10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Here in New Zealand our shambolic exercise in not picking a new flag is becoming a) political and b) something that people will quickly stop paying attention to when the Rugby World Cup starts. On the one hand, like all writers I crave comments, as they validate my decision to write something by indicating that someone read it.

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Australia New Zealand Guinea Hunters 155

10,000 Birds

JULY 12, 2012

After experiencing the Rachel Carson Commemorative in Duxbury, MA, she was moved to share some little-known facts about this tremendously influential nature writer’s interest in birds… I was thirteen when my mother and I took turns reading aloud the new bestseller, Silent Spring , on family vacation the summer of 1963.

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Pennsylvania Massachusetts Sanctuary 2009 226

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

In her other life, she is a writer, editor, writing coach, and lecturer to later-life learners in Toronto. She contributes regularly to Ontario Nature , reviews books for Birding, and also blogs about her misadventures in bird identification while offering trenchant analysis of avian coiffures on her own blog Birds and Words.

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Puffins Whales Whaling Bald Eagle 179

10,000 Birds

APRIL 19, 2011

We at 10,000 Birds are excited to introduce Greg Laden, who will be familiar to anyone who pays attention to nature blogs because of his perch near the very top of the Nature Blog Network. But really, knowing about the birds that go with the science is more likely to make the science more interesting.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2019

It’s never too late or too early to buy a children’s book about birds. It’s been a few years since my last roundup of children’s bird books, and children’s book writers, illustrators and publishers continue to produce picture books that feature avian protagonists. First, the board books.

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New York City Pelicans Birds New York 142

Animal Person

AUGUST 18, 2011

Hal Herzog writes about how many people who say they are vegetarians will also say they ate meat within the last 24 hours. Then there are the people who use the word "sacred" when they're talking about eating the flesh of another animals. I pay attention to the words people say--and write. Who laid it?

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 16, 2017

I’ve been lazy about blogging about our birding adventures there but the recent hurricanes and Jason’s excellent post on the idea of including Puerto Rico in the ABA Area have spurred me into action once again. The walk seemed to last forever, to the point where both of us got nervous about being in the correct spot.

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Parrots Puerto Rico Apes Endangered Species 101

10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2019

There is a wonder to its construction and color, a mystery that goes beyond what we know anatomically about how feathers function. And the book is about much more, ripple effects from what happens when part of a living thing becomes the central ingredient to a highly visual, social, profitable business. A feather is a magical thing.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2020

Before it joins waters with the Matabele’s iliMphopho, the river of rapid rising and falling, known to the rest of the world as the ‘great, grey, green, greasy Limpopo’ of Rudyard Kipling’s writings, the Ngotwane River marks the boundary line between Botswana and South Africa. I’m not worried over crocs unless you capsize the kayak!’.

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Animal Person

OCTOBER 13, 2010

But now that she's officially ours, I feel like I can write about a topic that means a lot to me without the fear that my words might somehow jeopardize the adoption. The point is that I'm here, paying attention and anticipating needs. And this is where I think about veganism. to no avail. Back to kids, though.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2014

darkness to write down the names of the birds they’re whispering as they point out three faint vocalizations at once. No warning was issued about the stretch of 73 plates in the field guide, from where the trogons leave off to where the flycatchers begin, that present a desert of unfamiliarity to you, hapless North American traveler.

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Peru Birds South America Owls 253

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2011

The bolts of lightening and the thunderclaps drew his attention back to where he was, to the heavy downpour, the branch, and the isolation. Birders appreciate them for their song and the life they add to our lawns, but they don’t note them in the sense of writing down numbers. All were long gone. He was alone.

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Blackbirds Germany Shelters Rodents 154

Animal Person

JULY 3, 2009

" Wild Justice: The Moral Lives of Animals ," By Marc Bekoff and Jessica Pierce, is the most recent (for me) book that debunks myths about the differences between human and nonhuman animals. And those mythical differences, of course, have historically been used to legitimize our use and treatment of our nonhuman cousins.

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Morals Mammals Humane Emotional 100

Animal Person

APRIL 26, 2009

Vamsee Juluri, Professor of Media Studies at the University of San Francisco, takes me back to graduate school when he writes of the importance of the stories we tell ourselves in " Use Free Speech to Celebrate Animal Life, Not to Enjoy Their Suffering." Here's my question: What about, say, videos taken inside slaughterhouses?

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San Francisco Cruelty Vivisection Open Rescue 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 21, 2011

Readers of 10,000 Birds who pay attention will remember him from when he showed Patrick and me some really cool damselflies out in Suffolk County. This blog post is written by Steve and by writing it he risks inciting the wrath of a horde of North American birders. Well, it recalled to me two previous finds.

