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. Chestnut-fronted Macaws Ara severa.

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Peru Parrots 2011 South America 255

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2011

Will anyone ever break Sandy Komito’s record of 745 birds in North America area in one year? Kudos to him for all the research he did to make people more aware of birding. 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!)

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New York City New York New Hampshire Research Center 157

Animal Ethics

AUGUST 17, 2007

9): Gail Collins writes: “Human-ape conversation was a very hot topic back in the late 1960s, when researchers first taught a chimpanzee named Washoe to use sign language. The Great Ape Trust is the only place in America where this kind of research still goes on.” To the Editor: Re “An Ape Types in Iowa” (column, Aug.

New York Times 40

New York Times New York Apes Georgia 40

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. to a high of 11%. Isn’t that neat?

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 252