10,000 Birds
JULY 5, 2022
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. I picked up a Downy Woodpecker, an every-day visitor. I was shocked when I found the first body, a female Towhee. The window silhouettes were gone.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 3, 2014
Female Imperial Woodpecker in flight, Mexico, a still from recently found film made by William Rhein, p. Eskimo Curlew, Passenger Pigeon, Ivory-billed Woodpecker, Bachman’s Warbler, Carolina Parakeet—these are names that echo mightily through birding histories and even some recent field guides. The photographs were never published.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 2, 2015
Second, reading about birds courting and parenting brings out the tendency to identify, which leads directly to anthropomorphism, the tendency to assign birds human emotions and thoughts. Think of birds too much as humans and you lose the specialness that makes them birds. Some people love books like that. Yellow Warbler fledgling.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
It describes how, when a veterinary drug used in India killed the vast majority of Indian vultures, the human death rate in affected locations increased by about 4% as the vultures were no longer around to feed on animal carcasses and the sanitation thus worsened substantially.
10,000 Birds
JULY 7, 2021
A brief personal digression: I moved back into the house I grew up in back in 2014, my parents vacated at the end of 2016. This pair of Lineated Woodpeckers loves the termite-ridden branches of my neighbor’s avocado tree. One of my main projects has been our yard here at home. I hope you choose our place!
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 20, 2014
2014), presents an authoritative framework for our understanding of and future work on bird phylogeny. Now it’s late 2014, six and a half years later, and here’s what we know today. So do parrots, some songbirds, humans, and a few other mammals. American Flamingo photo by Dick Culbert). Open Jarvis et al.’s
10,000 Birds
JUNE 18, 2015
Before 2014, no active, natural roost sites were known; all of the active, known roosts were in bat houses. However, during an annual survey of red-cockaded woodpeckers, the first natural roost site was discovered inside a tree cavity near Avon Park, Florida. Florida Bonneted Bat roosting in Palm Tree.
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