10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2013

In early December of 2012 we had the opportunity to cover this hard-core rally in the south of Peru. Fred Tavares of the Brazilian team had the following to say of his team’s experience in the Amazon, “There are so many birds. Each day of the rally kicked off at the respectable time of 4 in the morning and ended after dark.

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Peru 2012 Birds Falcons 217

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

I found myself on the shore of Lake Ontario on the most bitter day of this mild winter to observe over 1,700 maniacs take a Polar Bear Plunge. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed.

Polar Bears 167

Polar Bears 2012 New York Geese 167

10,000 Birds

JUNE 10, 2020

Well, I did for the first time in 2012 – a single bird hopping maniacally from twig to twig directly overhead. The years passed and I had several similar experiences with this cryptic species. Only then I realized that it was an adult with a juvenile – and the experience took on an entirely new dimension.

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2012 Bears Experience Experiments 182

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2021

In 2012, I reviewed The Jewel Hunter , an absorbing narrative in which author Chris Goodie travelled throughout Asia, Africa, and Australasia to observe and photograph every Pitta species in the world. Like all talented travel writers, Dunn is adept at drawing us into his experiences. A passion for one bird family is also very useful.

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Costa Rica Brazil Ecuador Bolivia 264

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2015

There’s a Sloth Bear in tall, dry grass, barely 50 metres from us, but all we can see is a dark, shape-shifting shadow that eventually becomes all but invisible. 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. The Telia Lake.

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Tigers India Killing 2012 237

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

And sun bears. The Jewel Hunter is heavily laced with Gooddie’s particular brand of broad ironic humor, and I did enjoy that, but I would have traded about 10 percent for a little more insight into the unexpected outcomes of his experience. Press, Fall 2012. And mosquitos. And leeches. And pit vipers. And leeches.

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Hunters Sri Lanka Asia Solomon Islands 186