10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 4, 2022
Although Henslow’s had been reliably found in nearby Sharon Springs for many years, the last documented sighting was in 2008, and the sighting startled longtime birders, waking them up to the fact that breeding sites in the state were rapidly being lost. Rogers can. These are not all the essays–there are 22!
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 1, 2011
Look at the facts, lay your emotions aside and listen to reason—exactly the same reasoning that’s been so persuasive in convincing me that hunting cranes is the right thing to do. In my home state, Bald Eagles are breeding in 35 Ohio counties. I get it now, I really do. I think it’s time to hunt Sandhill Cranes. young per year.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 7, 2020
The eggs are Peregrine Falcon eggs, stolen from aeries in Wales, though Lendrum keeps insisting they’re duck eggs. a close childhood friend of Lendrum’s, Howard Waller, breeds falcons for Sheikh Butti bin Maktoum, a member of the Dubai royal family. Back to Lendrum–McWilliam interviews him.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 9, 2011
Let us for once judge a book by its cover, and take a thorough look at a Black-headed Gull in breeding plumage. In the finest tradition of Romanticism, gulls dwell in the mystic world of dark and morbid imagery and emotions, which is expressed in often eroticized ways of aesthetic self-dramatization*. Get yours today!
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 6, 2016
There are 160 to 200 species of marine birds here, depending on your definition of “marine bird” (Fox defines it as “species traditionally considered coastal,” including birds like Sandhill Cranes with the more traditional tubenoses, gulls, and ducks). Black-footed Albatross, image courtesy of Jared Towers.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 8, 2017
Lesser Spotted Eagles breed regularly with around 100 pairs in Germany, but unless you know where the territories are you are unlikely to see them. Hybrid dabbling duck , Rieselfelder Münster, Germany. Also high on my list of favourite birds for 2016 is a hybrid dabbling duck whose parentage I have yet to find out.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 15, 2012
Felonious Jive really likes a ravishing returning rarity – a Falcated Duck. Falcated Duck by Felonious Jive Duncan Wright had some pretty good birds to choose from for his Best Bird of the Year. Secretive, silent and undetectable outside of its breeding season, found only in the U.S. Sound good?
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