10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2021

Grouse are the chickens we would love to lay eyes on. I daresay Fred wanted to do the hike more than we did but being kids before the digital age, we were always game for outdoor adventures. That way, you can at least know where the cool chickens are hanging out, at least know where to carefully watch for them.

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Costa Rica Chickens Pennsylvania Litter 264

Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

But the method she advocates for reaching those goals—raising grass-eating, pasture-foraging farm animals—would appear to be notoriously difficult to reproduce on a scale large enough to harvest enough meat, at a reasonable cost, for all the people wanting to eat meat in this country, let alone the world. Lois Bloom Easton, Conn.,

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New York Times New York Meat San Antonio 40

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

I used to play Subbuteo as a kid … a kind of tip-kick football game that was named after this species (apparently, the inventors first wanted to name the game “Hobby” but that was rejected as too generic, or so the story goes). The Eurasian Hobby was another notable raptor of the month.

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Birds China Eggs Owls 196

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

That’s what you do with other game, right? You can designate it thus; you can legally call it a Rhode Island Red chicken if you want, but no whooping crane on this planet is nonessential. Why not just shoot the biggest one? The biggest gobbler, the biggest buck… And this? I thought whooping cranes were all white.

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2011 Hunting Kentucky Hunters 242

10,000 Birds

APRIL 25, 2015

Why did the chicken cross the archipelago? Indiana teacher raises the bar for newbie birders everywhere by finding the state’s first record of a Black-tailed Godwit. It’s not quite Tippi Hedren–worthy, but birds swarming your living room is probably fair game for some NSFW language. Now you have.

Malta 183

Malta Barn Owls Cyprus Fowl 183