10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2022

In July 2011 a Henslow’s Sparrow was found in Ames, N.Y., Her essays are structured pieces of writing with layers of personal stories over literature over memories, punctuated with emotions, a little bit of philosophizing, and humor. a rural area in the eastern-central part of the state. How is birding like rock climbing?

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2011

Look at the facts, lay your emotions aside and listen to reason—exactly the same reasoning that’s been so persuasive in convincing me that hunting cranes is the right thing to do. There was a bounty on them in Alaska from 1917 until 1952—up to $2 a head! I get it now, I really do. I think it’s time to hunt Sandhill Cranes.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The 26 essays in When Birds Are Near are all about the real-life and emotional spaces where people overlap with birds. Paul Island, Alaska and has been reworked into an even more exceptional essay about guiding work on the island, where the unusual is the norm and bird guides use a tool kit of time and space. Press, 2011).

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