10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 8, 2019
When I was a new birder, I adopted Pillar Point Harbor near Half Moon Bay as a “patch.”. Pillar Point provided an easily accessible location to see a variety of shorebirds, scoters, loons, grebes, cormorants, ducks, and gulls, among others. The evening of September 7, 2012 was a truly memorable birding experience.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 13, 2012
Deadbeats To clarify, our more generous brothers and sisters on the extractive side of the wildlife appreciation line pay for licenses, excise taxes, and of course, the mighty Duck Stamp. It’s that damnable Duck Stamp. birding community promote the annual purchase of Duck Stamps. Birders pay bupkis. When the U.S.
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 28, 2020
While I don’t have a lot of experience with tropical terns, I believe that narrows it down to Sandwich Tern ( Thalasseus sandvicensis ), a bird that – while still quite rare in the Northeast – seems to be occurring with greater frequency , along with an increasingly northward incursion of Royal Terns ( Thalasseus maximus ).
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 19, 2012
In fact, experience proved that the process is actually way more cumbersome and time-consuming than it should be. Imagine having to clarify every pygmy-owl, every whistling-duck, every brush-finch… the autocomplete on my cell phone is smarter than this.
10,000 Birds
JULY 17, 2012
Baby ducks and chickens s are the mensches of the bird world; they don’t spend all that time sitting there uselessly and constantly demanding attention. One Northern Cardinal was even observed to have adopted a school of gaping goldfish at a pond where the fish were accustomed to begging from people! Some birds do this a little.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 10, 2018
While some people never overcome this vestigial aversion to sour and bitter sensations, this innate prejudice can be overturned with experience, becoming acquired tastes we learn to enjoy just as much as the more dependable, uncomplicated pleasures of sweetness, salt, and fat.
Animal Person
NOVEMBER 1, 2010
And I received confirmation of something I've known since 2004, when we adopted retired racing greyhound, Violet Rays: That there's sort of a critical period for dog-behavior acquisition, and if it's missed, the dog isn't likely to mature into the type of loving being whose behavior we've come to associate with "pet" dogs.
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