2020 Experience Humane Species 
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 21, 2020
Every weekend seems to be wild from the perspective of human history. Over twenty species of wood-warbler, a variety of shorebirds, and host of birds in general will make for some fun fall birding. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 1, 2020
But birds don’t seem to care about what ails us humans. Corey had an excellent weekend’s birding, adding three species to his year list for Queens, Eared Grebe , Tundra Swan , and Red-shouldered Hawk. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.
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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
Galápagos: A Natural History, Second Edition by John Kricher and Kevin Loughlin gives the traveling naturalist the tools needed to fully appreciate and experience the Galápagos Islands. Where once there were 13 species of “Darwin’s finches,” there are now 17. I wish I had read this book.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 21, 2023
I understand there are still people out there who deny human-induced climate change. Perhaps those people have never had to personally experience increasingly erratic climate patterns. Our 2020 drought taught me that any body of water, no matter how small, might host these “drought refugees” in dry years.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 3, 2021
There was a time when I thought each bird species had its own individual song. Then I found out that there was this vocalization called a ‘call,’ so I thought each bird species had its own individual song (but just the males) and individual call. There is so much here! How do they know?
10,000 Birds
APRIL 5, 2022
per cent of individuals of a species at a given time” and a vagrant bird as a bird that shows up outside of this range (p. There are many more factors than I imagined: compass errors, wind drift, overshooting, extreme weather and irruptions, natural dispersal, and human-driven vagrancy. Next time, I’ll know why.
10,000 Birds
MAY 17, 2020
Good field guides to bird sounds are certainly available, particularly Nathan Pieplow’s for eastern and western North America.) It is written in English, mostly, or a form of English anyway, and on first encounter the book and its language is weird, intriguing, puzzling, and beautiful in a way outside the normal realm of experience.
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