10,000 Birds
APRIL 17, 2012
On April 20th 2010, the world received news that eleven men working on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig died in an explosion on the BP-operated Macondo Prospect. As you read the below timeline and see the below images, don’t ever forget the perils that walk hand-in-hand with human greed. April 20, 2010 At 9.45
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 8, 2023
Appendix A lists “Rare Migrants and Vagrants,” 81 species, including birds for which there are no documented records, but which are listed in the literature or eBird. I’m not saying this is good or bad, I do appreciate the careful documentation of the taxonomic notes and other materials. Fantasy is the key word here.
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10,000 Birds
JANUARY 7, 2020
Though the third-most densely populated county in the United States (as of the 2010 census, thank you Wikipedia), about 25% of Bronx land is open, public space. Not all habitat change is due to humans; there is Chestnut Blight destroying American Chestnuts in the early 1900s, and the more recent Dutch Elm disease.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 20, 2012
Crawford, in “Introduction to Europe and Diffusion of Domesticated Turkeys from the America (sic)”: A document dated 24 October 1511 was an order from the Bishop of Valencia for each ship from the Islands and Tierra Firme to bring to Seville ten turkeys, half males and half females, for breeding. According to R.D. 78(1):61–78. ca 1630–1647.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 2, 2012
Some of his finds are the first documented records of the bird in that area or the first decent photograph of a little-known species. The books work best when the birding is coupled with the human element. WILDGuides, 2010 (UK), 424p. If it were just the birds, I’d grab my bins and be on the next plane to Asia or Africa.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 16, 2017
But, it is a documented bird threat! I haven’t found any articles on Atlantic Coast birds being injured by these dangerous mussels (which are also not very tasty to humans), so I’m thinking that our birds somehow know better. It is a filter feeder, not a bird eater.
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