10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb and all that rot. Wouldn’t you love to visit Cape Kidnappers in NZ, where Duncan Wright has enjoyed sauvignon and seabirds ? What matters more to me is how this month comes in like decrepit winter and goes out like nascent spring, early migrants and all!

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Lamb 2013 Lions Birds 154

10,000 Birds

JUNE 19, 2019

By 2013, I was the #1 eBirder there — out of a total fo 24! Lamb, who surveyed the birds of western Mexico from 1932-1955, and whose lists have been posted on eBird in recent years. The year was 2013, and I was just rediscovering a passion for birds after a 30-year hiatus. But my home is not in the U.S. or the U.K.;

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Mexico Birds 2013 Lamb 125

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 17, 2020

Even though a 2013 petition by the Royal Society of Protection of Birds failed to convince the Scottish parliament to make it official, the campaign to make the Golden Eagle Scotland’s national bird continues. Eagle and Lamb by John James Audubon (1785-1851).

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Eagles Lions Hunting Lamb 157