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
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.
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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. Neighbor A’s private property and peace of mind are both suffering because of the cats, which are killing government-protected species. You call the SWAT team.
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
The avifauna is distinctly Caribbean as well, with some Caribbean species found only on the islands and nowhere else in Honduras. 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. Taxonomy is fun!
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 14, 2011
Feeding birds is generally regarded as a harmless past-time, a wholesome way for people to share nature and enjoy wildlife with the family. However, more and more news stories are popping up this year of communities cracking down on bird feeding. How do you know when you are a little too involved with feeding birds?
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 7, 2017
Greg Lawrence is a long-time friend of 10,000 Birds and a birding machine in the Rochester, New York, area. When he reached out to ask if he could contribute a piece to 10,000 Birds about about the ethics around the current Snowy Owl irruption in the central and eastern United States we were all for it! Species have value.
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