10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2011

Astounding because she picked up birding before she could speak and surprising because this ability was definitely not inherited from anyone in my family, myself included. Thankfully there are several really excellent family board games that you can play as a whole family. Her natural talent was astounding and surprising.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Mark]: This luscious book, Penguins: The Ultimate Guide , by De Roy, Jones, and Cornthwaite, is the second edition of a book first published in 2015. Lees and Gilroy delineate vagrancy status and trends for every bird family worldwide, highlighting examples, synthesizing research, and framing it all with their own thoughts and conclusions.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 17, 2019

One of the highlights of the trip for me was seeing penguins for the first time. Of course, I’ve seen live penguins in zoos before, but these were real, honest-to-goodness (and countable!) members of the family Spheniscidae. The can art depicts a long line of penguins in single file, extending all the way back to the horizon.

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India Penguins San Diego Peru 113

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2011

As our hardcore group of birding attendees- will dwindle at some point, other groups perhaps more interested in the actors or a segment of more family oriented viewers will then take over from us. Winged Migration , March of the Penguins , and Pale Male each made money for the producers. “Hold it,” you stammer.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 12, 2011

Jean Loscalzo is a penguin buff (Can you blame her?) and would love to watch Rockhopper Penguins. My Brazilian wish bird would be Rockhopper Penguin: raucous, feisty birds with really cool haircuts, a sort of disheveled yellow-black shaggy look that they wear well. See who won the contest here! Get yours today!

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 7, 2011

I then flew south to Sydney to have the weekend with my sister and family. George, who is 5, said that I should be the mummy penguin and he would be the baby penguin for the weekend. I flew out of Broome and across the Northern Territory and Queensland and changed planes in Brisbane.

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South Korea Penguins Sharks Singapore 160

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 26, 2021

I did that with Peacocks & Picathartes – Reflections on Africa’s birdlife (published by Penguin Random House South Africa ). The rest of the 216 pages long book is devoted to various African bird families and half a dozen individual species. When was the last time you chose a book by its covers?

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Vagrants are rare but this miserable Emperor Penguin did wash up once. Any birder seeking every bird family on Earth would have to come here, as no less than six bird families are endemic – the kiwis, New Zealand parrots, New Zealand wrens, Stichbird, wattlebirds and mohouas (more families formerly found here are sadly now lost).

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New Zealand Albatross Parrots Penguins 157

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2019

Clearly, author Phyllis Limbacher Tildes, the author of 24, soon to be 25, children’s books, is also a birder (and a little research brings up a presentation she gave at Ogeechee Audubon, Georgia with the biographical information and she and her family “love watching birds and wildlife seen near their lagoon on Skidaway Island.”

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New York City Pelicans Penguins New York 201

10,000 Birds

JULY 14, 2011

This group includes the Suliformes , Pelecaniformes (as newly redefined), storks, tubenoses, penguins, loons , and perhaps tropicbirds. The relationships among these families have been pretty well sorted out, and the entire clade belongs in a clade of landbirds ( passerines, parrots, diurnal raptors, mousebirds, owls , etc.)

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Madagascar Louisiana Penguins Germany 187

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. Not about the City of Brotherly Love, not about the Steelers or Penguins, but about forests with deer, birds, and elbow room. “Check it out!” Fred talked to us now and then about the wild and wooded state.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2018

Scientists were largely limited to studies birds in breeding colonies, at least those we knew about and that were accessible (and, if you think that’s a complete list, you haven’t read the news that came out this week about a new colony of Adélie penguins found in the Danger Islands, Antarctica). The penguin fanatics.

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Albatross Penguins Research Breeding 127

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Cape Rockjumpers, like their Drakensberg cousins , are highly social, so after the excitement of finding one a little bit up towards the cliff suddenly a family was around us, calling, bouncing and fighting their way around the low vegetation. A terrible shot of a Cape Rockjumper.

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South Africa Penguins Africa Whaling 124

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Birkhead talks about John Gould in several contexts, including a portrait of him and his family and his bird skins by John Everett Millais, reproduced in the color plates section, the only mention of Elizabeth is her co-authorship with John Gould, of another color plate, ‘Comb-crested Jacana.’ Princeton Univ.

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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. Apparently, species like Sand Martins and Emperor Penguins develop distinct parent-child vocalizations. © 2021 Barbara Ballentine and Jeremy Hyman & Quarto Publishing.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 26, 2019

Why this one city alone would be named for birds, in this country of 1,800 species, is unclear, but it could very well be a designation inspired by the nearby Islas Ballestas, an uninhabited island group just offshore from Pisco and home to enormous breeding colonies of Humboldt Penguins , Inca Terns , Peruvian Boobies , and many other species.

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Peru San Francisco Parrots Chile 178

10,000 Birds

JUNE 29, 2011

The Gods of Birding, being both capricious and wrathful, decided to punish my insolence by washing up an Emperor Penguin on the coasts of the island upon which I make my home. Which brings us back to the Emperor Penguin. Besides, it’s an Emperor Penguin. This was not initially a problem for me. But the thing was news.

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Penguins New Zealand Zoos Hunting 210

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

— penguins. But genetic and morphological data both point to this conclusion, and additional evidence places tubenoses and penguins within a group recently dubbed Aequornithes, or “higher waterbirds.” Four families are often recognized: storm-petrels, albatrosses, shearwaters and petrels , and diving-petrels.

