10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

It’s sometimes said that these long, dark feathers resemble the tails of a Victorian doctor’s knee-length frockcoat, with the bird’s black cap – which it can raise into a crest – completing the old-fashioned medical look as a top hat of sorts. Doctor bud a cunny bud. Hard bud fi dead. Lick ‘im down him get up. Hard bud fi dead.

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Jamaica Detroit Birds Medical 271

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Nate Swick, Frank Izaguirre, and I discussed Big Year books on the ABA Podcast in 2020.* Are there butterfly or mammal big years? (If If you know of any, let me know in the comments.) Our main question was: What is it about Big Year books that makes birders gobble them up like candy? Is it the competitive aspect?

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Birds Los Angeles Massachusetts New York City 213

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

From Hiro, we learn how Northern Pygmy Owls are “rule breakers,” not incubating eggs till all are hatched and then raising owlets that mature at the same rate even though the eggs were laid asynchronously (as most owl eggs are). Owls are in danger from the usual threats–habitat destruction, climate change, human intrusion.

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Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 209