10,000 Birds
JUNE 17, 2021
Yet, the environmental problems are pulling people together, uniting the people with very different political views with the simplest of all agendas: “We want to breathe clean air, we want clean tap water.” It is a spacious floodplain between the River Danube and the levee, 2.1 mi at its widest point and some 9 km2 / 3.5
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 16, 2012
Proposal: Creation of a Federal Wildlife Conservation Stamp A birder, wildlife watcher, photographer and non-hunter version of the Federal Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp (aka Federal Duck Stamp). She says, “there’s just a cultural bias against anything related to hunting.”
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10,000 Birds
JANUARY 16, 2012
We switched up our agenda and decided to join Seth and Gene and a trio of Staten Islanders on a trip around Long Island looking for lingering rarities and anything else that we might manage to come across on a full day’s birding.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 5, 2011
Interestingly, if this reading is correct, Sandburg sets up the man who is opposed to “doctrinaire&# behavior by birds as doctrinaire and by expressing support for l’art pour l’art , which could be seen as pushing an instructional agenda in the poem,sets himself up as didactic. What does “Purple Martins&# say to you?
10,000 Birds
MAY 27, 2017
Overhead, we got our first species in the form of a calling Black-bellied Whistling-Duck. Next on the agenda was the drive up and over the mountains with time to check for Bare-shanked Screech-Owl and Dusky Nightjar. One down, a few hundred to go and now we didn’t have to swing by a nearby pond to get it.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 11, 2018
I chalked up 132 species in a pretty relaxed eight days, during which birds shared the agenda with culture. Ducks and herons include Garganey and Ferruginous Duck , Squacco and Purple Herons , as well as the Eurasian Spoonbill. Black Stork and three pairs of White-tailed Eagles breed here.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 7, 2012
And yet, we birders know it refers ot a particular shade of purplish red, as used to describe a duck, or a ground-dove, or a turnstone. The birders scattered and went on to other things, including my group which had Harlequin Ducks and Black-chinned Hummingbirds on the agenda. The Pac Loon never made an appearance.
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