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. Common Gallinules camouflaged with the denser vegetation, and we were now so close to the woods that we heard Red-bellied Woodpeckers and Common Yellowthroats.

Georgia 150

Georgia Transported Horses Fish 150

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Related to starlings, like woodpeckers they move over large mammals feeding on ticks, but also on their hosts’ blood. 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? They raise their trunks, sniffing the air.

South Africa 208

South Africa Africa Game Elephants 208

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.

Emotional 219

Emotional Birds Minneapolis Nepal 219

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2020

And, in “The Black and White,” Sara Crosby tells the evocative tale of finding a deceased Black-and-white Warbler on Charles Street while walking her dog. Press, 2020, 304p. When Birds Are Near: Dispatches from Contemporary Writers , edited by Susan Fox Rogers. Comstock Publishing/Cornell Univ.

New York City 180

New York City Birds Owls Fox 180

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2019

Gray-and-buff Woodpecker – Hemicircus concretus. Lewis’s Woodpecker – Melanerpes lewis. Red-headed Woodpecker – Melanerpes erythrocephalus. Acorn Woodpecker – Melanerpes formicivorus. Golden-naped Woodpecker – Melanerpes chrysauchen. Parque Ecológico do Tietê. 27 Dec 2018.

2018 113

2018 Australia Woodpeckers Sparrows 113