10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2020

With things being what they are in 2020, there’s been no shortage of pundits on cable news and social media, there to proffer opinions on politics, the pandemic, and other pressing topics of our age on the 24-hour news cycle. And, for whatever reason, there’s even a pundit on our featured bottle of wine this week – at least in name.

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It’s an adaptive necessity to challenge a perceived invader right now – it takes only seconds for most birds to mate, so a territory holder, like this one, below left, can’t allow another male to linger: But phenotype and extended phenotype (physical appearance and behavior) – are inextricably bound, and much of Kricher’s book addresses the former.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2013

If you get the answer correct and no one else does then Princeton University Press, who kindly agreed to provide a copy of The Crossley ID Guide: Britain & Ireland , will mail it to you! ” Easy, right? signed copies right here ! Finally, on 21 November there will be a live online happy hour chat with the authors.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Text is on the left, plates are on the right. He talks about how he approaches bird illustration in an article on the Princeton University Press web site, and it’s worth reading to get a sense of how much work has gone into these images. The images on the right, from the Peru field guide, are more intense in color.

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Plus, the time was finally right for me to savor a local slice of that southern Snowy Owl invasion. The bad news was that it had flown away right before we arrived, but the good news is that it hadn’t traveled far.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2009

This via the ALF Press Office : As he left his car parked in a garage on campus, he was whistling and had no idea he had been followed. We preceded to vandalize his shiny new Audi, paid for with blood money.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Egyptian tomb painting depicting duck hunting in the marshes, from the eBook version of Birds and Us, © 2022, Tim Birkhead and Princeton University Press. The drawing on the left is from 1714, the one on the right is the result of Birkhead’s own dissection. Press, August 2022, 496pp., Great Flamingo tongues & heads: p.

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Press, 2000), and updated in terms of taxonomy, status, and distribution. Silhouettes along the border of the right-hand page depict the shape of the bird from different angles (a huge aid to those of us who end up with photos against the light). Press in 2003. Garrido and Arturo Kirkconnell (Cornell Univ. Garrido, et al.,

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OCTOBER 2, 2012

Hawkwatches on the northern half of the Appalachians get a lot of press. There’s Hawk Mountain, Pennsylvania, of course, and that little known Cape May place in New Jersey, not to mention others like Fort Smallwood in Maryland and even Fort Tilden in Queens, New York, which gets some press on the occasions that Corey swings by.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

They are sized variably, often filling both pages with a series of story-telling images like the Southern Rockhoppers walking right, then left, then a single individual jumping down, or taking our breath away in a single image spread out over two pages. It is not always easy to get the right color in printed photographs. Press, 2011).

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DECEMBER 2, 2021

And the paintings are just the right thing to dream over on long winter evenings. 656 pages, 301 colour plates with 25,000 illustrations HarperCollins Publishers, London, September 2021 (in United States: Princeton University Press, 2021) ISBN 9780008173999. The author’s decision was the IOC list, version 8.2

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OCTOBER 9, 2014

Who worries about a cow, right? Luckily, nobody was hurt, and once the moment passed, we roundly agreed that the mad cow attack was one of the most memorable parts of our press trip. Well, we Bronx boys are naturally suspcious of livestock, for reasons I still don’t understand.

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AUGUST 4, 2013

Therefore I have decided to right my wrong by providing first and foremost some avian eye candy, and not talk. As a matter of fact, one might surmise that I have merely instrumantalized a few images of a wet magpie to let loose a relentless rant about our weather. Seriously, they hate our guts.

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JANUARY 26, 2023

In field guides I’ve seen many beautiful gull paintings, where I couldn’t help asking myself: however alluring they may be, is the JIZZ just right? Princeton University Press (April 5, 2022) Paperback: ? Yet, there is one group of birds where even I prefer photographs: gulls. Or slightly off? Dubois, and Frédéric Jiguet Publisher: ?

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Yet they also bring up questions, which I’m going to talk about right now before diving into the specifics of the guides themselves. I think we do have the right to expect that artwork and species descriptions when repeated are current, reflect recent studies and taxonomic thought. © 2023 by Steve N. Howell and Dale Dyer.

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MARCH 11, 2013

Confusing, right? Photos from The Crossley ID Guide: Raptors used with the kind permission of Princeton University Press as part of the 2013 Raptor Blog Tour. How about the fact that a Blackhawk is not a Black Hawk? One might even say that a Blackhawk is not actually a Blackhawk or that a Black Hawk may be a different Black Hawk.

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OCTOBER 25, 2021

To quote the HBW “Prefers to run, rather than to fly, from potential danger, but will take to the air if hard-pressed” (again a good time to recommend you to look up the “Stupid Birds” Gary Larson cartoon online ). Rufous-necked Snowfinches can look very photogenic with the right background.

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MARCH 21, 2011

Wicked, right? Congratulations to them and many thanks to the many, many participants of each phase of this fun, fun, fun giveaway as well as Richard Crossley and our friends at Princeton University Press ! Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds The New York Times and Tweety have it absolutely correct. Hat-tip to Stella.

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JANUARY 3, 2023

So, I was intrigued when I saw that Comstock Publishing, an arm of Cornell University Press, was publishing Baby Bird Identification: A North American Guide by Linda Tuttle-Adams. Comstock Publishing Associates/Cornell University Press, October 2022. And one more thing, readers of 10,000 Birds–A Happy, Health, Birdy New Year!

