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. Dirt hawking is a form of falconry that involves hunting rabbits and other small game with Harris Hawks (other hawk species also qualify). Survival of the fittest.
10,000 Birds
MAY 8, 2013
The Cherokee nation called them “Peace Eagles” owing to the fact that they never killed a living thing – and also that they tended to show up in numbers after battled when peace treaties were being signed, though admittedly that may have been for a slightly more macabre reason. California Condor , photo by Sheridan Woodley.
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 17, 2013
Free-roaming cats will hunt and kill birds, small mammals, reptiles, amphibians and fish, resulting in wildlife mortality. In Yuma, Arizona, they don’t take no prisoners. Trap-Neuter-Return is the only effective way to stabilize feral cat populations.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 27, 2013
I think it’s because it brings me back to my first big birding trip, to southeast Arizona, where we had tantalizing views of leaves rustling where the becards had nested but nested no more. There’s something about a Rose-throated Becard that makes my heart go pit-a-pat. I never saw the bird. Well, maybe a bit of a wing.
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