10,000 Birds

JULY 16, 2014

When I was a small kid I lived in Southern California, and my parents used to take me to Disneyland, the Happiest Place on Earth(TM). The lodge is unusual in having a raised walkway behind the lodge, allowing those of us keen to bird or watch wildlife when most normal people are resting in the middle of the day. A side tributary.

Rhinoceros 168

Rhinoceros Apes Elephants Monkeys 168

10,000 Birds

JUNE 15, 2011

But the sleekest of the sulids may be found in the family Sulidae. Blue-footed Booby by Toni Darton One may find Blue-footed Boobies at various locations along the eastern Pacific Coast from California south to Peru. Anyone who has observed gannets or boobies in action can attest to how impressive their acrobatics can be.

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Ecuador Peru Hunters Pelicans 182

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

“My biggest regret in life was raising my binoculars to observe this monstrosity of a bird” – Ethel M. If you misidentify something, you bring great shame and dishonor to both you and your family. Long-tailed Jaeger. Pink-footed Shearwater. One typically does not know a lot of people on any given trip. I assure you.

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Puffins Albatross Penguins Experience 247

Animal Ethics

JULY 21, 2010

The California law adds an arbitrary and unscientific requirement that chickens be prohibited from touching one another or the side of any enclosure. The new law will cost American family farmers, and ultimately California consumers, hundreds of millions of dollars. Gene Gregory President, United Egg Producers Alpharetta, Ga.,

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New York Times New York Factory Farm Factory Farming 40

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Still, the mischievous crow can cause just as much trouble in the vineyard even before the roots are in the ground, as original planters of Dancing Crow Vineyards of California’s Lake County wine region, north of the Napa Valley. Good birding and happy drinking! Dancing Crow Vineyards Zinfandel (2017). Three out of five stars (Good).

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2017 Nevada California Italy 158

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2020

They portray the nesting cycles of Mallard, Red-tailed Hawk, and American Robin, illustrating the various ways in which birds create families. Do they have families too and do they take care of them? Some of the chapters focus on a specific bird, most are about bird families like hawks, tanagers, wrens, etc.,

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2020 Birds Groups North America 264

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2018

The beginning of each chapter begins with a stunning, full-page photograph of a gull on the left; each photo shows the gull with wings raised, facing right as if in expectation of wonderful things. But, I think the birding world is big enough to accommodate more than one way to identify the members of this infamous family.

North America 199

North America America El Salvador Nicaragua 199

10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2012

A few families have a small number of eggs in the clutches, like gulls or cormorants. One North American species I am very familiar with is the Cassin’s Auklet , which ranges from the end of the Aleutian Islands to California. Some birds pump em out by the dozen in the hope that at least one or two survive. So why do it?

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Eggs Puffins Breeding Raised 164

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Birders have a natural tendency to appreciate variety in form, from the bewildering range of colors displayed within a single avian family, to minute distinctions between otherwise similar birds wholly inscrutable to the untrained eye (or even to those of many birders!). The bird is a cartoonish, all-red parrot with a yellow bill.

Ohio 113

Ohio India Hawaii United States 113

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2012

The Natural History section points out that Red-tailed Pennants hold their wings flat or slightly lowered, while the skimmers tend to raise their wings. Species accounts are organized by family; Broad-winged, Spreadwing, and Pond for damselflies and Petaltail, Darner, Clubtail, Spiketail, Cruiser, Emerald, and Skmmer for Dragonflies.

United States 231

United States Costa Rica Massachusetts North America 231

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 5, 2011

My own encounters with the Western Gull were in the same location that Dawson met them, the Farallon Islands in California. They are to my mind the wildest of the gulls, a already much unappreciated and unloved family of birds (even amongst birders), and they bring a dash of the true wild to the streets and shores where we meet them.

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Breeding Collecting California Hunting 175

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Because of the ongoing public health situation around the world, travel and large family gatherings are out of the question over much of the country, which means dialing down the gluttonous feasting for which the day is famous.

2018 216

2018 Fowl Turkey California 216

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2019

I birded parks, landfills, fields, backyards, skies, oceans, lakes, ponds, and roads in 15 states–some familiar haunts and patches, some as part of family visits, some while passing through, some adventures with friends (three trips with N.J. In the meantime, it’s a good topic for holiday family gatherings. ” [[link].

2018 155

2018 New Jersey Michigan North Dakota 155

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 28, 2015

This of course raises questions of what happens when all of the inland nesting grounds of all the loons becomes covered with glacial ice during ice ages, then later, the ice melts and the lakes return. We were vacationing in Santa Barbara, California, and one day took a ride through wine country, inland and north.

2015 184

2015 Costa Rica Birds Sparrows 184