Abandon Birds Experience Hunting 
10,000 Birds
MAY 9, 2022
It’s a slim volume, a republication, mostly, of a chapter from her fine 2010 book Birdology , with some added material including an introduction, in which she describes how she has, a decade after her first experience with falconry (as described in the main part of the book), “come back for more.” Could I do this?”
10,000 Birds
APRIL 27, 2022
Some of my earliest bird-related memories (what other memories even exist?) 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. Visitors to the Caroni Bird Sanctuary can often see a pair roosting together in the mangrove.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 28, 2014
The next day we tried mist netting the cave entrance, and the day after I abandoned the project entirely. I have, for the most part, been able to avoid caves since that experience. And this cave has lots of nests, so much so that there is a (sustainable) industry in collecting their nests for birds-nest soup.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 5, 2012
Birding’s Holy Grails. We pour over photographs, read with envy the eye-witness accounts of the “lucky ones” and fabricate secret plans to abandon our loved ones and embark on expensive trips to track them down. One of the most highly desirable birds in the world, the Pel’s Fishing Owl is a true phantom.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 15, 2012
The first was Lewis Binford, who noted, correctly, that if you look at actual animal bones from actual archaeological sites, you could not objectively see clear evidence that would distinguish hunting from scavenging, and if you compared these “food remains” to hyena food remains, they looked roughly the same.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 26, 2018
A bit of background: Pink Pigeons are medium-sized, pink/gray/ brown birds found on the island of Mauritius, Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar. Mauritius may sound familiar, it was also the home of one of our most famous extinct birds—the Dodo. Don’t these birds care about propagating their species? I know, that’s harsh.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 30, 2011
As a youngster of 10-weeks old, it is abandoned by its parents and left to fend for itself. Each year 120,000 birds visit the island to breed from March through August in burrows that riddle the landscape. A pair of birds in a nesting burrow share the parental responsiblities and change shifts under the cover of darkness.
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