10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2023

Eight years later, Christian Cooper birding Central Park became a very different kind of media image: the black man falsely accused by a white woman of threatening her life after asking her to leash her dog in the Ramble, an area where unleashed dogs are not allowed. It was the same day George Floyd was killed. I remember that day.

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Emotional Birds Minneapolis Nepal 228

10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2023

(Except in the sad year of 2020, when Lake Cuitzeo had almost entirely dried up by January 1st.) This past January, however, my experience was even better. The same can be said, to a lesser extent, for the shorebirds, New World sparrows, warblers, and many other families. Sure, the dog didn’t count for our eBird list.

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Blackbirds 2020 Ducks Mexico 147

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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New York City Birds Owls Fox 198