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This year has been bountiful in books about bird behavior (reference and otherwise) from the likes of David Allen Sibley , Helen Macdonald, Jennifer Ackerman , Wenfei Tong, and others. The latest is the encyclopedic and delightful Peterson Reference Guide to Bird Behavior , by John Kricher. Peterson Reference Guide to Bird Behavior.
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 Not many people read an index.
Here are some things I’ve learned from the Peterson Reference Guide to Owls of North America and the Caribbean by Scott Weidensaul: The Burrowing Owl is the only North American owl species where the male is larger than the female, albeit, only slightly larger. And the term is ‘non-reversed size dimorphism.’).
The Zoo and Aquarium Radiology Database (ZARD), housed at Brookfield Zoo Chicago, is an online reference tool of thousands of digital radiographs and CT scans preapproved by board-certified veterinary radiologists as “normal” for each species.
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The AVMA Board of Directors has referred newly proposed or revised policies, revised rules for office election campaigns, and a request for a dues increase to the AVMA House of Delegates for deliberation during its regular winter session.
The AVMA House of Delegates adopted a handful of revised animal welfare policies, including one on “Canine Devocalization” that supersedes the previous policy, approved a new policy on “Canine Hybrids,” and referred two other policies back to the AVMA Board of Directors (BOD).
Although company websites, content and sales presentations are highly used assets when evaluating an organization and its products, a Harvard Business Review study determined that customer references are an influential decision support tool too. Setting the Foundation for a Sustainable Customer Reference Program.
Oddly enough, it can also refer to a person from Nova Scotia. Oxford Languages defines a bluenose as a “priggish or puritanical” person. I imagine that this is due to the cold winters up there, rather than suggesting that all Nova Scotians are prudes.
I cannot end the shorebirds list without reference to two other cryptic species more often seen on the coast than up here. I’m referring to Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus , a close relative of the larger curlew, and the Common Snipe Gallinago gallinago. The picture of colourful shorebirds is completed by Dunlins Calidris alpina.
The Latin species name alphonsiana refers to Prof. And its eBird description as a “large and spectacular pheasant”, which – you guessed it – probably refers to the male. The Silver Pheasant sometimes feels inferior to the Golden Pheasant but relishes its superiority over the Bronze Pheasant.
It usually refers to an unleavened bread of the type made in south Asia. Apparently, the Green Iguanas , which are usually just referred to as iguanas though you might find some who like them so much that they refer to them by their scientific name, Iguana iguana , were around before the little take out restaurant.
As for “forest” and “football”, that pertains to where this species lives and its shape, in this case “football” referring to the sport celebtated on Monday night in the USA, typically accompanied by parking lot shenanigans. ” We could just as well refer to it by its genus, Neomorphus.
Although Broad-wingeds have never been referred to as Mexican Goshawks, it would seem that they still overlap in terms of prey items and habitat. I suspect it spends most of its time in our neighborhood. When the Broad-winged Hawks arrive, how do this individual and other local Gray Hawks deal with them?
The most printable slang is the logical TTs, which Maureen Eiger wrote means “Tyrant Titmouse,” a reference to their over-the-top personalities. Ramousky,” wrote Erin Smithies-Baker, referring to the enrichment idea her colleague Lisa Kelly came up with for their unreleasable Turkey Vultures. We do real birds.”.
I found this use of ‘regular people’s’ stories initially disjointing; it threw my librarian concept of a reference book out of whack. Reference books are supposed to be full of documentable facts, not stories from people without a PhD next to their name. But, this is not a reference book in the classic sense.
He’s the author of The New Neotropical Companion (2017, originally published in 1997), a must-read for any birder preparing to travel to Central and South America, the Peterson Reference Guide to Bird Behavior (2020), and a long list of other books and articles. The subject index at the back of the book is thorough but difficult to use.
Here is a sample of the prose, which in part describes the figure above: Referring to the drawings, FIGS. 1-3 illustrate a feeder designated by reference numeral 10.
When I say “robin”, I’m referring to both kinds of robins, those of the genus Turdus in the family Turdidae, and those chats of the family Muscicapidae also called robins. So we’re trying something a bit different this time. I suppose we’re going with a semantic group rather than a taxonomic one this time.
References: Dunne, Pete (2006), Pete Dunne’s Essential Field Guide Companion. If you, like millions of other wildlife enthusiasts, enjoy visiting our National Wildlife Refuge System to observe and photograph the hundreds of species that rest and live on our refuges, please join us in supporting the Wildlife Conservation Stamp Project.
References: 1 Birds of North America Online. Once s/he showed itself and I began taking photographs, the bird seemed to be intrigued by the sound of the camera clicking, flying up into the tree right in front of us where I took the featured image above and this one. Birds Green-tailed Towhee Mountain Bird Festival towhees'
“Out West” to most Floridians might mean California or Arizona or might even refer to the Gulf Coast of Florida. But to us locals from the El Dub (Lake Worth, FL) it refers to anywhere east of the Everglades and west of Congress Avenue. And this is where magic happens from time to time.
And the references I use! Sometimes I get stuck trying to figure out how to describe something and I turn to references to see how others did it. But to find a Cerulean Warbler a New York birder needs a bit more information, so I included a couple of parks where they can be found.
