10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2022

I’m not quite sure where I was at the time, probably working, and it was six more years till I got my state Henslow’s Sparrow at Shawangunk NWR (a shorter drive and a more cooperative bird). She frames her story with first a Doonesbury comic strip (remember Dick Davenport, the bird watcher?)

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Birds Sparrows Connecticut New York 261

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2011

Look at the facts, lay your emotions aside and listen to reason—exactly the same reasoning that’s been so persuasive in convincing me that hunting cranes is the right thing to do. So there will be an ample supply of young birds coming up for harvest. The Bald Eagle has the potential to be the Holy Grail of game birds.

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Bald Eagle Eagles Hunting Kentucky 250

10,000 Birds

MAY 20, 2016

It was also in some ways an emotional quest for Audubon, who was freshly driven to complete his great work in the face of his first intimations, not only of his own mortality, but also of the idea that his beloved adopted continent was not inexhaustible and that its natural riches could be destroyed by constant exploitation.

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Emotional Fox Sparrows Washington 131

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2024

Of course, excellent opportunity to go birding with my friends Brad and Laura. My colleague Doug wrote me an email describing the whereabouts of these “rosy finches” and my wife had to manage my excitement with horse tranquilizer… What a fantastic little birds. It is mid-March and I am back in Colorado for meetings.

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Denver Colorado Ducks Mules 158

10,000 Birds

MARCH 30, 2024

My previous post on birding here has received some criticism – apparently I was too harsh on the place. True to my own recipe I would arrive a day or two early to go birding. I’d go with Mexican birding buddy Mau, guided by Kingfisher Birding who also provided the bird pictures. The birds warmed us too.

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Ducks Emotional Cattle Owls 149

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Jeff Gordon is now just over one year into his reign as the President of the American Birding Association. We here at 10,000 Birds thought the first anniversary of his ascension to the throne would be a good time to ask him some questions about etiquette, the state of the ABA, and a variety of other topics. Your eminence? Grand Poobah?

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Delaware Colorado 2012 Advocacy 234

4 The Love Of Animals

APRIL 16, 2009

We just pulled back, and we pulled back, and we pulled back, and ended with this tiny, tiny dot in the middle of the wide expanse of the Artic Ocean, and it was a very emotional moment for me. I also loved the birds of paradise. Linfield: Yes, and I think, as Alastair says, you were always influenced by the things that you film.

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Polar Bears Bears Walruses Norway 100