10,000 Birds

JANUARY 12, 2024

I remember the guide on my first Kenyan birding safari remarking that “birding groups always see far more mammals than those who come just to see animals. At the time (1968) sightings of lynx in the Doñana were extremely rare as the animals were so shy: I was extremely fortunate to have this encounter. (I

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

While tracking brown bears in Greece some time ago, B. stayed to rrroar to the locals, also visit their homesteads, to see which races of domestic animals they breed, etc. His host’s house was smoke-blackened, everything but his shiny hunting rifles. Still, this was a hunting chase and not the proper ecotourism, but B.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The book is chiefly about how people have conceptualized and studied birds, but there is an underlying theme, the changing ways in which our Western culture has viewed animals, nature and God. It’s a huge scope for a 338-page book. There’s the Neolithic era; Ancient Egypt (bird mummies!);

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