10,000 Birds
AUGUST 2, 2022
Going back to that assumption that birds don’t have a sense of smell, it can be traced to John James Audubon (of course), who performed several experiments with Turkey Vultures and concluded that the vultures used sight, not scent, to find food. Whittaker started asking questions beyond “do birds have a sense of smell?”
10,000 Birds
JUNE 10, 2020
There are lots of online sources of information on bird-friendly gardening, but much of this information is oriented towards those who live in temperate climes. Every other year or so, we experience the lightest of frosts, nothing killing, and our warmest temperatures (in the 80s and 90s) occur in late spring. And nothing more.
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 27, 2019
I have repeatedly tried informing the corresponding authorities, but have not seen any results so far. My first experience was an easy one: I found a Prickly Pear cactus growing on the roof, and I left it there. It now bears lots of fruit for Blue Mockingbirds and Curve-billed Thrashers. So how do I get my natives?
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 29, 2013
One needs to be focussed in order to extract all the useful bits of information from a fleeting glimpse, and one needs to combine all these pieces correctly to reach a substantiated interpretation. This small pine tree was very recently demolished by a brown bear. Well, first things first: the book’s title.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 21, 2016
Additional information: The Last Ocean. Now you know. I want to write a book – in English – about this “voyage of the Beagle”, about Antarctica and its wildlife in the light of climate changes, and us, the travellers on board the Ortelius and us, the mankind on board our only planet. Please vote for me HERE. Anonymous).
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 22, 2015
There’s a Sloth Bear in tall, dry grass, barely 50 metres from us, but all we can see is a dark, shape-shifting shadow that eventually becomes all but invisible. Our mobile phones had no signal inside the reserve, yet, the guides were communicating on some local network, informing each other where the tigers are. The Telia Lake.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 27, 2020
Suzie wrote about her experiences as a bird rehabber in Flyaway: How A Wild Bird Rehabber Sought Adventure and Found Her Wings (2009) and used those experiences as the source for her fictional children’s book, Hawk Hill (1996). How much did you draw on your own experiences as a wildlife rehabber to tell Luna’s story? .
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