10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 31, 2015

” Without diminishing the importance of any local Big Days, although Big Day birding has been popular and reaching new heights in North America for more than a decade, major attempts at truly breaking the world record have only taken place the past few years. My Big Day has been a huge deal for the past thirty years!”

Costa Rica 164

Costa Rica South Africa Kenya Ecuador 164

10,000 Birds

JULY 23, 2014

They took dogs to Australia, chickens across the Pacific, rabbits to England, horses to the New World, and then brought potatoes back. It should surprise no one that someone brought horses, or goats, or chickens. California Quail are familiar birds to West Coast birders of North America, and Kiwis too now. But hedgehogs?

New Zealand 161

New Zealand Possums Rabbits Ferrets 161

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

Before I delve into details about the poem I should probably share it with you so we have a text in common: Purple Martins If we were such and so, the same as these, maybe we too would be slingers and sliders, tumbling half over in the water mirrors, tumbling half over at the horse heads of the sun, tumbling our purple numbers.

Chicago 178

Chicago Geese Horses Agenda 178

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 28, 2017

Birds begin to filter down through this southern part of Central America by August but the biggest avian movement happens during the third and final weeks of October. We might not get the variety of a New Jersey autumn but we do get major numbers of species that winter in South America. In Costa Rica, October is our May.

Costa Rica 153

Costa Rica Birds Parrots Farming 153

Animal Ethics

MARCH 11, 2007

To the Editor: Re “ We Eat Horses, Don’t We? ,” by Christa Weil (Op-Ed, March 5): Ms. Horses slaughtered in America today go not to feed the poor and the hungry but to satisfy the esoteric palates of wealthy diners in Europe and Japan. But horses are not cows, pigs or chickens. John Hettinger Pawling, N.Y.,

New York Times 40

New York Times New York Horse Slaughter Horses 40

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Howell and Jon Dunn list “overall size and structure” as the fundamental first step in gull identification in their classic Gulls of the Americas (though they then go on to describe endless variations of plumage patterns). Five species are grouped in a chapter titled (4) Dark Horse Gulls (Rare or Unlikely Gulls).

North America 195

North America America El Salvador Nicaragua 195

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The Salvia mexicana is sold in North America with the varietal name “Limelight” But this one was wild, native, and beautiful. While not my quite my first sighting of an Olive-sided Flycatcher for 2020, this difficult species is always a welcome find as it makes it way through Mexico to reach Central and South America.

2020 260

2020 Birds South America Reptiles 260

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Located within a Puinave indigenous reserve, these remnants of ancient parent-rock are some of the oldest geological formations in all of South America. Yet, we had a good two hours or almost 50 kilometres by 75 horse-powered speedboat to reach Inirida at sunset. Black-collared Swallow by Tyler Ficker.

Dolphins 258

Dolphins Colombia Otters Birds 258

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 10, 2018

I suspect this will be the first and last time we’ll see a beer featuring this species, an introduced Old-World songbird best known in North America from its St. If you can advertise beer with Clydesdale horses, bull terriers, and bullfrogs, I don’t see why you can’t use a Eurasian Tree Sparrow. Louis, Missouri population.

Collecting 100

Collecting St. Louis Dogs Sparrows 100

Critter News

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

The Animal Legal Defense Fund is working to ensure convicted animal abusers are exposed and prevented from harming new victims by promoting model legislation that would establish an animal abuser registry in every community across America. Animal abuse is not only a danger to our cats, dogs, horses, and other animals, but also to people.

ALDF 100

ALDF Animal Abuse Animal Legal Defense Fund Legislation 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Take the fossil horse Hipparion , found in France and Florida. How far could those horses swim? The Bering Land Bridge linking Siberia to North America is an example. How did it end up in those two places and nowhere else? This is a long and roundabout way to introduce one such biogeographical oddity today.

Horses 165

Horses France North America Fiji 165

10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2016

However, just like the Yellow Wagtail complex, it seems that some forms will eventually be split off even by conservative authorities, e.g. the form personata , and my prediction is that eventually the vast majority of the 9 forms will be elevated to species level.

Germany 100

Germany Sharks Morocco Europe 100