10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 17, 2022
We might have limited space but we make up for it with a massive amount of biodiversity including well over 900 bird species on the official Costa Rica bird list. With good reason, lots of birders visit Costa Rica and we also have a good sized local birding community. The sightings raise several questions.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 17, 2022
American White Pelicans spend their winter months along the Gulf states, California, parts of Arizona, and Mexico down into Central America. I cross my fingers that they make it safely, raising voracious chicks before returning to the Sunshine State once more.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 14, 2011
I’ve recently returned from a filming trip in Arizona where I have been working on a production for National Geographic on Harris’s (Harris) Hawks. Consider the following quote, &# Falconry involves the use of birds of prey to kill other birds and animals for sport. Take lions, wolves, hyenas to name a few.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 3, 2016
If the home birding patch is in Canada or the United States of America, it’s not really that far. I get some birds here and can expect some sweet avian surprises now and then (a rare migrant Black-billed Cuckoo would be nice for the year…), but my bird neighborhood is still nothing compared to the other side of the mountains.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 21, 2016
Birders have different definitions of stringers; a stringer can be either someone who completely fabricates a bird sighting, or someone (for our purposes today, not a rank beginner) who chronically misidentifies common birds, claiming they are something rare or unusual. I do not wish to bird with people who I don’t trust.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 31, 2012
The newest bird on the brink to capture her fertile imagination is the California Condor, on which she graciously shares her research and ruminations: Sometimes as a writer you recognize there’s been something overlooked in your midst—something quietly abiding. ” Yet, as he said, there are now over 200 birds on the wing in the wild.
Animal Ethics
FEBRUARY 6, 2007
The proposition outlaws raising pregnant sows in gestation crates and raising calves in veal crates , making Arizona the first state in the Union to ban veal crates. To learn more about Arizona's precedent-setting victory for farm animals, see here. 503 ) was approved in the U.S. Doublespeak at its worst.
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