10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2015

Second, reading about birds courting and parenting brings out the tendency to identify, which leads directly to anthropomorphism, the tendency to assign birds human emotions and thoughts. Which is not to say that it doesn’t contain striking images of birds parenting the most adorable songbirds, owls, and heron nestlings imaginable.

Eggs 263

Eggs Family 2006 New York 263

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*. Dan: thanks so much!!

2011 167

2011 Birds Deer Europe 167

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2012

Red Junglefowl by Mike Bergin Clare Kines chose an egg as his Best Bird of the Year. Secretive, silent and undetectable outside of its breeding season, found only in the U.S. However, I am in a fierce and highly emotional year list competition with Corey, and it looks like I will lose against him. And, no, I am not kidding.

2012 155

2012 Birds Guatemala Florida 155