10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2022

In three cases of adoption the common factor was that the adopting individual was sexually attracted to one of the real parents of the young. Great White Pelican is not just the name of a non-existent glam-rock band but also of a bird species. If that isn’t a great basic plot for a soap opera, then what is?

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 8, 2019

When I was a new birder, I adopted Pillar Point Harbor near Half Moon Bay as a “patch.”. There were so many birds flying so close to the few of us who happened to be there (mostly dog walkers) that there was concern that we’d actually get hit by a careening shearwater. There is satisfaction in the everyday.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 24, 2014

I started calling her, patting my knees (much like you’d call a dog, for gawd’s sake), “Sophie! Biologists are trying to get them to adopt nest boxes, but no luck with the CA birds so far. But I did one Brown Pelican release that was memorable. You can do this! Occasionally, youngsters fall from the weep holes.

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