10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 21, 2023
Perhaps those people have never had to personally experience increasingly erratic climate patterns. Still, I was nervous when I pushed a collection of highly-qualified friends (four ornithologists and a botany professor) to accompany me to the small San José de las Torres reservoir, just above the city of Morelia.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
In 2018, there were 1,745 birds living in 92 different zoos and collections. Such an intimate encounter with one of the world’s rarest birds was a memorable experience. On a visit in October 2022, I found ibises feeding with cattle in scruffy roadside paddocks adjacent to the marismas ( photographs below ).
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10,000 Birds
JANUARY 28, 2014
This land has gone through extensive ecosystem destruction from farming cattle and soybeans. The first views of a Brown Cachalote made up for all of the dust sucking experience. My first heat thumping experience came when I saw the Crested Hornero. Another crested bird adding to my collection. The closer we got to J.V.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 4, 2014
The star of such huge concentrations is the massive Jabiru , towering over a diverse collection of South American waterbirds such as Sunbittern , Plumbeous Ibis , and Southern Screamer. The incredible lighting at dawn in the Pantanal is an experience in of itself. I must mention one thing.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 13, 2015
Recent publicity about these remarkable tribes has resulted in tourists wanting to experience this wild land and its attractions for themselves. It lies adjacent to Nechisar National Park, where the lone wing of the mysterious Nechisar Nightjar was collected in 1990. A Konso village perched atop a terraced hill.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 18, 2011
Found throughout South America in ever-dwindling numbers these extremely beautiful birds – threatened by habitat destruction and collection for the wild bird trade – are often difficult to see and hard to find. The experience is one of the ornithological highlights in the world. Want to Go Bird Banding in Amazonian Peru?
Animal Ethics
MARCH 3, 2008
And, in a world where there is too much hate, the judgment of many earnest moralists is overwhelmed by the charms of love; and there are those who come to accept it at its own valuation and are thus led to assert that people have an obligation to increase the collective total of all value in the universe.
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