10,000 Birds
JUNE 7, 2020
But we’re not confined to a wasteland of resident breeders just yet, are we? Around midnight, I heard the most emphatic grunting right outside my window–unexpected because I was on the second floor. The post Best Bird of the Weekend (First of June 2020) appeared first on 10,000 Birds.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 1, 2023
2020, all also published by Firefly); children’s books and books on bird feeding. “Nothing is more humbling,” he sighs, “than spending a few hours in a boat or on a riverbank, unsuccessfully trying to catch a fish, and then seeing an Osprey dive and catch one right in front of you” (p. Bohemian Waxwing, p.
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10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 6, 2022
There are charismatic birds like Barrow’s Goldeneye, Evening Grosbeak, Red and White-winged Crossbills; mysterious seabirds like Leach’s Storm-Petrel; ‘little brown jobs’ like Winter Wren and Nelson’s Sparrow; a treasury of warbler species, 27 in all, many state breeders.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 30, 2020
2020 will be remembered as a year that we’d like to forget. Our 2020 year list stands at 324 for Victoria and the north of Western Australia combined, so we are more than happy with that under current circumstances. Since three times is a charm, I nominate the Sparkling-tailed hummingbird for my 2020 BBOTY.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 7, 2020
The same weakness is found in The Feather Thief (2018), a book similarly about an obsessive thief with flexible boundaries of right and wrong. He interviews breeders about rumors of raptor trafficking and egg smuggling, activities that have supposedly been stopped. Simon & Schuster, February 2020, 336 pages.
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