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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 2, 2019
Although it was nothing like going from New York to California or even Buffalo, New York to North Carolina, a change of location, however slight, can bring new birds especially in Costa Rica. Right at home. In typical blackbird fashion, this common garden bird gave occasional, loud, ringing calls. These were. Great Kiskadee.
10,000 Birds
MAY 24, 2018
What was the weirdest place you ever birded? The disappearance of vultures has allowed other species such as rat and [stray] dog populations to grow. A vulture’s metabolism is a true “dead-end” for pathogens, but dogs and rats become carriers of the pathogens. Some smelly sewage ponds? Oh, don’t bother responding.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 10, 2014
Since I have started to bird by kayak, it took me a lot of time to realise that paddling is not the synonym for birding and that I can bird without a paddle, although I cannot paddle without a pair of binoculars. Hence, I had the be equally grumpy to explain to them that I had an equal right to be there (equal right?
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 15, 2013
In each instance they start with a striking anecdote — my particular favorite took place on the University of Montana campus, where in 1964 an American Crow learned to call and taunt stray dogs into causing perhaps the most adorable college riots of the decade.
10,000 Birds
MAY 14, 2015
Loess bluff with numerous bee-eaters and one Northern Wheatear and, cut into a low grassy ridge, the set of tracks veers right. Further on a wire sits a somewhat large-headed small-crow like bird. I am coming closer – the bird is quite tolerant – and taking a few photos. Their scientific name is not turtur for nothing.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 13, 2018
E.g. I remember trying to enter my local scrubland once, just across the car park behind the last apartment building and there, awaiting me, was a territorial pack of stray dogs barking at an intruder – me. Not sure that I impressed them, I chose to bluff them and looked left and right for a suitable tree branch to pick.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 5, 2013
As the story goes, way back in the late 19th Century and organization called the American Acclimitazation Society was working hard to introduce every one of the 600 species of birds mentioned in Shakespeare’s plays to North America. Plus, they’re sort of ugly.
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