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Albatross Penguins New Zealand Japan 240

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Next, band names referring to individual birds or bird families. The Bowerbirds are an American independent-folk band as well as an Australian bird family. The bird family, however, is not. A surfin’ bird ( African Penguin , Boulders Beach, South Africa). I am sure you can easily imagine this as a PowerPoint slide.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 14, 2014

First off, it seems that New Zealand’s two iconic families of ratites, large flightless southern birds that includes emus, rhea, ostriches, cassowaries and the extinct elephant birds, are not particularly closely related. With the arrival of the Maori the secret penguin was, unfortunately, wiped out.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Scientifically, of course, they all belong to the extended family of Larsonidae. It is even a bit doubtful whether the titmouse is a true Larsonidae – ongoing genetic research may result in the species being reassigned to the separate family of cute birds instead (Adorabilae ).

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China Birds Penguins Asia 264

10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2023

A description of the parenting habits of Emperor Penguins begins the lengthy chapter, “Family Matters,” about Chris’s difficult, intense relationship with his father. A trip to Nepal with a non-birding boyfriend, with the goal of climbing the Himalaya to the foot of Mt.

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Emotional Birds Nepal Minneapolis 230

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2022

A family motel and passion for responsible ecotourism brought her home to the Oregon Coast where she and her husband, Erik, adventure and record a podcast ( Hannah and Erik Go Birding ), created in an effort to inspire others to get out and bird. Southern Rockhopper Penguin.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2014

I’m in Sydney for a week of family, birding, diving and enjoying the subtropical climate. Blue Penguin. Actually known as Fairy Penguins in Australia, this species can be found attracting attention by the ferry terminal in Manly most nights in the breeding season. Pick up a Penguin! Do you feel like a Galah ?

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Penguins Pelicans Parrots Australia 255

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2020

They portray the nesting cycles of Mallard, Red-tailed Hawk, and American Robin, illustrating the various ways in which birds create families. Do they have families too and do they take care of them? Some of the chapters focus on a specific bird, most are about bird families like hawks, tanagers, wrens, etc.,

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

Who cares if they nest in the Antarctic and eat penguins? If you misidentify something, you bring great shame and dishonor to both you and your family. . “They are much more interesting on television than in person” – Martha C. South Polar Skua. “This bird struck me as weak and mundane. Red-footed Booby.

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Puffins Penguins Albatross California 250

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

There’s a King Penguin ( Aptenodytes patagonicus ) on the label, a very first appearance for the Spheniscidae family here at Birds and Booze. The emperor – er, King – has no clothes: this penguin seems to have misplaced its jumper. Time for another bottle of red wine to get us through to spring.

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2017 Penguins Argentina Chile 113

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Considering this adherence to scientific accuracy, it is intriguing that the authors have put aside a taxonomic form of organization and have instead opted for “a pragmatic field guide sequence… that groups bird families according to the broad biomes in which they are most likely to be encountered—marine, freshwater and terrestrial…” (p.2).

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The inner side of the front cover contains the visual Quick Reference with paintings of one representative of the family followed by the relevant page number. The next page contains an alphabetical Quick Reference. Sasol has largely retained the traditional ordering system, familiar to the majority of birders.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 24, 2011

To compound his urgency, he had a new family to feed, so Mr Merula went fishing. Don’t be silly, you’ll be likening it to a grebe or a penguin next! The worms that would have traditionally made up the thrush’s diet were baked into the soil and he needed to explore other feeding strategies.

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Blackbirds Fish Penguins Sanctuary 210

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Into the Nest: Intimate Views of the Courting, Parenting, and Family Lives of Familiar Birds (Storey Publishing, 2015) by photographer Marie Read and writer Laura Erickson, documents the procreative and parenting lives of 49 species through beautiful images and readable, knowledgeable text. So, Happy Holidays to all!

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Papua New Guinea Penguins 2014 Guinea 190

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

This is followed by tales of birds like Barn Owls and Rockhopper Penguins, whose over-reproductive habits practically guarantee that some nestlings will die. If this wasn’t a book about science, I’d say that it was deliberately planned by the nature gods to encourage birding tourism.) 70) is adorable as well as educational.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 7, 2012

Then go to the Atacama Desert where Humboldt penguins raise families in the driest place on earth. Witness male gentoo penguins perform mating jigs to attract females. Race along with mustangs in the Great Basin desert as one outcast male fights toregain his place in the herd. Untamed Americas: Coasts.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2011

Itcher birds, migratory members of the tern family. A fascinating exception to this, of course, are penguins. The idea was to see if those without magnets taped to their heads got less lost then those with the magnets. People were doing things like that with birds, sharks, and humans. Specifically, Itcher Tern. Image source.

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Compassion Humane Research Egypt 249

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

In some instances the names old names were given to new birds of familiar types in error ( American Robins are actually thrushes, and New World sparrows are really buntings), but in many other instances these names were applied to entirely new families and genera. Another long time mystery bird, or pair of birds, were the piopio.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

Not, as Linneaus thought, an ostrich, nor even, as later scientists concluded, a distant cousin of pigeons deserving of family rank, it was an honest-to-goodness pigeon, deeply embedded within the family Columbidae. For much more, see The history of the Dodo Raphus cucullatus and the penguin of Mauritius (PDF).

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2020

I should add that the Big Owls taking over NYC social and even hard print media, dominating conversations with my nonbirder friends and family, are not the only owls in the five boroughs, but like a musical, the closer you are to Broadway, the closer you are to fame and fortune (and maybe even a higher quality rodent for dinner, who knows?).

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