10,000 Birds
JANUARY 9, 2019
For nearly 10 days now, I have been sorting thru all of the images from 2018. In the end, I truly did set out to reduce the number of birds that I feature here from 1302, my years total species, down to 10-12. For those of you that may have an interest, click here for the link to the entire list of 1302 birds from 2018!
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 4, 2022
Yes, sure, Rock Pigeons are not a vulnerable species, unless you count the number of times they have been mocked, scorned, and shooed away. They’re apparently not a sensitive species either, because this derision doesn’t seem to bother them at all! “Pigeons have lost their usefulness.
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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 9, 2021
In 2018, I read an article in Birding magazine by Jeff R. Although the class focused “on birds, students also pick up some botany, geology, hydrology, forestry, fisheries, meteorology, and wildlife management,” students also learned “the names, habits, and importance of local animals and plants.” and from Australia.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 13, 2018
The Northern Spotted Owl is a “ threatened ” species under the U.S. Endangered Species Act and it was famously the subject of extensive and protracted litigation in the late 1980s and early 1990s, mostly relating to forestry management plans in the Pacific Northwest. The environmental groups appealed to the U.S.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 2, 2021
This second edition covers 685 species found in the continental U.S. and Canada, including some species as far north as Alaska, an increase over the 500 species covered in the first edition. To get an idea of how many mushroom species are around us, in 2018, the journal Mycologia published a checklist of North American fungi.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 6, 2020
Sadly in June 2018 a weed was found in the area and they had to completely close the rest area down. It does not completely solve the problem, because animals transport the burrs, but it will hopefully slow the spread. This was a first time we had observed this particular sub-species. They head north! Black-tailed Treecreeper.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 21, 2018
Major extinction events that are geologically instantaneous have been followed by periods of time with reduction of species or unstable habitats that last for hundreds of thousands or millions of years. There are about 10,000 species of them, after all, which is a lot for a vertebrate. But, that is also a naive view.
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