10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Unlike some of us who started birding in midlife, Rogers brings to her new passion an adventurous history of a life lived outdoors–rock climbing (serious rock climbing, not in a gym), kayaking, ballooning, environmental stewardship, time in Alaska and Antarctica–which she uses to inform her new birding experiences. Rogers can.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2011

Look at the facts, lay your emotions aside and listen to reason—exactly the same reasoning that’s been so persuasive in convincing me that hunting cranes is the right thing to do. There was a bounty on them in Alaska from 1917 until 1952—up to $2 a head! I get it now, I really do. I think it’s time to hunt Sandhill Cranes.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2021

There’s something off-putting about her prose – it’s immensely earnest, precious, and by turns giddy and despairing (“If there is a sadness as big as the galaxy, I feel it now”), so that neither of those latter two emotions is very believable. She now lives in Oregon and Alaska.)

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The 26 essays in When Birds Are Near are all about the real-life and emotional spaces where people overlap with birds. Paul Island, Alaska and has been reworked into an even more exceptional essay about guiding work on the island, where the unusual is the norm and bird guides use a tool kit of time and space.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Picture being a Blackpoll Warbler being born in the boreal forests of Alaska. Almost as soon as you leave the nest, you have the strong urge to migrate to a place called “Venezuela” Can you imagine how many potential choices and decisions are involved in flying from Alaska to the Atlantic Seaboard, flying down the eastern U.S.,

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 29, 2006

Very importantly, the breast-feeding years create emotional security in the child through the many hours of intimate contact with the mother. (Dr. The breast milk of vegan mothers is fully nutritious for infants, and contains the full compliment of energy, protein, and vitamins, needed for the rapid growth of life's first half year.

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