10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2014

This research suggests that the boom isn’t due to an influx of newcomers, but rather because more local birds are flourishing and successfully rearing families. If there is one silver lining to all of this gloomy news, it’s that the efforts of birders truly make a difference in helping to advance science.

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Woodpeckers Illinois Chicago Kentucky 273

10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2021

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. The book focuses on two listing events: her 2012 Louisiana Big Year and her 2016 Louisiana 300 Year.

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Louisiana Species Mississippi Alabama 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 197

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 9, 2011

Here is a sample of a chapter, “Ratites & Tinamous”, from the Birds in Order section. Or browse or sample if that be your reading style. Intriguing, isn’t it? General information, like an explanation of taxonomic structure, is juxtaposed next to the specific. by Princeton University Press.

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Albatross Campaign Protection Birds 190

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2014

The magnificent history and diversity of birds on Earth came into sharper focus this month with the publication of 28 new scientific papers in Science and other journals. ’s bird family tree in a new tab and follow along as you read. American Flamingo photo by Dick Culbert). In 2008, Nick Sly published a review of Hackett et al.

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Family Parrots 2014 Birds 279

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Their taxonomic affinities have caused great confusion and debate amongst ornithologists; they were originally assigned to the thrush family, then Old World warblers before being shifted to babblers (the last mentioned a common dumping-ground for any aberrant passerines).

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South Africa Lesotho Swaziland Africa 212

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2024

for a sample of more than 800 species ( source ). But I can assure you that just as many men, whose profound knowledge of the natural sciences is known to the world and who are by no means enemies of sensible innovations, also consider the path I have taken to be quite expedient. – Obviously, there is no reason to complain about this.

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