10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2013

International teams compete for 6 days and 5 nights with the express purpose of recording the most bird species, by sight or by call, while the clock ticks down. In early December of 2012 we had the opportunity to cover this hard-core rally in the south of Peru. An Andean Flicker on the ground in the Peruvian Andes.

Peru 220

Peru 2012 Birds Falcons 220

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.

Tigers 240

Tigers India Killing 2012 240

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. Hummingbird species, on the other hand, number in the hundreds.

Costa Rica 264

Costa Rica Brazil Ecuador Bolivia 264

10,000 Birds

JUNE 10, 2020

Eventually, I learned to read the “status and distribution” section to whittle my must-see list down to species that were actually possible within T&T. Well, I did for the first time in 2012 – a single bird hopping maniacally from twig to twig directly overhead. Many of them were outrageously plumaged.

2012 184

2012 Bears Experience Experiments 184

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

And, to give his dream year a little more oomph, he created a grand once-in-a-lifetime goal: to track down and see every pitta species in the world in one year. 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. And sun bears. Press, Fall 2012.

Hunters 188

Hunters Sri Lanka Asia Solomon Islands 188