10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2014

Check out my mom’s blog post where she has a nice shot of my father and I looking at the wood-warblers. You’ll remember Javi from whale-watching. Fortunately the birds mostly came to me and I just had to keep my binoculars and camera handy. This Red-eyed Vireo had just swallowed a very large bug.

New York 174

New York Cooking Chipmunks Owls 174

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 7, 2013

Whale-watching! This may come as somewhat of a surprise to those who don’t know about it but the waters just off of Queens can apparently be pretty good for whales at the right time of year. As we headed east we stayed within several hundred yards of shore which seemed odd for a boat looking for whales. More whales!

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New York City New York Whales Whaling 161

Animal Person

APRIL 14, 2009

According to Reuters: Japan, which considers whaling to be a cherished cultural tradition, killed 679 minke whales despite plans to catch around 850. It caught just one fin whale compared with a target of 50 in the hunt that began in November. says a commenter on the journalist's blog). That's one result.

Animal Liberation Front 100

Animal Liberation Front UCLA Animal Liberation Primates 100

Animal Ethics

JANUARY 12, 2008

Hey there, Just discovered your nice blog on animals and ethics. I've touched on relevant issues off and on, but most specifically in a 2004 piece on arguments for and against whale hunts. I've linked back to that story in my latest post on Japan v Greenpeace saga on my Dot Earth blog.

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Animal Ethics 2004 New York Times Japan 40

10,000 Birds

JUNE 29, 2013

After taking an ornithology course last year, he was hooked and spends most of his free time birding or reading birding blogs. The group we were with mentioned that they had seen Minke Whales just off the coast of the fjords the day before, but we missed out on our drive back south. Of course, birding was on the itinerary!

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Iceland Puffins Europe Birds 187

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2017

Corey was pleased with the result of the whale-watching trip he took in Queens despite the fact that no one on the boat saw a single marine mammal. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. I’m enjoying all the grungy adolescent birds gracelessly trotting about. How about you?

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2017 North America Whales Whaling 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

A lot of folks, including this very blog, are using this as an occasion to memorialize not just the Passenger Pigeon but the extinct birds of the Holocene as a group. So as some folks may have noticed, it seems that the centenniel of the Passenger Pigeon’s extinction is garnering a bit of press. Good, I say. Good times, I tell you what.

California Condor 197

California Condor United States Guam Whales 197

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 29, 2011

Having flown to Washington State on a family vacation the first obstacle was easily out of the way, which you knew already if you ever read this blog. There was no pretending this was a whale-watching trip, a ruse that is growing stale anyway.

Washington 170

Washington Protection Puffins Rhinoceros 170

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2011

Dale studied scarlet macaws, and worked in their conservation, for three years in southern Costa Rica, followed by a year in the Caribbean working on Whale Sharks. He also blogs for birdingblogs.com 19 Responses to “Polygynandry and the Alpine Accentor&# Corey Mar 15th, 2011 at 1:49 pm Nobody tell Daisy, OK? You disgust me.

2011 209

2011 Breeders Breeding Deer 209

10,000 Birds

JUNE 22, 2011

A great place to watch whales and pelagic seabirds. As such I am unsure who to credit for most of them, although a few were certainly taken by Annie Schmidt, who has a great photo blog of this season on the Farallones going right now which is definitely worth a look. And finally, a view from that step. Note about images.

Breeding 181

Breeding Stray Seals Whales 181

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

In contemplating a title for this blog post, I vacillated between historical and geological references. Chacachacare was also the site of a US Army base, a leper colony, and before that, a whaling station. Then it hit me that the name of the island itself is rather exotic sounding.

Trinidad 175

Trinidad Netherlands Columbus Whales 175

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2011

Dale studied scarlet macaws, and worked in their conservation, for three years in southern Costa Rica, followed by a year in the Caribbean working on Whale Sharks. While studying, he also worked on various conservation/research projects (parrots, wagtails, vultures, and anything else that flew) and ringed thousands of birds.

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Cats 2011 Costa Rica Deer 148