10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 8, 2023
The first is that the illustrations by Dale Dyer are based, and largely seem to be the same, as the illustrations for his previous guide Birds of Central America: Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama (co-authored with Andrew Vallely, PUP, 2018). Fantasy is the key word here. Doing this work takes time!
10,000 Birds
APRIL 14, 2023
In the human psyche, owls can be cuddly signs of good luck and benificence (as they are in Japan, and Harry Potter movies) and, at the same time, eerie and unsettling. Readers of this site already know about this extraordinary place from Dragan’s evocative post of November 2018, “ The 701 Long-eared Owls of Kikinda.”)
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10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 28, 2019
2018 proved to be one of my best birding years ever. For many women, pregnancy gives them a burst of energy, the joy of creating new life the boost they need to continue their daily activities while growing a human inside them. Not so much. I did not fall into that category.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 30, 2022
This is the last post covering my time birding the Kruger Park in November 2018. Among some other species of the kingfisher family, this species is a bit of a laughingstock. It seems this African Harrier-Hawk just caught something here. No clue what it is though. ” Instead, it mostly feeds on insects captured on the ground. .”
10,000 Birds
JUNE 4, 2019
Both were led by strong, intelligent women who needed to develop new ways of making their points with the public and the government; both movements were lynchpins in developing today’s values of human rights and environmental conservation. Aurum Press, June 2018, 336 pp. It is reproduced in “Mrs.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 24, 2020
This boldness isn’t restricted to exchanges with other grouse, either: in some locales, members of this circumpolar family are astonishingly foolhardy around humans. But there’s at least one night on the Scottish calendar when the grouse enjoys a reprieve, at least from human appetites.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 1, 2020
I should add that the Big Owls taking over NYC social and even hard print media, dominating conversations with my nonbirder friends and family, are not the only owls in the five boroughs, but like a musical, the closer you are to Broadway, the closer you are to fame and fortune (and maybe even a higher quality rodent for dinner, who knows?).
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