10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2014

It’s not like I had forgotten lists created with friends of ‘songs with birds in the lyrics’, my personal favorites being Sondheim’s Green Finch and Linnet Bird and the Beatles’ Blackbird. We worship birds, we hunt birds, we protect birds, and, yes, we eat birds. As they say, the relationship is complicated.

Birds 205

Birds Egypt Family Eagles 205

10,000 Birds

APRIL 26, 2013

Still, the tip was all I needed to jump online and do some quick research (and all praises to the internet for making such things possible!) Lest you think that modern technology robbed all the challenge from my hunt, though, I would point out that there were a couple of confounding factors.

Sparrows 164

Sparrows St. Louis Kansas City Kansas 164

10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2023

To be honest, both the robin and the flycatchers shown above remind me of the easter eggs I hunted for as a child – the same strong colors in front of a green background, same time of the year (feel free to insert your own Proust Madeleine reference here) … Bluethroats apparently are good at imitating other birds.

Monkeys 147

Monkeys Birds South Korea Owls 147