10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Nick Lund pretty much says it all when he writes, “Maine left Massachusetts in 1820 to become its own state and took the best of New England with it” (p. ” (Some titles are still available; A Birder’s Guide to Southeastern Arizona, for example, was updated as recently as 2018.).

Los Angeles 210

Los Angeles Birds District of Columbia Parrots 210

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2020

And, in contrast to all the blog posts that were expanded into essays, Jenn Dean’s “The Keepers of the Ghost Bird,” the story of the fight to save the Bermuda Petrel, the cahow, was originally published as an e-book by The Massachusetts Review (in which format it won the 2018 John Burrough’s Association Nature Essay Award).

New York City 198

New York City Birds Owls Fox 198

10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2016

Hayward, a 39-year old Brit who relocated to Massachusetts for work reasons and stayed, even developing a love of baseball (his Red Sox hat was famously one of his field marks in 2013), started his Big Year late. Supporting characters like Jay Lehman and Chris Hitt, big year birders present and past, start making more frequent appearances.

2013 108

2013 Arizona Birds San Diego 108