10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 19, 2014
Which also means that Carrie, who took the sausagefest (her words, not mine) picture of Greater Sage Grouse above, would have another chance to capture some hot bird-on-bird action. The United Nations released its new list of protected species as well, adding the Great Bustard along with the Polar Bear and other species.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 12, 2024
Memorable encounters with Mammals: Part I Most birdwatchers enjoy seeing mammals, but the trouble with mammals is that they tend to be much more challenging to see than birds. I remember the guide on my first Kenyan birding safari remarking that “birding groups always see far more mammals than those who come just to see animals.
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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 12, 2012
Do you think that any event in our lifetimes will ever focus so much positive attention and excitement on nature or birding? I found myself on the shore of Lake Ontario on the most bitter day of this mild winter to observe over 1,700 maniacs take a Polar Bear Plunge. Not likely, right?
10,000 Birds
JULY 27, 2014
The tracks of two young Polar Bear skirt a crack in the sea ice in Admiralty Inlet. Wildlife concentrates at the Floe Edge, and although we just missed Narwhal as pack ice moved in just after we arrived, the place was littered with Polar Bear. Birds, though, were there by the thousands. Standing on the ocean.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 6, 2014
It’s cold enough in Chicago—where our high temperature for the day was –2 degrees Farenheit—that the polar bear at the zoo spent the day inside. Is this “polar plunge” that’s gripping much of the U.S. Midwest (and, soon, the East) bad for birds? So I’m grateful that birding has steeled me.
4 The Love Of Animals
APRIL 16, 2009
Inevitably, it’s a situation where you were there, and for me, it’s the swimming male polar bear. I also loved the birds of paradise. When you see a dying male polar bear and you’ve been with that animal for a long time, it is hard. It’s where we filmed all the polar bear material.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 26, 2011
I thought I’d take you along on an early spring quick birding trip in the high Arctic. Having already blown a deadline, and disappointed in the half baked post I had prepared, I decided to chuck it all and go look for some birds this evening. I scanned the frozen ocean, after all this is Polar Bear country.
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