10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 19, 2023

From 2020 to 2022, that figure was lower, about 500 animals per year, but is it because of better safety measures or fewer and consequently harder to locate quarries? Two more shadows in the spotlight, two of the most endangered carnivores of the sub-Saharan Africa are coming along the road, toward us: African Painted Dogs (Wild Dogs).

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South Africa Africa Game Elephants 229

4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 30, 2019

It’s hard to believe the new year is already right around the corner. What better way to ring in 2020 than with one of six unique calendars featuring Australia’s hottest firefighters with rescue cats, dogs, horses, and native animals! A … Continue reading →

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Horses 2020 Rescue Australia 160

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 227

10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2020

But it wasn’t four months ago, it was mid-June, 2020, mid-COVID-19 pandemic. The trails may have been buzzing with joggers, dog-walkers, and bikers, but the water was empty. We could have continued along the paddle trail, but I’m still building my kayaking muscles and didn’t want to overdo it right out of the gate.

Georgia 152

Georgia Transported Horses Fish 152

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 10, 2020

In Costa Rica, a lot of those birds fly right overhead. Costa Rica being such a small place, one hardly ever seems out of earshot of roads with rumbling trucks and auditory attacking motorcycles, of dogs hell bent on barking into the night, of occasional music being played. Latin America tends to be loud and Costa Rica is no exception.

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Costa Rica South America Colombia Paraguay 273

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2019

This year the big prize must go to Tom who has pushed himself, right to the wire to acheive a magnificent score for a self-funded, wife-organised, wife-sponsored Little Big Year , accounting for 57% of the total. Marathon Prairie Dog Town. Last year, Pat was the only beat invited to the awards ceremony and he swept the board.

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2018 Australia Woodpeckers Sparrows 113