10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2020

But it wasn’t four months ago, it was mid-June, 2020, mid-COVID-19 pandemic. Piney Z lake is not large, bisected by a berm that parallels the land-trail as well as a series of fishing earthen fingers that stretch out into the water at regular intervals. So many Americans do not have these privileges.

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Georgia Transported Horses Fish 155

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Kooyman was there to work at McMurdo Station (a large American research station that we hear about throughout the book) as technical assistant on a science mission involving fish. He leaves enchanted by two mammals, the Emperor Penguin and the Weddell Seal, the only mammals who totally live their whole lives, year-round, in the Antarctic.

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Penguins Seals Leopards Research 178

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 25, 2022

Despite all of the dangers we have-snakes, spiders, crocodiles, deadly jellyfish, deadly fish, leeches, ticks, mosquitoes and then a pandemic-we still have a population of almost 26 million people. If you happen to find yourself in Melbourne then there are also plenty of places to go birding in the city itself or not far by public transport.

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Australia Singapore Birds Battery 147