10,000 Birds
APRIL 7, 2020
It didn’t occur to me till I started reading The Falcon Thief: A True Tale of Adventure, Treachery, and the Hunt for the Perfect Bird that there was also a possible threat to the eagle herself: poachers, who steal raptor eggs and chicks. McWilliam realizes he’s dealing someone special, a career falcon egg-thief.
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. Peregrine Falcon nests. Some people love books like that. Think of birds too much as humans and you lose the specialness that makes them birds.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 14, 2016
Go to political rallies to get your emotions manipulated by potent, practiced con-artists? How can we say that magic is a farce when the May blossoms are backdropping bright, breeding plumaged Canadas , Magnolias , Chestnut-sideds , chocolate Bay-breasteds , and Rose-breasted Grosbeaks ? No, everyone should be out birding.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 31, 2012
The World Center for Birds of Prey ( The Peregrine Fund ) in Boise, Idaho, most famous for its Peregrine Falcons , also has a vital population of California condors. I sensed his ability to hold a lot of information in his head while sorting through his emotions about what’s happening.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 28, 2019
“So, for a relatively small contribution to habitat preservation, or captive breeding programs, or some minor climate change mitigation…” here a small covey of oil executives rustled and began to puff up, “really quite small, by your standards, you too could have a longspur. . “That’s Jeff for you.”
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 30, 2021
… – part 2 – Once I finish this writing, with a strange mix of emotions I will put the Lynx field guide Birds of Colombia to the bookshelf for the first time, more than half a year after I received it. We found Black-collared Swallows breeding in cracks among the lower riverside rocks. Black-collared Swallow by Tyler Ficker.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 6, 2016
The species was seemingly killed off by feather hunters, but then, after years, reappeared at the site of one of the deserted breeding colonies, Torishima Island in Japan. She is one of the best nature writers I’ve encountered in recent years, able to paint experiences with emotional immediacy.
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