Its genus name refers to supposed similarities between it and the African mousebirds , and its species name refers to waxwings. The Hypocolius (sometimes styled as Grey Hypocolius , Hypocolius ampelinus ) is a fruit-eating, migratory bird of southwest Asia. Spellman et al.
References: 1 Birds of North America Online. At about the 2:03 mark you will notice a Ross’s Goose moving behind the dark morph goose from right to left and another following behind. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYNb-0vYTE8. v=DYNb-0vYTE8. Birds geese Ross''s Goose Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge Snow Goose waterfowl'
References: 1 Birds of North America Online. In the meantime, here is a shot of the male Calliope Hummingbird after the sun hit the feeders. If you want to see the best photograph of a male Calliope Hummingbird displaying that I have ever seen, check out this photo by Wally Rufous ! It will blow you away!
In Jason Crotty’s article this week, he used the common birders’ phrase “trash birds” jokingly, to refer to some trash cans painted with realistic bird images in Portland, USA. Central Mexico has, of course, its own trash birds.
However, there are only two lyrical references to birds in the National song catalog, and they are both somewhat generic (“Out of my league, I have birds in my sleeves” in”Squalor Victoria” and “Bird that flys out of order underneath the sky” in “29 years” – the latter is not a bad line). Less so when in flight, though.
References to plate numbers (in the Plates section) and photograph numbers (in a Photo Gallery) are also placed prominently next to species name. There is also ample reference material in the front and back of the guide. Family follows family with no page break, making this section a little dense.
The subtitle of Jackie Higgins’ book Sentient: How Animals Illuminate the Wonder of Our Human Senses , aptly sets forth her thesis – though the “wonder” it refers to could equally well be used to describe animal (not just human) senses, as she shows in fascinating detail.
Their name refers to their habit of eating nectar and pollen, though most of them also eat insects and/or fruit. The book hastens to assure us that “we may safely assume that it referred only to bright plumage” While larger, the White-eared Honeyeater seems to follow a somewhat similar color scheme. .” (HBW).
The White-tailed Antelope Squirrel , sometimes referred to as the White-tailed Ground Squirrel or the Antelope Chipmunk , is the rare diurnal mammal in the deserts of the southwestern United States. Nonetheless, it stuck around, hoping perhaps that one of the four kids aged six and under would drop some of their lunch accidentally.
You may have noticed that avian nomenclature is a misogynistic business, and many bird names refer to features that only males possess. This bird, in spite of what you may see in the photo at the top of this post, is named the Cinnamon-bellied Flowerpiercer. It’s not fair, but that’s the way it is.
When we refer to an American Robin , we all immediately know the precise species in question. The California Scrub-Jay is an example, as the version of Sibley on my shelf refers to it as a Western Scrub-jay. (The I am not a taxonomist and I approach the issue as an interested birder, not a professional.
It certainly does not refer to the status of Nanhui. At least, I managed to get a The National reference into the blog eventually. . “So worry not All things are well We’ll be alright” sings Matt Berninger in The National’s “ Apartment Story “, but this is at least halfway meant ironically.
I am referring to the sequence of events prior to May 9th, where CORBIDI, a small NGO in the country of Peru launched an effort to recruit birders from every corner of the country. But the idea of a Global Bid Day sounded like a good excuse to go out birding on May 9th and make my day’s list count.
Birkhead focuses on those stories that both illustrate each chapter’s theme and clearly have meaning to him, and though the Birds and Us of the title primarily refers to how we, humans, observe and value birds, there are forays into birds and art, literature, medicine, food, religion, and biography.
A lot of people read reference books like this by browsing. The Index basically lists pages for species by scientific name and common name, plus references for hybrids. Reference guides, a book category that includes bird identification guides, are not read sequentially.
Its Corvina della Provincia di Verona is produced entirely from one such grape: the Corvina, a very dark, late-ripening variety whose name in Italian refers to the jet-black plumage of crows and ravens. The outfit specializes in wines produced from indigenous Italian grape varieties.
Pink-throated Twinspot’s scientific name is Hypargos margaritatus , the generic name means “possessing 100 eyes below” – “ hypo ” referring to “under” and “ argus ” to Argus, the 100-eyed guardian of Io. Both these names as well as it’s English name refer to the overlapping spots that are a feature of the underside of all the twinspots.
The Isabelline Wheatear is an exception; its name apparently refers to the color of parchment. Many males sport bold black-and-white plumage, surprising for birds that spend most of their time on sandy and dry ground. In contrast, four Eastern Black-eared Wheatears certainly did rock the black-and-white look.
Karlson and Dale Rosselet in Birding by Impression: A Different Approach to Knowing and Identifying Birds, the latest addition to the Peterson Reference Guide series and a book likely to revive the continuing discussion about the merits of GISS (the term used in the book, as opposed to the popular jizz ) versus traditional bird identification.
The word Trogon, from the Greek meaning “gnawer,” refers to their hooked, serrated bills used to eat large insects and fruit – as well as gnaw on the rotting wood of old woodpecker cavities to reuse as nesting sites.
The title refers to the Serbian movie of the same name (minus the “birding”) that was filmed in that area. The next site is grazing pastureland called Mali Pesak and there, while having coffee among the snowy dunes, we observe the hunting attempt of one beautiful Hen Harrier male. Trips Europe Serbia wetlands'
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