10,000 Birds
MAY 4, 2021
The book focuses on two listing events: her 2012 Louisiana Big Year and her 2016 Louisiana 300 Year. Marybeth Lima tells her birding and personal stories in straightforward, honest language that never skimps on detail (sometimes a bit too much detail) but never overflows on emotion. by Marybeth Lima. LSU Press, 2019, 272 pp.
10,000 Birds
MAY 14, 2016
Go to political rallies to get your emotions manipulated by potent, practiced con-artists? Today, it’s time to celebrate that combination of magic, obsession, and passion once again with the 2016 Global Big Day! It will be birding on the sly at its best and if the birds are singing, I might even break 100 species.
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10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 1, 2020
The 26 essays in When Birds Are Near are all about the real-life and emotional spaces where people overlap with birds. Donald Kroodsa’s “The Hour (or Two) Before the Dawn” is an adapted chapter from his book Listening to a Continent Sing (PUP, 2016).
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 8, 2017
The year 2016 was not a particularly birdy year for me, mostly because I didn’t get to go on business trips to Indonesia or Kazakhstan, as was frequently the case during the last few years. I did not see any lifers whatsoever in 2016, making it my first lifer-free year since around 2010. 1, my best bird of the year… 10.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 6, 2016
She doesn’t know the species till it emerges, almost dreamlike, from the heavy glare of the sun. Fox encounters 69 species, some singly, some in huge feeding or migrating flocks. She is one of the best nature writers I’ve encountered in recent years, able to paint experiences with emotional immediacy. by Caroline Fox.
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