10,000 Birds
AUGUST 18, 2018
The Weekly Reader had shocked everyone in class with news of Bald Eagles dying – and humans were to blame! Fast forward to the next decade and humans were at it again. Eleven million gallons of oil suffocated 1,300 miles of shoreline in my beloved Alaska. Fast forward to the next decade and humans were at it again.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 23, 2015
A number of years ago I was granted the privilege of flying into the Kuparuk Oil Field, above the Arctic Circle in the remote regions of the North Slope Borough in Alaska. How it is being affected by human intrusions? The relationship between this bird and other animals and plants? His answer surprised me. Its natural longevity?
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10,000 Birds
MAY 13, 2021
As all my cats are indoor animals, I do not feel particularly responsible or guilty for this. Interestingly, these heronries frequently seem to be near highway exits – either because these relatively ugly places are less likely to be disturbed by humans, or because this shortens the commute of those birds working in downtown offices.
10,000 Birds
MAY 24, 2016
It is found as far north as Alaska and as far south as Mexico, taking its place as one of Mexico’s official symbols. In fact, according to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology , “The Golden Eagle is the most common official national animal in the world – it’s the emblem of Albania, Germany, Austria, Mexico, and Kazakhstan.”
10,000 Birds
JULY 22, 2014
When you think of invasives, you think of the birds that have been helped by human beings to get where they are, such as House Sparrow or European Starling. They feed on insects stirred up by the herds, at times sitting on the animal itself picking off ticks and other insects. a Cattle Egret in Brooklyn. a Cattle Egret in Brooklyn.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 17, 2015
They feed on animal plankton and build their nests by burrowing in the dirt on offshore islands. Their total population, from the Baja Peninsula to Alaska’s Aleutian Islands, is estimated at somewhere between 1 million and 3.5 This is something I may also be able to promise to possibly write up later in more detail!
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 28, 2015
While it makes a passing attempt to say not all scientists are like these monstrous fiends (or truly arrogant, as she dubs them) it mostly focuses on these monstrous fiends simply to prove that scientists in wildlife conservation can be monstrous fiends, particularly compared to the environment-loving oil industry of Alaska.
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