10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2019

I couldn’t help thinking this–me, the anthropomorphism hater– as I watched a pair of Philippine Eagles tend their nest, raise a chick, and tear monkeys apart in Bird of Prey: The Story of the Rarest Eagle on Earth , a well-crafted, beautifully filmed documentary with a mission. The Philippine Eagle has a kind face.

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Eagles Philippines Eggs Birds 203

10,000 Birds

MAY 30, 2019

Raised in and around the West Texas steppe country where temperatures reached 100 degrees with regularity, he began life as the Dust Bowl and Great Depression converged. Done properly, a young hawk is curtailed in a growing compulsion to fly greater distances and hunt for herself by a process sometimes called “manning.”

Falcons 195

Falcons California Condor Alaska Texas 195

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

is going to have to go to Michigan or Wisconsin. Not only were they a common bird, they were a common bird nearshore; indigenous peoples hunted them up and down the coast. The most notorious effect is that their eggshells become so thin that a parent bird will crush it’s eggs while attempting to incubate them.

Albatross 220

Albatross Endangered Species Geese Alaska 220