10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2015

Second, reading about birds courting and parenting brings out the tendency to identify, which leads directly to anthropomorphism, the tendency to assign birds human emotions and thoughts. Think of birds too much as humans and you lose the specialness that makes them birds. Some people love books like that. But special.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2012

The largest flying land birds in North America, they appear like folded umbrellas at first, their wing feathers draped blanket-like, enveloping bodies that naturally weigh about 20 pounds at maturity. Condors, like all New World vultures, can disturb the human psyche. Their size doesn’t escape you. You think of turkey dressed in black.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

One thing that unites those three is that they’re spectacular species I’ve had multiple chances of seeing and so far missed. Going again and again to many of North America’s most hallowed birding shrines, developing a working knowledge of species most birders are lucky to see even once. Every human does.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 30, 2021

… – part 2 – Once I finish this writing, with a strange mix of emotions I will put the Lynx field guide Birds of Colombia to the bookshelf for the first time, more than half a year after I received it. Because of that, the bird has a manure-like odour and is only hunted by humans for food in times of dire need” [ Source ].

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Dolphins Colombia Otters Birds 264

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2011

crossing the Carribean and winding up in South America? Unless you are nothing but the lowly diehard lister, for which you should feel much shame and embarrassment for, birders and biologists alike frequently want to understand birds on a deeper level than how to identify the age, sex and species of a certain individual.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

And, to give his dream year a little more oomph, he created a grand once-in-a-lifetime goal: to track down and see every pitta species in the world in one year. That’s Pitta, people, not Antpitta, which is what I foolishly first envisioned, having never birded beyond the Americas.) And mosquitos. edition of the book in the fall. (At

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