10,000 Birds
MAY 9, 2022
It’s a slim volume, a republication, mostly, of a chapter from her fine 2010 book Birdology , with some added material including an introduction, in which she describes how she has, a decade after her first experience with falconry (as described in the main part of the book), “come back for more.” We serve them.”.
10,000 Birds
JULY 24, 2021
Grouse are the chickens we would love to lay eyes on. One such surprising experience happened with grouse. In keeping with gamebird tradition, my first experience with grouse wasn’t one of a bird on a branch or something singing from a tree. Wood-warblers lived in those Appalachian forests, many of them!
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 3, 2015
I am not sure of the date, still have to find it in one of those notebooks, but I was some 150 miles south of Belgrade, at the Celijsko Dam, counting Eurasian Coots , many of them grazing the banks, very much like domestic chickens would. Among the birds in the shallows, there was one strange sight. What is it doing??
10,000 Birds
MAY 28, 2015
When such a company runs a nature reserve, it is a bit like having a fox to watch over your chickens. After that experience, I stopped complaining about their hides, realising that they are as good as they ever will be. The hide overlooking the breeding colony of Red-footed Falcons. They got the message right. And so did I.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 20, 2014
One of the other papers released last week identified chickens — of 21 species studied — as having the most similar genome “to the common avian ancestor, probably a bipedal feathered dinosaur” ( Romanov et al. Jarvis et al. Australaves: Songbirds and Their Kin. Eight years ago, Ericson et al. Hackett et al.
10,000 Birds
JULY 7, 2020
The essays are arranged in almost AOS taxonomic order, with changes made to lessen confusion for new birders–falcons are grouped with hawks, all water birds come before land birds, etc. Some of the chapters focus on a specific bird, most are about bird families like hawks, tanagers, wrens, etc.,
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 30, 2011
The lagoon outside offered other experiences too. They strolled around like fierce chickens, too young to know any better. It was exciting to discover local Peregrine Falcons surveying Bolinas Lagoon and getting to know the tides helped me find secretive Clapper Rails on the edge of SF Bay. I was transfixed. … a.
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