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APRIL 26, 2013

I pressed on back into Holywell itself. Day Two: On the second day, I got off to an early start at Ecclesdown Road in the northeast corner of the island, flushing a Crested Quail-Dove right near the beginning. Like magic, a dark bird flew into a tall tree right beside the road. and called in a pair of Jamaican Becards.

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MARCH 20, 2011

Congratulations to them and many thanks to the many, many participants of each phase of this fun, fun, fun giveaway as well as Richard Crossley and our friends at Princeton University Press ! Wicked, right? If you didn’t win a free copy of The Crossley ID Guide: Eastern Birds , better go buy a copy. Hat-tip to Stella.

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DECEMBER 11, 2023

The second, even more pressing area is female education. I did not actually go to Afghanistan for birding. I had another reason for that, trying to support a local NGO and its projects to educate Afghan women – something that is extremely important due to the current Taliban ban on female education past 6th grade.

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DECEMBER 2, 2014

Press), which Mike reviewed in 2009 , is the one most people will be comparing it to), by a view of birds that encompasses their habitat and ecology. There are two-page spreads with a list of birding sites, map coordinates, and bird descriptions on the left and full-page maps on the right, showing roads and routes linking the sites.

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MARCH 19, 2011

Wicked, right? Congratulations to them and many thanks to the many, many participants of each phase of this fun, fun, fun giveaway as well as Richard Crossley and our friends at Princeton University Press ! Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds The New York Times and Tweety have it absolutely correct. Hat-tip to Stella.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 7, 2020

Skinner observed that the act of a random reward triggered the most dramatic changes in their actions: "The mice would press a lever and sometimes they’d get a small treat, other times a large treat, and other times nothing at all. Reward for the right reasons. How to start applying this to your sales team.

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MARCH 21, 2011

Wicked, right? Wicked, right? Congratulations to them and many thanks to the many, many participants of each phase of this fun, fun, fun giveaway as well as Richard Crossley and our friends at Princeton University Press ! Get yours today! Hat-tip to Stella. Spring is the perfect season to take this book for a spin!

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FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Left – 2nd edition, right – 3rd edition So, not much has changed since the 2nd edition? Many vagrants have been recorded again and again, giving them the right to sneak into the main plates and to get a full coverage. Princeton University Press will be co-publishing the title this summer.

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AUGUST 12, 2021

Are 12s right for birding? Also, in the case of a raptor high in the sky, I raise my binoculars upward more than my eyes or head, and using the forehead rest inside a car in such a situation limits how high I can raise my bins before the rest presses against my forehead restrictively. What do you think? Back in the 1990s, I did.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

And it’s right in your backyard!” How to Be an Urban Birder by David Lindo, Princeton University Press, $18.95. Lindo’s personality, often slangy and joking, shines through on every page, and he sometimes repeats himself in his urgency to get his message across. Since his message is “look how awesome this is!

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AUGUST 31, 2011

You can see two adult males, one in the middle and one on the right side of the screen and an adult female running up to the foraging group from the cover at the edge of the yard. 2005), Nests, Eggs, and Nestlings of North American Birds , Princeton: Princeton University Press 2 Birds of North America Online a. www.youtube.com/watch?

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FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Very shallow and short slalom kayaks are good if you want to explore backwaters, paddling through inundated riparian forests, left and right around the trees, or below low branches of half fallen, rotting trunks hollowed by woodpeckers. I heard it, all right. Like in life, there is no middle ground.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

I was in the country for a day two years ago, a layover between my last visit to the UK and coming back to New Zealand, and I had managed to arrange a mad-cap day of birding, a story for another day when I have more time and a less pressing need to watch immature car related television. Sparrows are from the family Passeridae.

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JUNE 9, 2021

Yale University Press, New Haven and London, May 19, 2020. Photos in the body of the review, above, by David Tipling.] Flights of Passage: An illustrated natural history of bird migration. By Mike Unwin and David Tipling. 9 ¼ x 11 3/8, $40. ISBN 9780300247442. The post Flights of Passage: a book review appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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JUNE 20, 2011

That’s what friends are for, right? Waiting patiently as it backed up, I hoped to seize the right moment and capture the imminent fecal fireworks. I hoped, I judged, I reacted, and I pressed the shutter release button down as hard as I could. For me, Andy is that friend. I smelled, er, sensed an opportunity!

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MAY 7, 2011

Mexico is notorious for its bullfights and lack of animal rights. Senators from the opposition Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, are working on legislation to ban bullfights and guarantee animal rights in Mexico, a lawmaker said. And not very optimistic. But, still, I can't dismiss it. From Fox News (blech).

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JULY 13, 2011

My anger at the TSA is that I think the grope is a violation of my civil rights, low wage employees get to legally do to me something that any other stranger could be arrested for and I see it as bad theater meant to make me feel safe. Turns out that his theft on the job could total upwards of $50,000 over the past six months alone!

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MARCH 22, 2024

She did just that, and the fact that they were well used gave exactly the right impression she needed of someone who knew, when it came to birds, what she was talking about. It’s difficult to explain why, but it just feels right. I’ve no idea what binoculars the current CEO of the RSPB, Rebecca Speight, uses.

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