10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 30, 2022
This, 2022, has been a curious year for books about birds and birding. Dragan]: Europe’s Birds: An Identification Guide , by Hume, Still, Swash, and Harrop is a photographic guide. The artwork of “Europe’s Birds” is dazzling, the text condensed and comprehensive, and the layout and design are without peer.
10,000 Birds
MAY 4, 2021
Louisiana is a magical place to bird. At the same time I was ogling Scissor-tailed Flycatchers and Upland Sandpipers, Marybeth Lima was also birding Louisiana. Chapter Two is a potpourri of stories about nemesis birds, birding by ear, birding for science, under the rubric of birding ‘for the love of it.’
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 14, 2021
Among all the birding locations I have found, Pino Real was my first love. I was just getting back into birding, and had only gone to some urban sites, during 2012 and 2013. By 2019, I couldn’t take it any more, and I stopped visiting Pino Real. And this was once a wonderful patch of bird-rich understory.
10,000 Birds
JULY 20, 2019
— but there is apparently an entire literature about women who adopt wild birds and devote substantial portions of their lives and psyches to those birds thereafter, often for years and, necessarily, to the point of obsession. To readers and to baby birds, its author, Julie Zickefoose, is a treasure.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 14, 2020
For many years, even after I joined the Rare Bird Committee , I simply took it for granted that I would have to walk away from some snipe ID questions. This all changed a few days ago, when I got a call about a distressed bird in someone’s backyard. A rehabber friend of mine sent me a photo of the bird asking for an ID.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 7, 2020
The proprietor of our ecolodge guides my small group of birders up a steep slope where we see, just at the point where a scope view deteriorates into pixels, a huge bird—a Chaco Eagle, also known as a Crowned Eagle—on a huge nest. 2019), and now this book. The post The Falcon Thief: A Book Review appeared first on 10,000 Birds.
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