10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2017

Nest-building must have been on their agenda, for they hopped this way and that with delicate moss bits hanging from their tiny beaks. For now, the population levels of the Pacific Wren are stable, with six million individuals spread out between the United States and Canada.

San Francisco 100

San Francisco Agenda United States 2010 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 17, 2016

After sixteen days touring the interior west and west coast of the United States with my family I am back in New York City. The birds weren’t high on the agenda while we were in Wyoming but I still managed to see some. I didn’t have much light to work with but a male Western Tanager can’t be ignored.

Idaho 105

Idaho Colorado Wyoming San Francisco 105

Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 6, 2009

In 2001, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated that irradiating half the meat and poultry consumed in the United States would mean 900,000 fewer cases of food-borne illness and 350 fewer deaths each year. Unfortunately, irradiated meat and poultry can’t be found on store shelves. Larry Katzenstein Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.,

New York Times 40

New York Times New York Hamburgers Meat Industry 40

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

A species which has been hunted in the United States for the last 50 years (and in spite of your assertion that hunting has somehow damaged midcontinent populations 2009 saw the highest count on record). Those opposed have anti-hunting agendas and can not be allowed to dictate what game species are hunted.

2011 251

2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 251