10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
Bearing witness to the cyclical fluctuations of the seasons is a boon to the psyche on a level that tends to go unnoticed and unannounced. The first step in preparing for the breeding season is getting ready for courtship. Gifts are presented, heads are bowed, and tails are cocked. Are we ready to welcome the next season?
Animal Person
DECEMBER 17, 2009
Black Bear. At VLS, the financial aid people sit you down during your first semester, I think to assess your grip on the reality of your fiscal present and future. Enter Black Bear Crestfallen, I schlepped my sorry self from my minuscule apartment, across the Village Green toward the coffee shop.
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 30, 2021
On the breeding grounds of the north, a small bird flies into the night, takes a bearing for the south, gains altitude and flies onward. If presented with the opportunity, there’s other things that would eat a bird too. Migrant birds make an incredibly perilous journey, twice per year. The equation seems incredible.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 15, 2016
Farallon NWR , a group of islands near San Francisco, hosts the largest colonies of breeding seabirds south of Alaska. These refuges support huge numbers of swans, geese, ducks, cranes, and shorebirds as they hopscotch their way to breeding grounds in the north. These protected areas are not merely convenient, they are essential.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 14, 2019
However, even now, the ancient movements of birds between summer breeding grounds and tropical wintering places have been taking place in Costa Rica. Barn Swallows were also present along with a few Banks. In the meantime, I hope to bear witness to the continued spectacle of fall migration right at the homestead and further afield.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 25, 2019
North American warblers, on the other hand, often bear names of, at best, marginal utility. Naming a bird species for the part of the world in which it breeds or resides makes sense. Most of the warblers south of the border escaped this ignominy; those Basileuterus and Myiothlypis species generally appear exactly as advertised.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 1, 2021
The first guide bearing the National Audubon Society imprint was Audubon Bird Guide; Eastern Land Birds , written by Richard Hooper Pough, and illustrated by Don Eckelberry. The only exception is the Conservation section, which presents keys for the conservation icons. Audubon guides to birds have been around since 1946.
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