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. And of eggs and nests and birds on nests. Cedar Waxwings exchange berries, carry nesting material, eggs. Some people love books like that.

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*.

2011 158

2011 Birds Deer Europe 158

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2012

Red Junglefowl by Mike Bergin Clare Kines chose an egg as his Best Bird of the Year. an unhatched Red-throated Loon by Clare Kines Like Duncan, Larry Jordan had a difficult time picking his Best Bird of the Year but he eventually chose a woodpecker. And, no, I am not kidding. What is it that makes a bird the best or the year?

2012 143

2012 Birds Guatemala Florida 143