM : The story is fascinating.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Family-owned since 1972, the property’s first guests were volcanologists from the Smithsonian Institute. When the researchers returned home during their time off, they would tell their friends and family about the magic of this place, and year after year more and more people began arriving.

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Costa Rica Reptiles Mammals Research 153

10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2021

Groups them by family too and by their shape” His extra long arm extended and passed me that precious book. ” Ever the skilled craftsman, Fred had personalized the tome with Velcro and a supple leather book strap. One such surprising experience happened with grouse. “Check it out!”

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Costa Rica Chickens Pennsylvania Litter 264

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

This may not bode well for kids still blessedly unencumbered by homework, books, and teachers’ dirty looks, but the birders among us can look forward to a marked improvement in avian action in September. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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2019 Costa Rica Pelicans Birds 121

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

The Species Accounts section takes up the body of the book, and is arranged taxonomically according to the AOU Check-list of North American Birds, Checklist & Supplements through 2017 (with a small number of exceptions, the Introduction notes). SPECIES ACCOUNTS. Similar species are noted. 11) and physical maps (p.20).

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America El Salvador Costa Rica Honduras 213

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2019

Many people are buying or downloading free bird ID apps, consequently narrowing the market niche and increasing the prices of paper books. Yet, going through the pages of a book is an irreplaceable experience. Talking of eBird, why don’t they show users the list of the bird families they observed?

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Costa Rica Birds Greece Colombia 135

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 9, 2018

Another weekend in the books means that this calendar year is almost over. Car troubles keep shutting my birding plans down, but at least I got out with the family to cut down our Christmas tree. 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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2018 Jamaica Birds Wildlife 113

4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 18, 2010

I recently got a chance to read a book called Scent of the Missing: Love and Partnership with a Search-and-Rescue Dog. The book is an amazing and heartfelt look at the unique partnership and bond that search and rescue dogs have with their handlers. The book follows the story of Susannah and her dog Puzzle. Past experience?

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10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2022

Last month I took the boat back to Trinidad as I was booked to guide a trip there for a week and a half. A number of families exist on Trinidad but not Tobago. Most notably the family of New World Vultures. Both Black and Turkey Vultures dominate the skies on the larger island; any vulture seen on Tobago is a reportable species.

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