10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

ELs are fat around the waist, their weight is more pronounced towards the front end, and when you raise your fingers, letting ELs rest only against your thumbs, they start falling down, front end first. And when you raise your fingers, well balanced NLs happily rest against your thumbs, not falling to either side.

Chile 304

Chile Argentina Raised Serbia 304

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 28, 2014

This dirt road was the soybean truck-nightmare; about every 10 minutes we had large double-trailer trucks filled with soybeans drive very fast and raise a huge dust cloud that took another 5 minutes to settle. The first views of a Brown Cachalote made up for all of the dust sucking experience. Brown Cachalote. Crested Hornero.

Argentina 186

Argentina Farming Chile Birds 186

4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

Grief, friendship, gratitude, wonder, and other things we animals experience. Waterfall Dances: Do animals have spiritual experiences? Tika and her longtime mate, Kobuk, had raised eight litters of puppies together and were enjoying their retirement years in the home of my friend, Anne. by Marc Bekoff.

Emotional 100

Emotional Animal Whales Whaling 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 30, 2011

The long shifts before swapping duties reduce the number of times that the birds have to run the gauntlet of the gulls and increase their chances of succesfully raising the chick to the age of abandonment. The shearwaters make good subjects for homing experiments. While one bird sits, its mate feeds out at sea for a week or so.

United Kingdom 160

United Kingdom Brazil Eggs Abandon 160