10,000 Birds
APRIL 6, 2014
April bears the most fruit for my family tree, including my own bad apple birthday this week. Does your family celebrate a lot of April birthdays? My son’s birthday ushering in spring and my daughter’s showing it out serve as bookends to a seemingly endless parade of parties.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 1, 2021
The first guide bearing the National Audubon Society imprint was Audubon Bird Guide; Eastern Land Birds , written by Richard Hooper Pough, and illustrated by Don Eckelberry. Using the icons to locate specific bird families takes a little getting used to, but if you do it often it works well as a finding tool.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 3, 2014
Hugh, who years ago helped me find my first Pauraque in the Rio Grande Valley , visited Peru as part of the 2014 World Birding Rally, where he stopped thinking of himself as an experienced birder. And I, like some dowager countess in a birding vest, am expected to know each one’s family at a glance and greet them by name.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 7, 2014
Not, as Linneaus thought, an ostrich, nor even, as later scientists concluded, a distant cousin of pigeons deserving of family rank, it was an honest-to-goodness pigeon, deeply embedded within the family Columbidae. The bird’s skeleton bears similarities to New Guinea’s much smaller (!)
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 30, 2020
It bears an iconic name associated with insanity and betrayal, but also with time and seasonality. The closest I’ve ever come to breaking that run was in 2014, when I only had six lifers all year. Common Cuckoo is a fascinating bird, an obligate parasitic breeder that employs numerous strategies, including fraud and murder, to survive.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 28, 2018
advisory board, the “ Wildlife Protection Board ,” has been created to help rewrite federal rules for importing the heads and hides of African elephants, lions and rhinos is stacked with trophy hunters, including some members with direct ties to President Donald Trump and his family 2. A newly created U.S. But I digress.
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