10,000 Birds
AUGUST 10, 2016
As a boy growing up, I scoured every bird book I could get my hands on. I guess it is that gruesome boyhood interest in any bird that would use thorns and barbwire to impale its prey on. These fiercely territorial birds. Here is a pair birds that I visit quite often, in an arroyo near La Ventana, Mexico.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 14, 2022
Of course, a land of beefeaters needs butchers. Given its veneration of Chianina beef, it’s hardly surprising that Tuscany has brought forth the world’s first celebrity butcher. An avian butcher at work: Red-backed Shrike ( Lanius collurio ) depicted by Dutch bird illustrator J.G. Good birding and happy drinking!
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 3, 2022
If you think it is rather pretentious to start a birding blog post with a Kafka story, I fully agree with you. Anyway, the story is not quite how I remembered it, to be honest, but fitting enough to describe the almost claustrophobic birding experience in ever-shrinking Nanhui. I just want to point out it could be much worse.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 10, 2015
Another product has been invented that could cut down on the number of wild birds killed by domestic cats. The idea is that brilliant colors will warn birds that something is coming, and they’ll fly away. “The The Birdsbesafe® collar is highly effective at reducing bird deaths,” she writes. Sometimes two or three a day!”.
10,000 Birds
MAY 22, 2015
This is what we need for birds, whose rights as government-protected species are violated every day by free-roaming cats. What birds need is their own SWAT team. Outdoor/feral cat people are bullies who prey on people unable to fight back, just as their cats do with birds. You call the SWAT team. It’s time for this to end.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 18, 2017
But we pressed on, me with the hope of cool birds, Desi with the hope of crocodiles, and Daisy because she just likes being on boats. It is a common bird itself but I had never managed to see one so well even though I butchered the photographic opportunity. ” I yelled, and the guide sped upriver after the bird.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 14, 2015
But before we could enjoy the birds there we had to get out to the islands, and our hosts at The Lodge at Pico Bonito had us in more than capable hands with our guide, Olbin Bejarano. Well, it’s a life bird if you consider Salvin’s Emerald a separate species. Of course we had a lot more to do other than look at birds.
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