10,000 Birds

MARCH 29, 2019

This week’s wine is the 2016 Lobo e Falcão Reserva from the 17 th -century estate of Quinta do Casal Branco , located in the Tejo region upriver from Lisbon. A falconer and his bird from the Mosaico de Cavaleiro in Mértola, possibly the oldest depiction of falconry in Iberia.

2016 187

2016 Portugal Falcons Japan 187

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

They may be about bird eggs ( The Most Perfect Thing: The Inside (and Outside) of a Bird’s Egg , 2016), or a 17th-century ornithologist ( Virtuoso by Nature: The Scientific Worlds of Francis Willughby, 2016), or How Bullfinches learn songs from humans ( The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology.

Dissection 264

Dissection Birds Research Europe 264

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Since the election in 2016, Merriam-Webster has experienced something of a cultural resurgence. Duck : “any of various swimming birds (family Anatidae, the duck family) in which the neck and legs are short, the feet typically webbed, the bill often broad and flat, and the sexes usually different from each other in plumage.”.

Albatross 150

Albatross Bears Ducks Bald Eagle 150