Abandon Abandoning Abandonment Industry 
10,000 Birds
APRIL 27, 2022
Today, Barn Owls can be found across both islands, hunting open fields at twilight or comfortably resting in abandoned relics of the sugar cane industry. Years later, a small group of us ventured into some forest adjoining abandoned cocoa estates in central Trinidad searching for a view of this bird.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 28, 2019
To avoid the traffic lights and rush hour, I drove through some forgotten, derelict industrial zone at the outskirts of the city (which is my usual shortcut). I picked up E. in the morning in front of her hotel. It was just the two of us in the car, going to a deserted area,” E. That would have been the last thing to come to my mind.
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10,000 Birds
JANUARY 5, 2012
Entire industries are built around preventing squirrels from completely devouring provisions intended for birds. The bird feeder arms race demands incessant innovation because of the utter fearlessness and abandon driving squirrels to plunder feeders.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 14, 2021
I kind of expected to see some sort of industrial wasteland; but a fair amount of forest is still there. I would have guessed it would be the first species to abandon this now-disturbed site. So on March 29th, I steeled myself emotionally, and went back to Pino Real for the first time in 18 months. But, thank God, it has not.
10,000 Birds
MAY 15, 2017
Sadly, the greeting card industry, flower shop proprietors, and chocolate makers have conspired to deny us half of the best weekend of the year for birding. Nor is it fair to the birder who might end up with great looks at a lifer but will be wracked by guilt for abandoning a mother on her special day. *Or,
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 19, 2020
Set in an abandoned oil refinery where wildlife is slowly regaining control save for the desperate attempts of golfers to retain all eighteen holes, industrial ghosts loom over rolling freshwater lakes bordered by fifty foot tall trees. Fortunately, throughout the tenure of the refinery many of the older, larger trees were preserved.
10,000 Birds
JULY 5, 2013
I’ve seen Yellow Warblers in the low shrubs of Western New York pastures, the river valleys of Missoula, and the trees of abandoned industrial sites in New York City. They are not shy, not given to skulking in dense underbrush or retreating to the crowns of great trees.
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