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.
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.
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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. Jonas D’Abronzo.
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. In 2012, the Hindustani Times claimed that from January 2011 to June 2012, a further 9 tigers were killed in the Tadoba buffer zone. The Telia Lake.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 17, 2012
New Jersey Birds and Beyond showcases about 180 bird species commonly found in New Jersey, from Great Blue Heron to Red-winged Blackbird, as well as some exceptional visitors, such as the Cape May Ivory Gull. Schiffer Publishing, 2012. Some interesting coffee table-type titles have been reviewed in 10,000 Birds.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 3, 2014
Eight days with 20 of the world’s top birding guides looking for some 1,000 species and three dozen endemics. You can see as many hummingbird species as the folks at Magee Marsh are seeing warbler species—during 25 minutes on a Sunday afternoon. As the rally tore through its itinerary, the species piled up.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 3, 2013
It’s either that or the Hindus are right, that our existence is a continuing chain of lives through re-birth, a system of action and reward, and Corey Finger’s former life was that of a panda bear whose biggest mischief was eating bamboo, while I was Pol Pot. Either way, it just ain’t fair !!!
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