10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
Galápagos: A Natural History, Second Edition by John Kricher and Kevin Loughlin gives the traveling naturalist the tools needed to fully appreciate and experience the Galápagos Islands. The book was originally published in 2006 as Galápagos: A Natural History with John Kricher as the sole author. I wish I had read this book.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 7, 2021
But he pretty much drops the subject, except for a final Chapter 9, “My Transition,” when he addresses it briefly, and says “I could write a book about these experiences alone.” Jonathan Trouern-Trend’s Birding Babylon: A Soldier’s Journal From Irag , a lovely little 2006 book, is also well worth your time. He probably should do.
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 8, 2011
Islands, for various reasons, experience more extinctions than continents (with Africa being the only continent not suffering a bird extinction!). Previously common at its only known site, Lake Aloatra, into the 1930’s, the introduction of numerous exotic fish species and human disturbance led to massive population declines.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 22, 2015
She has grown up in the reserve and has no experience of the environment of which tourists would not be a permanent, however boring part of. Earlier, a large number of villagers were being killed by tigers: 11 in 2006, 13 in 2007 and more than 26 during 2008. Telia, copyright © Nitin Bhardwaj. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
10,000 Birds
MAY 3, 2022
They did flush eventually, but not because of humans. This was the High Island Experience, I was told. Multitudes, hundreds of Brown Pelicans and Terns–Least, Common, Foster’s, Sandwich, Royal, and Caspian. Surprisingly, the Avocet area was not fenced off. I imagined walking right up to them. It was amazing.
Animal Person
APRIL 6, 2010
When I started blogging in May of 2006 I was very snarky. Riddle me this: Why would any human animal use as a default position that nonhuman animals do not have personalities as rich, distinct, obnoxious, obsequious and varied as human animals? Why is it surprising that nonhuman animals have personalities when human animals do?
4 The Love Of Animals
MARCH 17, 2011
Grief, friendship, gratitude, wonder, and other things we animals experience. Dogs are able to detect diseases such as cancer and diabetes and warn humans of impending heart attacks and strokes. In many ways, human emotions are the gifts of our animal ancestors. Waterfall Dances: Do animals have spiritual experiences?
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