10,000 Birds
AUGUST 1, 2020
As the tide of climate disaster keeps rising, protests continue, and economies fall into recession, we move through time and space in a limbo of anxiety and uncertainty. I draw quiet strength and hope from birds. It’s all good in this birding hood, the more you look and listen, the more you find.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 3, 2021
Reva is also a part of the local Important Bird and Biodiversity Area “Confluence of the Sava and the Danube Rivers”. Then a famous local actress, Svetlana Bojkovic, visited the protesters when a loaded lorry arrived, so she took part in stopping it. The post The Reva Situation appeared first on 10,000 Birds.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 17, 2021
My readers are already familiar with Beljarica Backwaters, as described in half a dozen posts here at 10,000 Birds. It all started well three decades ago, when I intensively birded the Danube Backwaters by kayak. The post Beljarica Backwaters: Some good news announced (but not yet official) appeared first on 10,000 Birds.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 2, 2024
However – and I am not saying this out of misplaced national pride – there is one bird in the Netherlands that proves Jefferson wrong and Buffon right: the White-tailed Eagle (or Sea Eagle ). The animals themselves identified as “civilised” and started a hunger strike in protest. It’s the only Dutch eagle. It was awful.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 22, 2018
In the e-era now, print magazines are going the way of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker. This year, the one now coming to a close, has been “The Year of the Bird,” as declared by National Geographic (as well as the National Audubon Society, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and BirdLife International). A: nothing.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 18, 2018
My first ‘protest’ memory involved putting pencil to notebook paper and writing the President about the harmful effects of DDT. When news later reached our little town (likely through a newspaper) that the bird-killing chemical was to be banned, my environmental activism was born. But birds can fly so they’ll be fine, right?
10,000 Birds
APRIL 13, 2015
Ethiopia, a landlocked country situated in the Horn of Africa, has firmly established itself as one of Africa’s top birding destinations. Its great diversity of habitats hosts an incredible bird count of over 900 species, including Africa’s 2nd highest list of endemics and near-endemics (after South Africa).
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