10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

They may be about bird eggs ( The Most Perfect Thing: The Inside (and Outside) of a Bird’s Egg , 2016), or a 17th-century ornithologist ( Virtuoso by Nature: The Scientific Worlds of Francis Willughby, 2016), or How Bullfinches learn songs from humans ( The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology.

Dissection 222

Dissection Birds Research Europe 222

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. I also would have liked more specific information on the studies themselves–authors, years, where I can read them.

North America 278

North America Research Birds Groups 278

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The “Owls and Albatrosses” chapter, for example, begins with Doug’s personal experiences observing of the nesting strategies of Malleefowl and a Moluccan Megapode, Australasian “chickens who lay their eggs in unusual ways and do not parent. It’s a lot of information concentrated into 11 pages.

Science 217

Science Albatross Research Birds 217

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

The Juniper Titmouse ( Baeolophus ridgwayi ) is a passerine bird in the tit family Paridae. But a Bewick’s Wren did build a nest, which it promptly abandoned before laying any eggs. We at NestWatch are very excited that this group has burst onto the scene and quickly become our primary source of information about this species.

2017 155

2017 New Mexico Groups Abandoning 155

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Some other members of the shrike family were a bit less testosterone-driven at Nanhui – like this Bull-headed Shrike … … this rather attractive-looking Tiger Shrike … … or one of the many Brown Shrikes passing through Nanhui on migration. Then, I was not sure whether this was the right thing to do.

Birds 232

Birds LACS France Japan 232

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2018

There is not a slightest trace of asphalt, nor the promised sewage ponds, which may be good for the two Little Ringed Plover families incubating their eggs at the site as we speak, but is far from good for the people living there. And it gave me a sense of accomplishment. Only the future of that picture worries me.

Eagles 172

Eagles 2016 Birds Otters 172

10,000 Birds

MAY 25, 2023

The Journal “Advances in Ophthalmology & Visual System” is not a regular source for bird-related information. Confusingly, the HBW lists the species as Vulnerable and marks its conservation status as Not Globally Threatened (Least Concern) – a stronger focus on actual specific information might have been helpful.

Birds 130

Birds Raised Cattle Mammals 130

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2019

Peterson Reference Guide to Sparrows of North America covers 61 species of the New World sparrow family Passerellidae that breed in Canada, the United States, and northern Mexico. The book does not include House Sparrow, an Old World sparrow that belongs to a completely different bird family. Scope of Book.

North America 149

North America Sparrows America United States 149

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2012

Or, Pygmy leaf-folding frogs, Afrixalus brachycnemis, from Tanzania, tiny climbing frogs who lay their eggs in leaves and then fold the leaves over them for protection, sealing the nest with secretions. There is a large family of frogs, Bufonidae, that includes most of the warty, hoppy creatures we think of as toads.

Reptiles 185

Reptiles Madagascar Family New York City 185

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. It was a fascinating story to follow and the happy ending made it all the more touching, but a tiny bit of extra research brought even more exciting details of the secret life of the ‘blue’ family. The male is on the left.

Rabbits 155

Rabbits Ireland 2002 Sheep 155

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. Or that tortoises and terrapins are considered part of the turtle family. Lovich and Whit Gibbons.

Turtles 200

Turtles Family Tortoises Terrapins 200

10,000 Birds

JULY 1, 2014

Roth; the informative, graceful text is by Susan L. They cut down the trees the parrots used for nesting and brought black rats, who ate their eggs, and honeybees who swarmed into their nests, and by 1937 there were only about 2,000 Puerto Rican Parrots left. Roth and Cindy Trumbore. Other Europeans came. Roth and Cindy Trumbore.

Puerto Rico 235

Puerto Rico Parrots New York City 2013 235

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2015

But, not a lot of information about how this national passion (52.8 I also enjoyed reading the company histories of familiar brands like Duncraft, Kaytee, Droll Yankee, and Wagner all of which started as family companies, some as offshoots of other businesses, some as the result of clever inventions. million people in the U.S.

