10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2015

This week’s guest blog was written by Linda Hufford, who has been a wildlife rehabilitator specializing in raptors for over twenty years. The Moustached Kingfisher was known by only three samples– one female “collected” in the 1920’s, the other two females “collected” in the 1950’s, according to an Audubon Magazine article.

Collecting 240

Collecting Wildlife Rehabilitation Solomon Islands Texas 240

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

There is a lot of extreme behavior here (and a lot of that behavior takes place in Australia), but this is not simply a collection of the world’s most fantastic bird tales.

Research 221

Research Birds Science Costa Rica 221

10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2012

Slaty-backed Gull at a dump, Baikal Teal at a sewage pond, Yellow-green Vireo at some random park in the ghetto…if a place collects birds, birders will go there. This Snail Kite, photographed from my treacherous 1999 Honda Accord, was right outside Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge, FL. Pine Lake Park, San Francisco, CA.

San Francisco 208

San Francisco Birds North Dakota Oakland 208

Animal Person

DECEMBER 21, 2009

And of course, shuttling wildlife to and fro, and contemplating their place in our lives and our place in theirs. Based on whatever data she collected, she’d alter her course and continue her search. She had quite a system, slinking down low and moving swiftly from one plant to the next, one bookcase to the next.

Greyhounds 100

Greyhounds Dogs Ducks Litter 100