10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 23, 2020
With things being what they are in 2020, there’s been no shortage of pundits on cable news and social media, there to proffer opinions on politics, the pandemic, and other pressing topics of our age on the 24-hour news cycle. The Pundit is a 2016 Syrah from Tenet Wines , a collaborative brand between Ste.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 21, 2017
Hopes for a brand new list from a whole new state were dampened by the outlook, but the dodgy digit of Disruption (from fickle Fate’s other hand) decreed that the trip would have to be extended. Nate made landfall to the east and as morning came, one would be hard pressed to say that there had been a storm.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 1, 2021
Pough “with illustrations in color of every species” by Don Eckelberry, Doubleday, 1946. The guides bore the Audubon Society name, were published by Knopf and distributed by Random House, but they were actually conceived and produced by an outfit called Chanticleer Press and they became a publishing sensation.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 5, 2013
My friend Ian had purchased Richard ffrench’s classic A Guide to the Birds of Trinidad & Tobago just before we left, the third edition, hot off the presses. For some reason, Yale University Press discontinued its arrangement with Helms, so there is no United States edition. The bird guide question was a conundrum.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 20, 2011
By October we both had brand spankin’ new Nikon D90s. I hoped, I judged, I reacted, and I pressed the shutter release button down as hard as I could. I now have 10 photos in my Crappy Bird Pics gallery of 9 different species. A Forster’s Tern flew by, Anita made the camera go “click&# and she was hooked. And then a macro.
10,000 Birds
MAY 5, 2022
When you spot a brand new bird identification guide, especially for your home region – in this case, Europe – reaching for it comes naturally. pounds) heavy Colombia field guide with its 1900+ species. That second figure, 540, actually indicates the more realistic number of regular species that one can expect.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 4, 2019
Their populations, plus those of other species that ‘wore’ the coveted long, colorful feathers used for women’s fashionable hats, were being dangerously depleted by hunters intent on feeding the millinery industry. Preferably, they should be wearing colors of purple, white, and gold, the branded hues of their movement.
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