Critter News
JULY 10, 2009
The Franklin Park Zoo, a Boston institution that has drawn generations of city and suburban families, might be forced to close its doors and possibly euthanize some of its animals as a result of the deep budget cuts imposed by Governor Deval Patrick, zoo officials said Friday. That they care for the species and animals?
10,000 Birds
MARCH 12, 2021
I don’t know whether head brewer Chris Schell – a Delmar native with a decade of craft brewing experience – is a birder or not, but each beer is adorned with trippy, vaguely sci-fi depictions of birds by Boston artist Ian Tartasky , some of which seem to be identifiable to species.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 24, 2016
Blackbirds, as a family, often have those simple descriptive names that are easy to mock ( Yellow-rumped Warbler , ugh) until a non-birder comes describing such a species to you and asking for an ID. Thomas Mayo Brewer was younger than Audubon but less iternant, spending all his life in Boston.
10,000 Birds
MAY 17, 2020
The “ Explores” are only part of the book, and there is much else of value in it, even for the reader who cannot quit his job, sell all his worldly possessions, leave his home and family, and take to the byroads armed only with a parabolic microphone. Boston, New York. It’s not a field guide, as such. By Donald Kroodsma.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 24, 2019
The shearwater’s common name is “Cory’s” because Cory was the first to realize that it was a species in its own right and publish. Sadly, I haven’t been able to come up with a better name for the magnificent creature currently named after a Boston Brahmin who liked to shoot things. Definitely not!
10,000 Birds
APRIL 18, 2011
Spotting 57 species of birds in the couple of hours we put in to seeking out birds was never so ho-hum in my life. One final stop at a popular park in Queens netted us another nesting species that we only found because they can’t fly yet, Great Horned Owlets. So-so looks at a brown swallow. How exciting.
Animal Ethics
DECEMBER 31, 2011
He says he hunts out of a need to take responsibility for his family, who evidently live where the supermarkets offer no meat. 26, 2011 To the Editor: Seamus McGraw mounts all the standard defenses: I am feeding my family; there are too many deer; I kill as mercifully as possible. BRINNING Boston, Dec. MARIE BROWN Baldwin, N.Y.,
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