America 232

America Industry Birds Squirrels 232

10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2022

I saw two Pitta species at Hongbenghe, both among the slightly less glamourous among the pitta family: The Blue-naped Pitta … … and the closely related Rusty-naped Pitta. At first glance, the difference between the Black-hooded Oriole … … and the Black-naped Oriole is just that they use different makeup artists.

Birds 147

Birds Myanmar China Woodpeckers 147

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 2, 2014

Not a great place for a family vacation, though I think Duncan will disagree. Press, 2000) and the earlier The Birds of Hong Kong and South China (co-authored with Clive Viney and Lam Chiu Ying, Hong Kong Information Office, 2005). Species Accounts are grouped by family, following what appears to be Sibley and Monroe’s 1996 taxonomy.

Brunei 175

Brunei Birds Asia Family 175

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? An array of tools ranging from geolocators to satellite trackers to depth measurers to miniature cameras have been employed by ornithologists and biologists over the past twenty years, yielding scads of information.

Albatross 114

Albatross Penguins Research Breeding 114

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

It is organized taxonomically, with families identified by first scientific and then popular name. Each family section starts with a brief description of the birds within that family, their common physical and behavioral traits, and range of habitat. Richard ffrench died in 2010 at the age of 80.

Trinidad 197

Trinidad Birds South America Research 197

10,000 Birds

JULY 16, 2012

The boys knew what Owls looked like, they saw Screech Owls (and Barred and Great Horned Owls) at a local wildlife park, and we photographed Burrowing Owl families every year at Brian Piccolo Park. Some might contest this, saying that Dr. Seuss’s Horton Hatches An Egg precedes Eastman’s book by twenty years. Random House, 1960.

Birds 214

Birds Owls Switzerland Lions 214

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2013

And, in a very lovely section in the middle of the book, she describes the life cycle of the cahow, informing evocative passages about their nocturnal courtship and flight with recent research findings about how seabirds are able to function—eat, sleep, navigate home. This is a good read, informative and engaging.

Birds 168

Birds Rats Breeding 2012 168

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

The species are taxonomically divided into two families: Tytonidae, Barn-Owls, and Strigidae, Owls, encompassed in one order, Strigiformes. There is good reason for the interviews, beyond simply amassing information, and this becomes clear in the final chapter, the Afterward, about conservation. It’s a lot of work.

Owls 214

Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 214

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

But, unlike most books focused on a bird family, this one is organized geographically. Plantema gives highly detailed information about the weather, terrain, ownership of and access to the islands and coasts where penguins breed. The travel and species information are great, but it is the photographs that make this a special book.

Penguins 278

Penguins New Zealand Albatross Georgia 278

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

As you can easily judge from the dullness of this information, it is not something I made up but rather an appalling example of nepotism in the naming of birds. In providing this information, they quote extensively from an ornithology book that was published 3 years before I was born (and I am not a young man).

China 231

China Birds Eagles Pythons 231

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

It depicted a Common Loon ( Gavia immer ) sitting on eggs on a seemingly crude nest. John Livingston’s fresh and informative text makes the perfect complement to Lansdowne’s drawings.” To accompany this review I have added two of my photos of my favourite bird family, the New world warblers.

Birds 219

Birds Woodpeckers Canada Collecting 219

Critter News

OCTOBER 19, 2008

So are egg corporations. Thanks to an email from Farmed Animal Net for this information. These are not farming families, folks, but corporations as powerful and ruthless as anything on Wall Street. egg industry continues to consolidate. Proposed amendments to Canada’s Criminal Code have egg companies there worried.

Egg Industry 100

Egg Industry Industry Eggs Battery Cages 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2022

Wrynecks are fascinating because they are woodpeckers, taxonomically and evolutionarily, yet they do not share many behaviors and anatomical features of most members of the Picidae family. But they are woodpeckers: the genus Jynx of the subfamily Jynginae of the Picidae family. They are beautiful, but in a different way.

