10,000 Birds

JUNE 30, 2013

Duck hunting is big business in the United States. Just ask whoever greenlit the A&E reality show Duck Dynasty , about a family that sells duck calls.) Birds Conservation duck stamp' A mockup of what a Wildlife Conservation Stamp might look like. Where’s our duck stamp?

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Wildlife Jordan Ducks United States 193

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 10, 2012

I realize that listing is a reviled in birding culture as it is celebrated, and more listing even more so, but hear me out here. I mean to make the argument that county listing is birding at its most pure, the ultimate combination of the two warring angels that sit upon each one of our shoulders. A fine bird for the county.

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McDonalds South Carolina North Carolina Jordan 173

10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2013

There are few birds in the sprawl of suburbia or the sylvan ideal of semi-rural existence as appreciated as wrens. The name wren first entered language to refer to that bouncy bird we now call the Eurasian Wren in the 8th Century as the Old English wraenna. like a snake through grass. Carolina Wren, photo by Nate Swick.

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Jordan Birds North America Tenant 222