10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 14, 2014
Birders know why Alaska is known as The Last Frontier. I’ve even paid a few calls to Massachusetts in the dead of winter for finches and owls. But until this past month, I’d never been to Alaska. I’m not sure what I expected when I finally got a look at Anchorage, the largest city in Alaska.
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. The relationship between this bird and other animals and plants? She runs Birds of Texas Rehabilitation Center in Austin County, Texas. His answer surprised me.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 4, 2023
How much do you know about owls? I’ve been fortunate to encounter many owls in my birding life, sometimes because I’m looking for them, sometimes happily by happenstance. What the Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds is a joyous, fascinating read. I don’t think so.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 18, 2018
Eleven million gallons of oil suffocated 1,300 miles of shoreline in my beloved Alaska. Terrestrial animals could drown; will not be able to access the necessary ranges; be trapped; suffer diminished genetic diversity; and possibly become extirpated and/or extinct. Fast forward to the next decade and humans were at it again.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 17, 2015
— and link that to something abut the Great Grey Owl and my BFF Analiese Miller who is an amazing, emerging, photographer who has recently trained her 300mm Cannon F4 lens on the birds (including the Great Grey) at Sax Zim. They feed on animal plankton and build their nests by burrowing in the dirt on offshore islands.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 5, 2018
I’m currently in a very intense on phase with this millennia-old craft, churning out sweaters and mini-mitten ornaments, and an abstract-looking owl. My grandmother taught me to knit when I turned nine, and since then I have knit on and off throughout my teens and twenties.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 25, 2013
The landbird community on Santa Cruz is a strange mix; Northern Saw-whet Owls , Grasshopper Sparrows , Merlins , Black-headed Grosbeaks , Hooded Orioles , Common Poorwills , Horned Larks are a few of the species found here. This is the Santa Cruz Island Rufous-crowned Sparrow , a subspecies endemic to Santa Cruz and Anacapa Islands.
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