Woodpeckers 237

Woodpeckers Hungary Thailand 2014 237

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

And one that is easy to use, because, let’s face it, you want to spend most of your time looking at wildlife, not searching for information. Tall grass, grass in burnt areas, leaves stems, small mammals, large mammals, invertebrates, birds, bird eggs, even hyena feces (that’s the Leopard Tortoise). Such a great variety of food!

Rhinos 241

Rhinos Mammals Animal Reptiles 241

10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2022

I guess I would therefore usually not include them in this post were it not for the information below. According to an article in the Guardian , “nearly a quarter of black swan families are parented by homosexual couples, the males sometimes mating with a female simply to have a chick. Much cheaper than a brother or sister.

Birds 210

Birds China Pythons Breeding 210

10,000 Birds

JULY 17, 2012

A displaying Sunbittern close to Selva Verde Lodge, Costa Rica Secondly, Sunbitterns belong to a monotypic family, Eurypygidae. Already a shy bird, the Sunbittern takes secrecy to the next level when it comes to its family life. Few nests of this species have been located, with the majority in overgrown and inaccessible locations.

Costa Rica 256

Costa Rica Suriname Eggs Hunting 256

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 16, 2015

Each year Hog Island offers programs, taught by a stellar staff of naturalists and artists, to groups of all kinds (teenagers, adults, families). The process took eight years and has since been duplicated all over the world with a variety of species, explained one of our guides … the genial and informative Dr. Kress himself.

Puffins 257

Puffins Birds Groups West Virginia 257

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2017

The authors emphasize in the Introduction the great degree to which the text and illustrations are based on current scientific information. Within each group, birds in the same family are grouped together and birds in the same genus “usually occur consecutively.” 210-531), indicated by brown page tabs.

Australia 107

Australia Birds Penguins 2015 107

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. Harrison. (A Baicich and Colin J.

Eggs 233

Eggs Birds United States Sparrows 233

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2019

While growing up in western New York during the 70s and 80s, sure, we could have found some information, some illustrations of toucans at the local public library. Like crows and jays, they are social, vocal, intelligent, and omnivorous (including eating eggs and nestlings). Yes, this bird acts like a jay.

Costa Rica 177

Costa Rica Panama Eating Eggs South America 177

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

In the former, a female lays her fertilized egg in the nest of another species, in the hopes that her offspring will be raised by the unwitting hosts. There are two patterns that are fairly extreme that fall into this category: brood parasitism and helper-at-the-nest strategy.

Breeders 202

Breeders Breeding Birds Groups 202

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2012

There is overlap with its companion field guide, Dragonflies and Damselflies of the West (the current total number of odonate species in North America is 462), and Paulson has made an effort to limit the amount of duplication, using different photographs for overlapping species and updating species accounts with new information.

United States 234

United States Costa Rica Massachusetts North America 234

10,000 Birds

JUNE 24, 2024

There is not really much scientific information about the Laced Woodpecker , and the scientific species name vittatus (“banded, ribboned”) does not give me much to talk about either. No other information.” ” And why not. The HBW entry is basically a list of things not known about the bird: “Poorly known.

Vietnam 218

Vietnam Birds Woodpeckers Bangladesh 218

10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2019

Antpittas and Gnateaters covers 64 species in six genera and two families. (I Here’s Plate 3, the third plate for Conopophaga , one of the two genera of the Gnateater family. Most conveniently, we are given the page number of the species account for more–much more–information. Species Accounts.

Research 142

Research Eggs South America Species 142

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2013

The books (and, I assume the series) share a web-type design construct in which information is organized visually, by blocked colored spaces, bar separators, and size and color of font. The where and how of egg laying and larva emergence is briefly treated, with page references to larval drawings at the back of the book.

Ireland 174

Ireland France Breeding Eggs 174