10,000 Birds
APRIL 2, 2024
The chapter titles of Feather Trails: A Journey of Discovery Among Endangered Birds represent both ends of the spectrum: “A World Full of Poisons,” “Malaria,” “Forest Intruders,” “Lead Shock,” “Shot.” Conservation. It’s not easy.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 31, 2012
The newest bird on the brink to capture her fertile imagination is the California Condor, on which she graciously shares her research and ruminations: Sometimes as a writer you recognize there’s been something overlooked in your midst—something quietly abiding. Condors, like all New World vultures, can disturb the human psyche.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 30, 2019
Author Sherrida Woodley thinks deeply about dearly departed birds. such as California Condors and Passenger Pigeons. That summer of 1938, when he was ten years old, Cade read of two brothers, Frank and John Craighead, who wrote of their experiences with falcons in National Geographic. I knew no falconers.
10,000 Birds
MAY 8, 2013
Birds are supposed to have feathers and birds without feathers look incomplete, like they left home with shaving cream on their ear and toothpaste spots on their shirt. The smellier the better, particularly as, unusually for birds, many species can boast a robust sense of smell. Here’s the kicker though.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 11, 2012
Alvaro Jaramillo, brilliant bird guide and proprietor of Alvaro’s Adventures , just tackled this thorny topic on the ABA Facebook page. Let’s call it the California Condor exception. They should be treated more like banded and released birds at a banding station, NOT LIKE INTRODUCTIONS. That is crazy to me.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 2, 2012
There are probably more identification guides about raptors than there are for any other bird group. This is a second edition that has been rewritten, updated, and re-invented, and it will doubtlessly become the hawk identification bible of our birding era. Yes, I saw the bird and it was incredible.)
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 22, 2013
Hello my birding sons and daughters. Not since the advent of the field guide (thanks Roger) have we seen such rapid change in the world of birding. 1) Rare bird reporting has come a long way. I saw the bird the next day, where it was reported to other birders via text messages, cellular phone calls, and more listserv messages.
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