10,000 Birds

JANUARY 29, 2017

The hours are ticking down to Super Bowl LI, a hotly anticipated contest between perennial contenders New England Patriots and the upstart, high-flying Atlanta Falcons. Will the Atlanta Falcons actually win the Super Bowl? Of course, the team who conquered the best of the NFC can win the Super Bowl. But will they?

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Falcons Atlanta 2001 Game 105

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 8, 2012

Plus my New York Football Giants just advanced in the first round of the NFL playoffs. Note that I only condone this treatment for the highly localized Atlanta Falcon. Sure, I’m likely omitting some other far more important factors involving family, friends, and professional success, but the little things mean a lot.

Debeaking 163

Debeaking Atlanta 2011 United States 163

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2012

Even if you’re not ticking new sightings, pay attention to your FOY birds, the first of year sightings that commemorate the phenological passage of assorted avian species in and out of our life.

Atlanta 157

Atlanta Zimbabwe 2012 New York 157

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 16, 2011

It was a gusty weekend in New York City and environs, with fall finally feeling like fall is supposed to feel. Mike was in Costa Rica this weekend after what felt like an interminable delay at the airport in Atlanta where he had to change planes. How was your weekend?

Costa Rica 171

Costa Rica New York City Atlanta 2011 171

Animal Ethics

AUGUST 17, 2007

Georgia State University Atlanta, Aug. Georgia State and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development still support language training and cognitive research with four chimpanzees, and do other cognitive research work with resident populations of macaques and rhesus monkeys. Please don't say that they were born in captivity.

New York Times 40

New York Times New York Apes Georgia 40

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Sitta canadensis isn’t just irrupting out of its far northern home but exploding southward, with reports in every southern state except for Florida, including birds on the outer banks of North Carolina, on Grand Isle, Louisiana, in a suburb of Atlanta, and on the Gulf Coast of Texas. Bird bloggers from Wisconsin to Massachusetts.

United States 261

United States Owls Atlanta New York 261

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Here in New York, fall doesn’t begin until this afternoon at 4:02 PM, so I got in what will probably be this year’s first and last review of a saison – a classic and refreshing Belgian beer style generally favored for summer drinking – just under the wire. Trinity Brewing Le Capitaine Golden Saison Regal.

Georgia 100

Georgia Colorado Tennessee Atlanta 100