10,000 Birds
JUNE 13, 2021
The bird is just chilling out, waiting for the urge to fly. The bird below is also waiting, but not to fly. He is simply waiting for someone to move him from the filthy plastic bucket where he is tethered next to a gas pump. One might assume this is a falconry bird, but it’s not.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 11, 2013
Here I was, sitting patiently in a blind, watching a tethered European Starling on a string. To understand, and thus to protect. It was the only bird I could see through the narrow slit in the blind, and so, as a bird-watcher, I watched it. Sara, one of the researchers, explained that it was a newish bird.
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