10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 1, 2021
It seems the bird I saw is a first-winter one, at least according to the HBW description: “First-winter has head white apart from dark brown mottling on crown and nape; upperwing-coverts extensively marked brown; black subterminal tail-band; dark bare parts.” See my blog post on Dulan for photos of the latter.
10,000 Birds
MAY 6, 2014
A good state bird guide needs to offer details about a bird’s look, sound, behavior and habitat in language that is specific enough to differentiate the bird from similar-looking species, but nonscientific enough not to intimidate novice birders. Species are organized in American Ornithologists’ Union taxonomic order.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 20, 2011
My birder’s brain struggled mightily to reconcile the odd shapes in the sky with any known species, but their call brought it all back. From the tail band, it looks like an immature. I was standing around talking to some people in the parking lot of the college when I heard a high, joyous call floating down from the air.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 2, 2012
It was a Benguela Nino year, and pelagic seabirds were in super-abundance in the south eastern Atlantic, with the total of species by variety and number exceeding all expectations for the birders on the inaugural trip as we pitched and wallowed about in the rolling swells on our way out to the trawling grounds.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 27, 2011
The cool thing was that Jonathon Wood of The Raptor Project had a number of birds present and he would present many different facts about each species. What can you notice about the tail of this bird? The uneven tail bands are usually a dead giveaway for Coop’s. The edge of the retrices look to be a sharp 90 dg.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 4, 2014
Yet, it is amazing how many identification features are evident in his bird pictures—the fire-red head, streaked back, white wing bars, and white-tipped tertials of the Western Tanager, the white tail band on the Eastern Kingbird, the black-bordered white eyebrow of the Red-eyed Vireo. The chapter also gives hope.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 2, 2012
The new edition adds 11 species, birds such as Zone-tailed Hawk, Short-tailed Hawk, and California Condor that are only seen in specific areas of North America. Individual species accounts follow, featuring a description of the hawk’s range, a little of its history in North America, sections on Identification and In Flight.
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