10,000 Birds
MAY 9, 2022
Maybe author Sy Montgomery is right when she says that “birdwatchers often look down on falconry,” and maybe not. It’s not clear from the book’s ending, but it sounds like she abandoned her nascent apprenticeship because of her traveling schedule, her marriage, and her own chickens who would certainly be killed if she kept a hawk.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 5, 2013
Even the most touchy-feely, circle-of-lifey, we’re-all-one-with-nature wildlife rehabilitators hate them. I arrived home with a nice inch-long incision right between my eyebrows, and found a car parked in my driveway. I had her wrapped in a towel and was giving her the once-over when … right! I hate them. I’ll tell you how.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 17, 2015
He yelled a relatively unintelligible explanation as he ran to the car, abandoning his family, and sped to Jamaica Bay where he parked and ran out to the breach of the West Pond where he relied upon the kindness of other birders, who let him use their scopes while he got his breath back.
10,000 Birds
JULY 9, 2015
In the morning, still sleepy, we enter the jungle, where a sounder of Indian Boars (a long-maned subspecies Sus scrofa cristatus ) is watching us, standing among the first trees, right next to the road. To Nitin, this was a recce trip for his new wildlife photography tours enterprise. One White-eyed Buzzard has turned its back to us.
10,000 Birds
MAY 6, 2016
I asked a group of wildlife rehabilitators: “What are some of the Worst Bird Myths? Had they been able to make the jawbone talk, no doubt its first words would be, “You can’t put a baby bird back in the nest, because the parents will smell your hands and abandon it.”. So right from the beginning, none of this makes any sense.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 14, 2022
This spurred her to pursue a career in environmental education and wildlife nature tourism as a park ranger in Texas and as the Great Florida Birding and Wildlife Trail Coordinator with Florida Fish and Wildlife. I learned of the trip right as it had been delayed and made a vow that I would be on that ship.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 27, 2015
As it turned out Nikomo had been all but abandoned when he was five, and was so constantly hungry that everything became a potential food source. Four years later, happy, well-fed, and carefully instructed that wildlife was no longer on the menu, he was the Village’s walking field guide to birds. Suzie is very happy now, yes?”
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