10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 22, 2019
Next Thursday is the American Thanksgiving holiday – which means it’s time to trot out that old legend concerning Benjamin Franklin’s opinions on two iconic American birds: The Wild Turkey ( Meleagris gallopavo ) and the Bald Eagle ( Haliaeetus leucocephalus ). He is a Bird of bad moral Character.
10,000 Birds
MAY 6, 2011
The Bald Eagle is the national bird of the United States of America. No explanation of his decision is known to exist, though he did simply state “The Escutcheon is born on the breast of an American Eagle without any other supporters to denote that the United States of America ought to rely on their own Virtue.&#
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 28, 2013
Yes, the Wild Turkey is North America’s largest game bird. Benjamin Franklin disapproved of the selection of the Bald Eagle as our national bird, calling it “a Bird of bad moral Character.” An overwhelming majority of turkeys polled feel that Thanksgiving is not actually Turkey Day.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 25, 2020
And, given the complicated questions of morality inherent in various parts of her story, she has the perfect (and perfectly ambiguous) ending. Two days after September 11, 2001 (of course) on a day in the mountains when she sees, for the first time in her life, Bald Eagles (of course) Alejandra becomes pregnant.
10,000 Birds
JULY 4, 2022
I wonder what Americans would think if, in a Wikipedia entry, a Bald Eagle would be illustrated using a photo taken at an Albanian zoo. As Cincinnati is sort of the place where one of my favorite bands, The National, comes from, I am not going to grumble too much about it. But I am grumbling a little bit about it.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 14, 2011
The sandhill crane has the lowest recruitment rate (average number of young birds joining a population each season) of any bird now hunted in North America. AND you can use lead shot, which will impact any scavenger like a bald eagle that happens to feed on the carcass you leave. to a high of 11%. It’s free!
10,000 Birds
MARCH 4, 2017
uses the zoogeographical ecozones and denotes North, Central and South America (Nearctic and Neotropical realms) as western and the rest of the world (Palearctic, Afrotropical, Indomalayan, Australasian) as eastern. White-bellied Sea-Eagle – Haliaeetus leucogaster. Bald Eagle – Haliaeetus leucocephalus.
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