10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

Found throughout South America in ever-dwindling numbers these extremely beautiful birds – threatened by habitat destruction and collection for the wild bird trade – are often difficult to see and hard to find. That’s right – birds eating clay. Wicked, right? And that’s just in the lowlands! Hat-tip to Stella.

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Peru Parrots 2011 South America 255

Animal Ethics

AUGUST 17, 2007

The Great Ape Trust is the only place in America where this kind of research still goes on.” In fact, the Language Research Center at Georgia State University has engaged in continuous social, cognitive and biobehavioral research on primates, including language training and research, since 1981.

New York Times 40

New York Times New York Apes Georgia 40

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2011

Will anyone ever break Sandy Komito’s record of 745 birds in North America area in one year? But it took me six years to get the last one paid off (maxed out five credit cards–which I would NEVER recommend to anyone!) In 1998, there were only 918 species on the ABA Checklist. Today, in 2011, there are 956 or is it 957 species?

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New York City New York New Hampshire Research Center 157

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

For my new book, due out in 2012 from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, I’ve been researching sandhill crane hunting. 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. Wicked, right? to a high of 11%. Isn’t that neat?

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 254