10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2022

The book is richly illustrated with contributions from a group of birders/photographers who were fortunate to see and document many of the vagrants covered. There are many more factors than I imagined: compass errors, wind drift, overshooting, extreme weather and irruptions, natural dispersal, and human-driven vagrancy.

Birds 264

Birds Compassion Eagles Science 264

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

Just think, if no one was there to document this, would it really have happened? I have had similar experiences at Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge and you are so right on when you say “am I ever glad that I am a birder! It was a great experience. Were you and Jeff the only witnesses? What a spectacle indeed.

Ducks 197

Ducks 2011 Jamaica New York 197

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

The experience is one of the ornithological highlights in the world. Geophagy, the intentional consumption of soil by vertebrates, has long been documented in a number of bird and mammal species – including wide-spread use by humans – which consume soil to increase absorption of certain minerals not naturally occurring in the local diet.

Peru 255

Peru Parrots 2011 South America 255

Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 23, 2006

Compassion like that almost makes one think that we should start shooting the 1 billion humans on the brink of starvation to provide them quick and relatively painless deaths rather than slow protracted ones.] rather than a slow death from starvation." that slow us down and make us chronically ill.”

Factory Farm 40

Factory Farm Factory Farming Morals Meat 40