article thumbnail

Best Bird of the Weekend (First of March 2011)

10,000 Birds

This cruel, cruel fate we endure in western New York torments man and beast alike. • Explore These Related Posts Best Bird of the Weekend (Third of March 2011) Where Are You Birding This Third Weekend of March 2011? Best Bird of the Weekend (Second of March 2011) Where Are You Birding This Second Weekend of March 2011?

2011 154
article thumbnail

The Parakeet of City Streets, the Monk Parakeet

10,000 Birds

We got them,” I say happily to the three members of my 2011 Christmas Bird Count team, strung out along the path traversing Powell’s Cove Park. Some articles speculate that the nests offer protection against the cold. The Monk Parakeets. We have them for the count!”. They remain nuisances for local utility companies.

Chicago 200
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

Summer Books for Kids (and the rest of us)

10,000 Birds

Here are three excellent but very different children’s books I enjoyed this year (two were published in 2013, one in 2011). Meanwhile, forts were built to protect the island from invaders, war broke out between Spain and the United States, and the island became a U.S. Dawn Publications, March 2011. by Carol L.

article thumbnail

Birding and Safari-ing South Africa with the ABA

10,000 Birds

There were birders from a wide cross-section of the United States: Colorado, Ohio, Idaho, Iowa, Wyoming, Washington State, Pennsylvania, New York State, New Jersey, California, Texas, Florida. The leopards place their kill in a tree, protecting it from poaching by other predators. Struik, 2011).

article thumbnail

The Nature of the Meadowlands: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

I think every naturalist in the United States knows the outlines of this urban tale: The pristine marshes of New Jersey are poisoned by pollution, toxic waste, pig farms, and probably every single way in which human beings can destroy the environment. This is the fable of the New Jersey Meadowlands and it is all true.

article thumbnail

The Crossley ID Guide: Waterfowl–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

I am a city girl and until I became a birder my contact with hunting was limited to occasionally seeing dead deer on the tops of cars in upstate New York. So–not a fan of hunting. And, neither are most of our 10,000 Birds writers. Authors: Richard Crossley is known as co-author of The Shorebird Guide (with Michael O’Brien and Kevin T.

Ducks 118