10,000 Birds
AUGUST 8, 2012
Whenever I get my hands on a trade publication for any industry, my favorite thing to do is see what is being advertised in the magazine. And when it comes to field work, you can’t beat some of my office mates, like this above Indigo Bunting who serenades me when I’m changing data cards and batteries in bat detectors.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 27, 2021
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 15, 2021
Ok, maybe not the vampire bat…but some of the more “cuddly” species are actually quite easy to see. Decades of trapping for the pet industry drove them to the brink of extinction, and their survival into the future was seriously in doubt.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 18, 2020
Ears filled with birdsong and no industrial hum? Many moons ago, when I used to work in the (supposedly) booming petrochemical industry in Trinidad, most of my time was actually spent birding. Sign me up! Going birding is even more of a no-brainer now than before. I was thrilled to see a Short-tailed Hawk fly in.
10,000 Birds
MAY 28, 2014
There were opportunities to go to far flung places like the islands of the Pacific or the coast of Canada or the Yorkshire Dales… Anyway, as I was obsessed by Africa at the time, I leapt at the opportunity to go to Namibia to collect samples of bat DNA for a biogeography project. I think we caught perhaps three bats.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 29, 2019
First stop is the nearby Llobregat Delta reserve, a network of canals and pine forests squeezed in between the airport and industrial plants. The dirt road winds along hillsides, next to vineyards and through the pine forest with a lot of bat boxes. The road follows the riverbank overgrown with reeds. Enough is enough.
10,000 Birds
JULY 2, 2020
The graveyard shift is on duty: several bats are chasing insects through the evening coolness. It should be added that 10% of the population of the Bajina Basta municipality, where the park is located, is connected with timber industry, full time or through seasonal employment, and logging makes for an important sector of the local economy.
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