10,000 Birds

JANUARY 6, 2014

It’s cold enough in Chicago—where our high temperature for the day was –2 degrees Farenheit—that the polar bear at the zoo spent the day inside. True, few hardy human souls are dedicated/crazy enough to go birding in these conditions (did I mention a windchill of –35?); Glad you asked. It’s cold enough to freeze vodka.

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Polar Bears Illinois Chicago Zoos 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 (!)

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Solomon Islands Guinea Mauritius Humane 278

10,000 Birds

JUNE 28, 2018

” In 1900, even before the last Passenger Pigeon’s death in the Cincinnati Zoo, Republican Congressman John F. Some people actually don’t consider human beings as animals. Some people think humans are superior to all other life forms. Why is this happening? People don’t respect wildlife.

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Hunting Hunters Gorillas Wolves 113

10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2020

Twenty-five-year-old Luna Burke is risking everything to smuggle a homicidal Bald Eagle out of her husband’s private zoo in Florida, reunite the bird with its mate, and get them both to an eagle sanctuary in Canada. I didn’t know the set up required for a black bear, or how high a Florida panther can actually jump.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Bald Eagle Eagles Wildlife 264

10,000 Birds

MARCH 23, 2018

But while that holiday has come and gone, 2018 remains the bicentennial year of the first export of Guinness to the United States, an anniversary the brewery is commemorating with a special release of Guinness Draught in cans decorated with its famous Guinness “Zoo” advertising art from the 1930s. They thought it would be vulgar.

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Campaign Sea Lions Lions Kangaroos 102

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. During 1990s, the South China Tiger became extinct in the wild (some still survive in zoos) and the number of extinct races reached four. The Telia Lake.

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