10,000 Birds
APRIL 22, 2024
When I last visited the town almost 10 years ago, it had a Wild West feel, and Wikipedia claims that it is “an important location for trade with Myanmar, in both legal and illegal goods and services” but it seemed pretty tame to me this time. Not a great situation given the chronic housing shortage in suitable environments.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 7, 2023
Plume hunting raged supreme 150 years ago, when egret feathers were part of a worldwide trade in feathers and other bird parts, used for women’s hats and other articles of clothing (but mostly hats), delighting the upper classes and practically wiping out bird species. ©2023, Donna L. But this is not a hagiography.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 2, 2021
But most of our forest has a combination of both pines and oaks, with dozens of species from each family growing in the state of Michoacán. I can’t really blame the farmers, even though much of the expansion of avocado orchards is the product of illegal slash-and-burn practices (as in the photo below, which I took just last week).
10,000 Birds
JULY 25, 2022
There is an interesting study covered in an article titled “Willie Wagtails: The Werewolves of the Bird World” which at first glance might also seem to be catering to some superstition but which really analyzes potential reasons for males of this species sometimes singing at night.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 7, 2020
wrote a lengthy article in Outside magazine (Jan. The progression could be said to echo that of an earlier book about an obsessive nature criminal, The Orchard Thief by Susan Orlean, which started out as an article in The New Yorker.). 2019), and now this book. Author Joshua Hammer. photo credit: Cordula Krämer).
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 6, 2011
A Spanish version of the following article appeared in the 9/4/11 edition of the Honduran publication, La Tribuna. Many birds around the world in the Robin family ( Turdidae ) are favorites due to their musical songs. On top of being illegal to capture and sell birds in the country, it is also immoral. It is quite simple.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 15, 2015
I returned home with very mixed feelings, which have spurred this article. These strange birds are two species in their own family; White-necked or Yellow-headed, endemic to the Upper Guinea forests and Grey-necked or Red-headed, restricted to Lower Guinea forests. Ghana’s people are just as friendly as before.
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