10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 18, 2023
Virtually overnight, the Whinchats had disappeared and were replaced by European Stonechats adopting the same positions on vantage points across the island. These birds were omnipresent on the bushes and fence posts on the upper land of the island during the first weeks of my stay.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 4, 2021
Some Floridians to this day claim that all Grey-headed Swamphen present in their state were born in Kenya (in birding circles, these are known as “birthers”), and that the species should thus be removed from the American list. In 2013, it was even included in the birdwatching list of the American Birding Association.
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 7, 2019
In my adoptive country of Mexico, however, site discovery is not only possible, but necessary. A male was also present. None of the above lowland species were present, which suggests that they are all altitudinal migrants, seeking out cooler and moister climes in the hot months just before our monsoon rains kick in.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 23, 2019
This writing of conquest onto the so-called natural world is an example of what the late Peruvian sociologist Anibal Quijano called the “Coloniality of Power,” a concept Quijano coined, and which many others have adopted , to describe the fundamental role colonialism has played in organizing modern social life and knowledge. Well, no more!
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 28, 2018
A year ago, we presented a barleywine, a very strong beer, as a stand-in for the traditional Champagne in our New Year’s Eve edition of Birds and Booze.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 30, 2015
The early teen years are prime time for kids to adopt environmentalism as a cause. Having been a lonely fourteen-year-old girl myself lo these many years ago, this isn’t necessarily unrealistic, but it’s presented rather uncritically.
10,000 Birds
MAY 5, 2020
Major subspecies are presented–“Myrtle” and “Audubon’s” forms of Yellow-rumped Warbler, the five forms of Dark-eyed Junco, etc.–but The Accounts present text on the left and images on the right. I loved that page title).
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