10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2018

Here in New York City, May is a magic time for birders as the migration floodgates open. To celebrate spring migration, I usually review an exciting new bird book. And, to be fair, many field guides don’t list families or other groupings in their Table of Contents; it’s something my librarian mind doesn’t understand.).

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North America America Oklahoma Missouri 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2019

Fitting, since New York City and London were the centers of the millinery trade. As a librarian and women’s studies scholar, I greatly appreciate the research. This photograph of a family working on feathers while the father looks on is from the National Child Labor Committee Photograph series taken by Lewis Hine.

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Industry Virginia Portland Campaign 118

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

Found throughout South America in ever-dwindling numbers these extremely beautiful birds – threatened by habitat destruction and collection for the wild bird trade – are often difficult to see and hard to find. Community conservation – valuing what’s around us Kokako and Kaka on Kapiti Guano Still Collected in Peru.Or

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Peru Parrots 2011 South America 254

10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 2011

Golf courses, swimming pools, restaurants and a diverse collection of accommodation options. Universities like Harvard, Columbia and Cornell regularly use the research facility. Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds The New York Times and Tweety have it absolutely correct. This is not a birding lodge.

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Dominican Republic 2011 Birds Deer 184

10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2015

It is not a handbook, though it approaches species from a collective viewpoint. Like other books that have published lately (the Crossley Guides, by one of Karlson’s The Shorebird Guide co-authors, come immediately to mind), it aims to provide an alternative, maybe new, way of thinking about bird identification. .*

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Birds New Jersey Science Groups 169

10,000 Birds

JULY 1, 2014

I enjoy collecting children’s books about birds and nature that I come across in the expected (book stores) and unexpected (academic library conference reports) places. Eggbert side notes that the most famous bird in New York City is not a falcon, it is a Red-tailed Hawk named Pale Male. Roth and Cindy Trumbore.

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Puerto Rico Parrots New York City 2013 232

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 26, 2021

And apart from local people, primate researchers sometimes spot it, but it is a species seen by fewer than ten living birders. The rest of the 216 pages long book is devoted to various African bird families and half a dozen individual species. He has authored several other books and many articles, largely on natural history.

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Congo Africa South Africa Kenya 264

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

Jennifer Ackerman points out in the introduction to What the Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds , that we don’t know much, but that very soon we may know a lot more. What the Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds is a joyous, fascinating read.

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Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 208

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

I realized a curious thing while researching some of the creatures in this guide–some of the common names given for the flying fish appear to have originated with co-author Steve N.G. Howell; I can’t find them anywhere else on the Internet. George is also the co-author of last month’s book, Better Birding , and a friend.

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Pennsylvania Texas Whales Whaling 164

10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2011

Collectively, they’re referred to as the Herring Gull complex. He caught the itch, so to speak, when he arrived at Sapsucker Woods in Ithaca, New York, and he refined his birding skills with the Lab of Ornithologys Spring Field Ornithology course. This wiki looks good too.] RECENT POSTS More Habitat for Snowy Plover?

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2011 Cyprus Species Deer 157

10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2015

The refuge offers opportunities for hiking and biking trails, canoeing and kayaking on Swan Lake, bank fishing, and family friendly programs and events.” New Jersey/New York. The only answer I can come up with is that they collect fees from those users and view them as their only source of revenue.

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Fish Wildlife Hunting Game 143

10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2018

He roots the theft in the history of collecting bird skins, in the brief life history of Edwin Rist, in the secretive world of classic fly tying, and in his own efforts to follow up on a police investigation that got the man but not all of the loot. And, rage and frustration.

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Collecting Iraq Ostriches Science 103

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2022

(Famously, the Blackburnian was the spark bird for notable birder Phoebe Snetsinger; it was also the spark bird for my friend Marylee,) Without warblers, migrant hotspots like the Ramble in New York City’s Central Park would be empty in May. He has been birding since he was a kid, led birding trips across the U.S.

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United States North America Species 2013 211

10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2024

Elizabeth spent two years in Australia, traveling there with John and her oldest son, then living with acquaintances and relatives in Tasmania, Sydney, and Yarrundi while John traipsed across the continent shooting birds, collecting skins. It’s a clunky system that only works IF you know the full name of the bird you are researching.

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Australia Birds Europe Collecting 185

10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2013

(Famously, the Blackburnian was the spark bird for notable birder Phoebe Snetsinger; it was also the spark bird for my friend Marylee,) Without warblers, migrant hotspots like the Ramble in New York City’s Central Park would be empty in May. He has been birding since he was a kid, led birding trips across the U.S.

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United States North America Species New York 236

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 15, 2019

In order to establish a new Abwehr network, in August 1941 Popov was displaced to New York, where he rented a Fifth Avenue penthouse, bought a car to match and partied with the rich and famous of the time, including dating a Hollywood star Simone Simon ( * , ** ). That agent’s name was Ian Lancaster Fleming.

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Saint Kitts and Nevis Antigua and Barbuda Dominican Republic Cuba 156

10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2023

Its goal was to limit the greedy collecting of birds killed for the plume trade, the bird meat trade (as in the wholesale slaughter of the Passenger Pigeon), and for sport (again, the Passenger Pigeon and declining numbers of waterfowl). .” But this is not a hagiography.

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Connecticut Washington Legislation Hunting 147