10,000 Birds

MARCH 30, 2018

It was with a mix and horror and skepticism that I first read about the unholy marriage of Peeps and beer recently perpetrated by Fort Worth brewers The Collective Brewing Project and their partners in this crime at Lone Star Taps & Caps. Certainly – before this review, at least – I had never actually bought a box.

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Fort Worth ALA Texas Investigation 117

10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2014

The star of such huge concentrations is the massive Jabiru , towering over a diverse collection of South American waterbirds such as Sunbittern , Plumbeous Ibis , and Southern Screamer. Alas, it was over too soon.

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Brazil Birds Blackbirds Paraguay 165

10,000 Birds

MARCH 30, 2012

Maybe I’m weird, but there is nothing I like better in a visitor center (aside from clean and comfortable restrooms) than a good taxidermy collection, and Lee Metcalf features a strong entry in this category. At last we plunged into the woods, hoping for Great Horned Owls.

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Wildlife Montana Geese Bald Eagle 167

10,000 Birds

MARCH 29, 2011

Collecting nectar is not a random occurrence. But alas for Aderman no such need exists today. A high metabolism and the ability to rotate their wings through 180 degrees enables these little gems to fly forward, backward and pretty much everything in between.

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Ecuador Giraffes ALA Species 240

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Ever since I was a kid I wanted to learn how to draw, but alas I never made it past the stickman. Published in 1966, it is a collection of brief profiles and magnificent portraits of 56 of the region’s most characteristic birds. More precisely I wanted to learn how to draw wildlife. I guess it’s a gift you either have or you don’t.

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Birds Woodpeckers Canada Collecting 214

10,000 Birds

APRIL 27, 2022

All were started from collected seeds. Alas, I have found no viable acorns anywhere this past year — just as I am figuring out how to get oak seedlings to survive. But last year I was able to double my oak population, with three new gathered-acorn seedlings, so perhaps these fungi are taking hold on our lot. But I want more!

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Mexico Collecting ALA Sparrows 227

10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2022

But their broad collection of rather odd sounds (moans, groans, hoots, screeches, and bill rattles) also do not include anything remotely like a “ beep beep “ Popular media getting bird calls wrong. Alas, we did not hear our Roadrunners vocalize, although I have heard sing on one other visit to La Escalera.

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Coyotes Mexico ALA Abandon 195

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Alas, one would be wrong – I immediately mixed it up with the rather similar-looking Rufous-bellied Niltava (not shown here). The Indochinese Green Magpie is one of four species of green magpie (it used to be only three, but one of the subspecies collected enough frequent flier miles to get an upgrade to full species).

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China Birds Pythons Eagles 226

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The Winter Gull Survey (WinGS) will run over the winters of 2023/24 and 2024/25 to collect updated information on the numbers and distributions of these wintering gulls in the UK, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man. Alas, there wasn’t this year, but this wasn’t due to a sudden collapse in bird numbers, but the weather.

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Ireland Turtles Geese Farming 217

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Anyway, so I started checking my bird photo collection for photos of species starting with an A (after all, this is a bird photo blog, though I sometimes tend to forget this). It probably still is crap (though I have to admit I am a bit curious to watch one episode again, just to be sure, you know …).

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South Africa China Nevada Africa 319

10,000 Birds

APRIL 22, 2011

We stayed at the Yellow Bay Biological Research Station, a cozy collection of buildings located, logically enough, on a slope overlooking a bay lined with yellow sandstone on the eastern shore of the lake. Alas, my hoped-for Tundra Swan did not materialize despite the proximity of Swan River National Wildlife Refuge.

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ALA Bald Eagle Mules Turkey 160

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2018

Traditionally, the slow season, but the beats have mopped their collective brow and outdone their previous efforts. Veliko blato lake NR / Mika Alas fish farm–IBA Uš?e Veliko blato lake NR / Mika Alas fish farm–IBA Uš?e Veliko blato lake NR / Mika Alas fish farm–IBA Uš?e And so to summer. 10 May 2018.

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2018 Australia Woodpeckers Los Angeles 101