10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2016

It’s still hard for me to wrap my head around this trip, my first on a brand new continent. It’s a fun game for New World birders to find equivalents to many of the Old World bird families that we are unfamiliar with, but there is no equivalent to turacos. They bounce around limbs like jays and scurry like squirrels.

Uganda 164

Uganda Africa Squirrels Tanzania 164

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2015

And squirrels. Aggravatingly, many squirrels. How to choose bird feeders; how to make nutritious bird food; how to create a backyard environment that will attract birds; how to survey your feeder birds for citizen science projects; how to prevent squirrels from gobbling up all your black oil sunflower seed (sorry, none of that works).

America 234

America Industry Squirrels Birds 234

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2015

There’s a Three-striped Palm Squirrel by the side of the track, while Jungle Bush Quails are running across it in front of our Maruti Gypsy, almost the official safari vehicle of India. Trying not to inhale so much of the dust cloud that envelops us, I am sporting a bandana tied bank-robber style. Very dusty Swarovski CLs.

Tigers 248

Tigers India Killing 2012 248