2013 Birds Raised Research 
10,000 Birds
JULY 5, 2022
In 2007 I was working in a university building that was just begging for bird feeders. This was where I set up my bird feeders, just one at first, then expanding as everyone expressed delight in seeing the Carolina Chickadees, Dark-eyed Juncos, and Downy Woodpeckers. There were no dead birds for weeks. I hoped it was an anomaly.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 4, 2022
I have recently written about the American Birding Association, as it is currently searching for a new president. Additionally, I was curious how the ABA arrived at its precarious financial position, so I did some historical research and decided to share the results.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 27, 2017
For three weeks in June, I traveled up and then down the eastern seaboard visiting ecological research sites. One particular resting place brought me to familiar birding territory: Pleasure House Point, Virginia Beach. When I was first learning to bird in the summer of 2013, I spent a summer living with my fiance in Virginia Beach.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 26, 2013
Hardly the elegant, natural picture deserving of some seriously stunning birds! And what I found made me take a step back in time and reflect upon how truly special these birds are. In 1938, they were reduced to only 18 birds in the Aransas-Wood Buffalo flock and only 11 remaining in the non-migratory Louisiana flock.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 19, 2013
This week, a new study was published about Sparrows in Nebraska, that in some ways resembles the study by Bumpus and may well be a better example of Natural Selection in birds. House Sparrows ( Passer domesticus ) are introduced birds over most of their very large range. As you know, a lot of birds are killed in the U.S.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 2, 2015
Producing a book about birds and nesting is a dangerous business. The truth is that there are few images cuter than baby birds in the nest opening their mouths and begging for food, but there are curmudgeons amongst us, myself included, who don’t like to admit this. And of birds courting and mating. We simply refuse to squee.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 3, 2014
Most of the books about extinction, including Fuller’s Extinct Birds (now, ironically, out of print), describe what was lost and look for explanations, scientifically and historically. The idea of Lost Animals was conceived after the publication of Extinct Birds (2001), a 400-page, four-pound book on 75 extinct species.
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