10,000 Birds
MARCH 29, 2012
Like you, I’ve seen a lot of ducks in my life, but it wasn’t until 2006 that I first beheld the the wondrous waterfowl that I’d come to regard as my favorite duck, bar none – the White-cheeked Pintail. Like most southern ducks, this one is not dimorphic which means the males and females are equally enchanting.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 4, 2022
Although Henslow’s had been reliably found in nearby Sharon Springs for many years, the last documented sighting was in 2008, and the sighting startled longtime birders, waking them up to the fact that breeding sites in the state were rapidly being lost. In July 2011 a Henslow’s Sparrow was found in Ames, N.Y.,
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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!). As you can imagine, I was champing at the bit to get to this lost paradise and when I finally obtained the necessary permissions in 2008, it didn’t fail to astonish!
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 4, 2014
First issued in a limited printing in 1972, then re-issued by Ammo Press in 2008 after Harper’s death in June 2007, it contains images that are iconic and familiar, striking and unique. He describes his experience in his introduction to Birds & Words : I took my first good look at birds as subject matter.
10,000 Birds
MAY 15, 2012
Few experiences birding get me more excited than adding a new bird to my Queens list. Black Vulture - Despite a marked increase in Turkey Vulture sightings – nine since March of 2011 when I had my first in Queens - Black Vultures remain stubbornly absent from the borough (only two sightings reported to eBird in Queens since 2008).
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 21, 2014
In my vast experience in the terrifying outland that is the world of the non-birder, the biggest question I get concerns the inherent trustworthiness of the avocation. In 2008, I found an Ash-throated Flycatcher, then the state’s 12th or so record, in remote Jones County, NC. What happens if you get caught.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 22, 2015
The Little Egret walks in front of her, a dozen Lesser Whistling Ducks flies noisily low above water and through a flooded grass wades one Black-winged Stilt. 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. Telia, copyright © Nitin Bhardwaj.
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