10,000 Birds
MARCH 31, 2012
The newest bird on the brink to capture her fertile imagination is the California Condor, on which she graciously shares her research and ruminations: Sometimes as a writer you recognize there’s been something overlooked in your midst—something quietly abiding. My first view of them was at a distance.
10,000 Birds
JULY 20, 2011
With an 8 to 9 1/2 foot wingspan and weighing in at up to 30 pounds, it rivals the California Condor for size and weight. They begin feeding by dipping that huge bill into the water and scooping prey into their pouch, water flowing out of the pouch as they raise it back up to horizontal.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 30, 2019
such as California Condors and Passenger Pigeons. Raised in and around the West Texas steppe country where temperatures reached 100 degrees with regularity, he began life as the Dust Bowl and Great Depression converged. Author Sherrida Woodley thinks deeply about dearly departed birds. He came for the hawks.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 1, 2021
If you remember that the first edition of Sibley was published with “National Audubon Society” on the cover, raise your hand. There are several species, such as California Condor, for which new material had to be written (California Condor is called “nearly extinct” in the older title and not included).
10,000 Birds
JULY 20, 2018
Following passage of the United States Endangered Species Preservation Act of 1966, the California Condor ( Gymnogyps californianus ) was among the first 75 species listed for protection, the so-called “Class of 1967”. Reintroduction efforts expanded to Arizona in 1996, and later, to the Baja California peninsula in Mexico.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 2, 2012
The new edition adds 11 species, birds such as Zone-tailed Hawk, Short-tailed Hawk, and California Condor that are only seen in specific areas of North America. The original Hawks in Flight treated 23 raptors, the major hawks that migrate through North America. It is a good visual summary to the ½-paged detailed discussion.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 12, 2014
And oh crap, you guys, we really have to do something about the California Condor situation right now, but what? In order to raise our awareness, to remind us of what we have lost, and to inspire us to fight for Every. And no one had seen the Eskimo Curlew around in a while. Or Bachman’s Warbler. Will it work?
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