10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

And though this beer was brewed in America’s Motor City, it boasts a true Eastern European pedigree in its hops, Lublin and Saaz, two varieties that respectively hail from the Polish and Czech cities of the same name (though Saaz is more properly known these days by its Czech name Žatec).

Poland 137

Poland Detroit New York City Eagles 137

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2011

I mention all of this because we in North America, especially the southern part of North America, have storks too. This is a bird with some pedigree. This begs the question, how did the Wood Stork end up in the Americas with relatives so far away? Where White Storks are beautiful, ours are grotesque.

North America 170

North America Pedigree South Carolina Brazil 170

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2011

The ABA is still considering its response to the gull and its provenance, but more to the point, Jochen has called its pedigree into question by asserting that it is a Ring-billed Gull x Black-headed Gull hybrid. With my tuppence, I would like to put forward that this is a Grey-headed Gull.

South Africa 171

South Africa Pedigree Africa New York 171

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2019

Books about birds are a wealth of written and pictorial information to birders, and an exalted few have become watersheds in the history of ornithological study: Ornithologiae by Francis Willughby, Birds of America by John James Audubon, and Guide to the Birds by Roger Tory Peterson, to name just a few of the most legendary.

2015 113

2015 Italy Falcons Europe 113