10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

The opening beautifully encapsulates the essence of the book. The book, like the opening scene, is a deft combination of her personal observations of birds most of us rarely see, in a wild place very few people have visited, and of the natural histories of these birds. Do I need to say anything more? And, this was badly needed.

Fox 100

Fox Albatross Geese Bald Eagle 100

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

This is the birding adventure book supreme. Gooddie gets the book off to a quick start by describing his love affair with pittas (“the ultimate forest prize”), and detailing his decision to give up a good career as sales director of an audio manufacturing company (“my life was out of whack”). (He And sun bears. And mosquitos.

Hunters 192

Hunters Sri Lanka Asia Solomon Islands 192

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

According to Wikipedia, these birds are good at multitasking, being “in some parts of its range … known as a symbol of luck, longevity, and fidelity” As in humans, “the social implications of dancing [among the cranes] are complex in meaning” ( source ). If everybody did this, the result would be chaos.

Birds 200

Birds Eggs Bald Eagle Owls 200

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 14, 2018

I first learned the term “shifting baseline syndrome” a few years ago in Aaron Hirsh’s lyrical book about the Sea of Cortez, Telling Our Way to the Sea. There’s a certain suburbanization of the natural as well as the human world.

New York Times 140

New York Times Montana Oregon Deer 140

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 26, 2016

In her book, “ On a Wing and a Prayer, “ Sarah Woods describes the bird that captured her interest when she first visited Panama: “At more than one metre tall and able to kill a monkey with a single swipe of its powerful, knife-like talons, [H]arpy [E]agles are incredibly hard to find.” A Harpy Eagle. ”

Panama 100

Panama Grizzly Bear Porcupines Eagles 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Wuerthner states, “Perhaps the most significant and obvious conflict between the goals of the NAMWC and actual behavior of state agencies has to do with management of predators, particularly bears, cougars, coyotes and wolves. Those whose actions result in additional costs should bear them. The exploiter/developer pays.

Wildlife 238

Wildlife Coyotes Hunters Wolves 238

10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2022

.” And after separating all the parts of the boluses and presumably weighing them, your conclusion would have been that “the most regularly occurring food items recorded are fish (63%) and insects (33%)” (the other 4% are the few remaining bits of chocolate and gummy bears brought to the chicks by their grandparents.

Birds 162

Birds South Korea Japan Abandon 162

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

In fact, the Dodo belonged to a clade (sometimes called Raphini) of 15 remarkable, bizarre, intriguing island-adapted pigeons, some of which are still alive today, but eight of which have been hacked from the tree of life, driven to extinction by humans. The bird’s skeleton bears similarities to New Guinea’s much smaller (!)

Solomon Islands 275

Solomon Islands Guinea Mauritius Humane 275

Animal Person

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

In the majority of cases, it is humans who are to blame for the plunging numbers of animals, and Corwin is very clear about the extent to which we have destroyed the world around us. Those are the final words of the book. But for now, we have a book that describes how we got here and what we might do. We can--and we must" (222).

Polar Bears 100

Polar Bears California Condor Bald Eagle Lions 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2020

1879-1886 edition illustrated by Randolph Caldecott, for whom the medal awarded annually for “most distinguished American picture book for children” is named. The cover of “Babes in the Wood” from a c. “No burial this pretty pair. From any man receives. Till robin redbreast piously. Covers them with leaves.”

Ireland 158

Ireland Branding Spain Compassion 158

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2011

I wanted to butter you up before corrupting your namesake (and image) laurent Mar 16th, 2011 at 8:17 am I remember having read the excellent book from Alexandra David-Néel, who was the first european woman to travel to Lhassa in Tibet, in the 1920′s. Might I assume that women typically bear fewer children, or fewer survive?

2011 209

2011 Breeders Breeding Deer 209

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

Geophagy, the intentional consumption of soil by vertebrates, has long been documented in a number of bird and mammal species – including wide-spread use by humans – which consume soil to increase absorption of certain minerals not naturally occurring in the local diet. Spring is the perfect season to take this book for a spin!

Peru 255

Peru Parrots 2011 Research Center 255