10,000 Birds
AUGUST 19, 2014
Whales are cows. The point is, of course, that whales are not cows. But if you were a biologist in training and you told your advisor you had a grant to study cows, and then took off on a boat to study whales, you would cause more confusion than necessary. Even though whales are cows. Cows do not. Nor do camels.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 1, 2012
One family we came across recently had two chicks and one minute we had nice views from the vehicle… Masked Lapwing chick We then could not see it, but had not seen it run off…very odd… very clever… We discovered it had got into a cow footprint and was cleverly disguised! Masked Lapwing chick hiding in a cow footprint!
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 10, 2017
From Terry Tempest William’s 1992 bombshell Refuge to Cheryl Strayed’s 2012 blockbuster Wild (now a major-ish motion picture!) The love of nature is evident in his chapters about his parents and siblings; his family is ever-present in his musings on trees and springs and cows. the hits keep coming.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 5, 2017
I started keeping year lists – not just blogging about them but really keeping track of what I see each year – as late as 2012, roughly 30 years into my birding career. Therefore, the 2012 list itself was never the focus of my year listing, it was competition and blogging.
Animal Ethics
SEPTEMBER 17, 2012
To the Editor: In “ Where Cows Are Happy and Food Is Healthy ” (column, Sept. Kristof describes “happy” cows that are loved “like children” by an organic dairy farmer. I applaud his recognition that cows are individual feeling beings that share with us the ability to experience happiness and contentment, fear and pain.
10,000 Birds
JULY 16, 2012
Flying from kitten to hen to dog to cow to car to boat to steam shovel, the baby bird asks the timeless question, “Are you my mother?” Enchanted Lion Books, 2012. In Are You My Mother? a baby bird of indeterminate species hatches while his mother is away from the nest. Hyperion Press, 2003.
10,000 Birds
JULY 11, 2013
We are nearing the waterhole, and see the large oval shadow in the darkness: that White Rhino cow with a calf. If such a trend continues, we will lose these animals for good!
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