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Florida New York Downers New York City 161

10,000 Birds

MARCH 24, 2022

I believe that writing is easy. So easy that I am writing, too, in my second language that I learned only in my 20s. His words touched something in me at page 1, and by the end of the book, he still had my undivided attention. And in 2015- 2016, they travelled the entire continent of Australia birding and writing about it.

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Birds Australia Cooking 2016 223

Animal Person

JULY 12, 2009

Yesterday I promised to write about "Conditional" over at Alec's Story , and again, if you haven't read the blog I highly recommend it. Nicole at Alec's Story writes: One of my pet peeves, so to speak, is the concept of “unconditional love” as attributed to dogs by humans. They want love, companionship, snuggling.

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Wombats Adoptable Greyhounds Pets 100

4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 27, 2011

Before we discuss how to help your dog when they get a cold, it is best to talk about preventing one in the first place. The only thing that sets it apart is that we humans can talk about the discomfort and dogs cannot. Sneezing, runny nose, headache, even fever: these are the things that we human beings experience when we have a cold.

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Dogs Meat Kennels Humane 100

Animal Person

MAY 10, 2009

And though I don't think donors are necessarily scientifically ignorant or easily duped, I do think they aren't paying close enough attention to what the organizations they give to really do with their money. Now, I know you're saying: That's not what animal rights is. For an attorney, that's awfully weak.

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Animal Rights Rights Broiler Chicken Animal 100

Animal Ethics

JANUARY 30, 2008

27): Mark Bittman answered my prayers by writing an article exposing how the meat industry contributes to global warming, world hunger and other issues plaguing our world. But much more attention and discussion needs to be directed to the meat industry, particularly its barbaric treatment of the helpless animals that are in our servitude.

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New York Times New York Meat Industry Meat 40

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

My attention is focused on objects moving above the water, vaguely defined-in-the-fog shapes, some moving lyrically, some diving, occasionally flying in close enough so I can see a bit of black on the wing, red on the bill, and then moving frustratingly out of reach of eye and optics. It is a challenging activity.

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Ducks Groups Species North America 224

10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2015

Yes, it’s been nearly two months since the 18th Annual Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival and, yes, I am still writing blog posts about it. Well, my five favorite shots not counting the ridiculousness that is the Roseate Spoonbill , which already got its own post chock full of images that I am pretty happy about.

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2015 Florida Wildlife Birds 165

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

It is the 100th Anniversary of the extinction of the species known as the Passenger Pigeon and writers are paying attention. And, when you think about it, it is pretty remarkable that anything new can still be said about the bird. We have a lot of source material. It’s an effective introduction.

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2014 Killing Michigan Kentucky 159

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Birds / Sandhill Crane Hunt in Kentucky?! What about all the other birds that die from inexperience, disease, natural predation and accidents? Sandhill Crane Hunt in Kentucky?! Kentucky Dept.

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 238

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2013

I tried using the Internet, but found it frustrating for all the usual reasons; websites either didn’t include all species or were difficult to use for identification. Plus there is my librarian-ish reluctance to use anything on the web for reference unless I know the author or the author’s credentials.

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Ireland France Breeding Eggs 168

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

There is much to enjoy and appreciate here and I only wish I could have tested out some of these species accounts in pelagic waters before writing about them (sadly, the 10,000 Birds pelagic to Antarctica was canceled this year). It’s intriguing, it’s fun, it’s even educational. Houghton Mifflin, U.S.),

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Albatross Penguins Groups Family 278

10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2023

Today marks International Women’s Day 2023, a globally-observed day of drawing attention to many of the issues women still unfortunately face. I am here to write on birds, however, and I shall bat in my crease as the cricketers say. After not even an hour in position, I noticed a flycatcher hunting about twenty metres away.

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Trinidad Bats 2020 Sanctuary 212

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Crossley recognizes the challenges of this topic, writing, “If you have had difficulty following these issues of aging, sexing, and molt in the last few pages, don’t despair.” There is no mistaking a Crossley ID Guide. It also contains a unique feature that may not be accepted by some birders. But, more on that later. .

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Ducks North America Geese Hunters 114

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2022

I have written about the interesting sex life of these jacanas a few times already (short version: female mates with male, lays a bunch of eggs for him to incubate and raise the chicks, leaves him, finds another male, repeat). Actually, as I just found out, this is not really new information.

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Birds China Eggs Breeding 147