10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 24, 2015
Though I have been birding for a few years now, I had only birded west of the Mississippi once before my recent trip to Austin, Texas. Because of this, areas around the city that were once sleepy are now “urban,” with humans and wildlife struggling to keep up. I saw this first-hand during an afternoon studio walk.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 15, 2012
The topic was the concept of humans as predators, or hunters, or really, eaters of meat, and I was discussing the many ways in which people misconceived this notion. ” And they got up and left, and I never did get that monograph back from Eric. So that was the first argument for a scavenging phase.
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 8, 2023
The first is that the illustrations by Dale Dyer are based, and largely seem to be the same, as the illustrations for his previous guide Birds of Central America: Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama (co-authored with Andrew Vallely, PUP, 2018). Fantasy is the key word here. Doing this work takes time!
10,000 Birds
MAY 30, 2019
Raised in and around the West Texas steppe country where temperatures reached 100 degrees with regularity, he began life as the Dust Bowl and Great Depression converged. His parents moved where opportunity beckoned, taking him from San Angelo, Texas, to Columbus, New Mexico, then to Dallas, and finally on to California.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 5, 2022
Today’s vagrant could be tomorrow’s resident, a change that is visibly happening with, for example, the Clay-colored Thrush in southern Texas. There are many more factors than I imagined: compass errors, wind drift, overshooting, extreme weather and irruptions, natural dispersal, and human-driven vagrancy.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 14, 2015
Florida is one of America’s great avian hot spots, renowned for its impressive bird diversity. This common bird is also the state bird for Arkansas, Texas (another avian hot spot), Tennessee, and Mississippi, so Florida even misses points for originality. Think as a human you are immune? The striking Snail Kite?
10,000 Birds
APRIL 13, 2021
The survey was commissioned by National Flyway Council (NFC), which implements the North American Waterfowl Management Plan (NAWMP), which, in turn, aims to maintain abundant waterfowl populations in North America. Nearly all respondents knew of wetlands nearby (93%) and most had visited wetlands in the past 12 months (88%).”.
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