10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 3, 2024
My recent posts may have given the impression that business birding is always exotic , on remote islands or with lots of birds. However, any hour spent birding is an hour spent well! So, how does one combine birding with business? Birding on a refinery or birding in a mega-city. Preparation is key.
Critter News
SEPTEMBER 6, 2009
Now France can add another to its long list of gastronomic sins.eating ortolan, an endangered songbird. In a co-ordinated protest, members of the League for the Protection of Birds (LPO) destroyed hundreds of traps and set free the birds inside. Tags: poaching france endangered species. From the Guardian.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 12, 2018
I’ve been dragging my feet on wine reviews here at Booze and Birds for quite some time. Not that I haven’t been searching: by now I have a good backlog of bird-bedecked bottles that I’ve picked up over the last few months, just waiting for the right moment to uncork. This is a bird deserving respect.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 31, 2018
The only way these birds could be less fun is if there were an Intermediate Scaup. And even if such a bird existed and were endangered no one would want to see it. Here on 10,000 Birds, where we love all birds, the paucity of posts about scaup stands out. They are unattractive, ubiquitous, and uninteresting. Scaup suck.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 27, 2019
For a third year in a row, Birds and Booze has dipped on a bird-themed Champagne to recommend for New Year’s Eve. There just doesn’t seem to be much – if anything – out there, a scarcity addressed in last year’s Birds and Booze post for the New Year. Well, we’ve done it again. This may be your Anser.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 6, 2018
He made a whirlwind tour of some of the best birding areas in the country, from the Karajukica Bunari peat bog in the extreme southwest (by the border with Montenegro) all the way to the Slano Kopovo Crane Sanctuary in the northeast. He enjoys combining his passion for birds with computer science background to model nocturnal bird migration.
10,000 Birds
JULY 1, 2013
As it turns out we can add their birds to that list. When I photographed a pair a couple of years ago that were sporting radio tags , I assumed (and it may be the case) that they were two birds of twenty tagged that year in Virginia. I returned the next day and found that the birds were still there.
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