10,000 Birds
AUGUST 27, 2020
It seems to me that Lynx Edicions must know Vedran, too, and it was with him in mind that their authors, David W Winkler, Shawn M Billerman and Irby J Lovette, chose the “Bird Families of the World: A Guide to the Spectacular Diversity of Birds” as the full title of their new edition. Families perhaps? It weighs 3.7
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 3, 2013
Which is why I am so excited about the publication of the Peterson Reference Guide to Seawatching: Eastern Waterbirds in Flight , by Ken Behrens and Cameron Cox, the latest title of the Peterson Reference Guides series published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. The book is fairly large (10.4
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10,000 Birds
JANUARY 20, 2013
Some scientists have lumped them all into one enormous family (e.g., Sibley and Monroe 1990), but more often, they have been treated as several families. This approach, though, has lead to much confusion over which birds belong in which families (remember when we learned that Piranga tanagers are actually cardinals ?),
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 18, 2012
What is up with the birding community in the northern part of the US recently? Have we all gone completely mental?
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 3, 2023
I am puzzled as to why Gulls and Terns are almost passed over, with less than two pages of text devoted to a family description and only six species accounts (four gulls, two terns). Family follows family with no page break, making this section a little dense. Woodpeckers are a family of focus for Tuttle-Adams.
10,000 Birds
JULY 11, 2012
This question usually comes from people living in urban areas and in reference to Ruby-throated Hummingbirds (that’s a male in the above photo). ” I used to say they were the Murphy Brown of the bird world, but my husband advises me against using such a dated reference.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 29, 2013
Robins are one of those taxonomically confusing terms, like bunting or grosbeak or warbler, that are applied to groups of birds in different, often disparate, families. In the New World, the birds we call “robins” are deep-bellied, melodious-voiced, thrushes of the genus Turdus.
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