10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

I first encountered Molly Hashimoto’s bird art in California. The use of different media to emphasize dramatically different visions of the same bird is a continuing theme, demonstrated particularly well in three depictions of a Sandhill Crane in block print, watercolor, and egg tempura.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

As we know from the French documentary La Marche de l’Empereur ( March of the Penguins) , the females skedaddle from the breeding colony once she produces an egg, leaving the egg to be incubated by the males, who fast for 120 days while keeping the egg in a flap of their feet. (I And that may be o.k. 2023, 256 pp.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 16, 2009

The overwhelming passage in November of Proposition 2 in California, which banned tight confinement of many of the animals raised for food, is a fine example of the power of publicity to educate people about the atrocities we commit to those animals who have no voice of their own. Every meal, for me, is a celebration of life.

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New York Times New York Proposition 2 Free Range 40

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2018

He pointed out that Illinois had been sadly neglected up to this point, so Redgannet made a special visit to Chicago to redress this oversight. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. California Quail – Callipepla californica. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. California Gull – Larus californicus. 13 Jan 2018.

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