10,000 Birds
MAY 2, 2023
It could easily be mistaken for a book about aviation or space navigation or even a flight simulator game if you don’t read the long, adjective-filled subtitle: How a Passionate and Quirky Group of Pioneering Scientists Solved the Mystery of Bird Migration. Flight Paths is a splendid but risky title for a book about bird migration.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 26, 2023
Such an embarrassingly populist title of a blog post should obviously be followed by some dry facts. Fear not, science has an answer: about 1.16 Here goes: Paradise Flycatchers are a genus in the broader (and rather large) family of Monarchidae.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 17, 2023
Why tediously write blog posts when ChatGPT can do it for me? So, I asked ChatGPT: “Please write a 500-word blog post about birding in Shanghai in the style of Kai Pflug for the website 10,000 birds” This is the result: Greetings, fellow birding enthusiasts! Green Spaces? What Green Spaces? You want green spaces?
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 22, 2022
Ndumo Game Reserve lies in the Easternmost part of South Africa, close to the border of Mozambique and Eswatini. And of course, what you see in the background of these two photos is a Bronze Mannikin , giving me what is perhaps one of the best links in the personal history of my bird blog writing (low standards, admittedly).
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
Another blog has some very interesting remarks about the species, which I will just recite directly as they are well-phrased: “The Greater Racket-Tailed Drongo, a conspicuous black bird with a deeply forked tail, often forages in flocks comprised of up to a dozen different species of birds. It is also classified as Near Threatened.
10,000 Birds
JULY 9, 2014
I’m not going to rehash that war here, seeing as how it is a bird blog and not one about foreign policy, but it is perhaps appropriate to note the maelstrom of violence that has been pretty much ongoing since the neocons went in to make everything better. I’m not a fan of some of the cuts to science, but National came in in 2008.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 12, 2019
The internet has been game-changing for birding, just as it has been disruptive in other fields. My impression is that most young birders are eBirders, a trend that will surely continue due to its convenience, accessibility, and contribution to science. In that world, a mimeographed newsletter was a giant leap forward.
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