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. Perhaps heard?

Trinidad 277

Trinidad Owls Barn Owls Abandon 277

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). And a few years later, I read of her experience birding with me at one of the larger birding web sites and learned that E. What were your experiences with bird guides?

Factory 160

Factory Abandon Abandoning Abandonment 160

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.

Bats 155

Bats Birds Vanuatu Namibia 155

4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

Grief, friendship, gratitude, wonder, and other things we animals experience. Waterfall Dances: Do animals have spiritual experiences? Sometimes a chimpanzee, usually an adult male, will dance at a waterfall with total abandon. to live out their lives in peace, absent the abuse they had suffered in the entertainment industry.

Emotional 100

Emotional Animal Whales Whaling 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 19, 2017

They are the Desert Wheatears and Siberian Thrushes that abandon all reason and fly to Britain (maybe they heard about the UK Birdfair ?). Sadly, much of that remaining rare habitat in Cartago has also been drained and built upon, the last largest remnant occurring in an industrial and farming area known as Coris.

Costa Rica 100

Costa Rica San Jose Falcons Nicaragua 100