10,000 Birds

MARCH 29, 2019

After three visits to southern Italy, followed by a lone excursion to Belgium, we’ll head back south to end our month-long “Grand Tour” of falconry-themed wine and ales in Portugal.

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2016 Portugal Falcons Japan 127

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2020

From the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Thanks to the miracle of fermentation, these flavors can be preserved in beer all year round, as is the custom in Belgium. The Robin, No. 3 , collector card from the Bird Cards series (D16), issued by the White Baking Company, St. Louis, Missouri (early 20th century).

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Farming New York St. Louis Belgium 151

10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2020

Their use in ancient China is attested in the Huainanzi , a collection of essays compiled before 139 BCE. Weathervanes are an ancient invention, believed to have been developed independently by both the Chinese and the Greeks around the 2 nd century BCE.

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New York Farming Belgium Fowl 153

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2021

There is a photo of him caring for a White-chinned Sapphire in the book, the only human pictured in Dunn’s 16-page collection of hummingbird photographs, and it is inspiring. A good part of The Glitter in the Green is devoted to the history of how hummingbirds have been treated and depicted and valued or not valued by human beings.

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Costa Rica Brazil Ecuador Bolivia 264

10,000 Birds

JULY 8, 2022

When I got this bottle of American Sour Red from the Collective Brewing Project of Fort Worth, Texas as a gift a few months back, I knew the only time I’d be able to get away with reviewing a beer with such brash, jingoistic imagery was around the American Independence Day holiday on July 4 th. Maybe they were serious after all.

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Collecting Belgium Bald Eagle Texas 147