10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The first two chapters make clear that although environmental concerns were a factor, his major reason for doing a big year was personal–his work as a postdoc in research neurobiology was at a crisis point, he needed to change research direction or…do something else. Are there butterfly or mammal big years? (If

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10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2021

The theme of the frailty of life and the importance of placing people before birding had been foreshadowed in an earlier chapter when Marybeth and Lynn stop birding to help rescue a man being pulled out to sea at Grande Isle (their binoculars enable rescuers to locate the man).

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Indeed, most of what we knew about Emperor Penguins before Kooyman’s research expeditions was about their breeding behavior and physiology. 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.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2020

But I only rehabbed birds, so I had to do research and call my mammal rehabber friends. I do occasional rescues, though, because everyone still has my number. And don’t forget, I’m the one coming out of solitude and ready to rejoin humanity in March of 2020. Perch Press (March 24, 2020). ISBN: 0578612003.

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