10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2013

Handing out T-shirts at the registration desk with a summer intern from the Field Museum (one of the conference’s sponsoring groups) gave me a good feel for who was around and what ornithologists are like. Like most conferences, this one had an exhibit hall and poster session, too. Emptied of their contents, of course.).

San Diego 179

San Diego Ostriches Chicago Colorado 179

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Will the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) conference delegates up-list them to Appendix I of the Convention, forbidding any future sale over international borders? One may say so. I say they were butchered, face-off. EU voted as a block of 28 votes “against”. Block of 28 votes did.

Elephants 190

Elephants Botswana Zimbabwe Africa 190

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

We haven’t seen the reason yet, but suddenly you could have palpated a tension in the air that made the zebras step away and even one female Ostrich stand up… Then the Lord of the waterhole came, a young – although nine years old White Rhinoceros. The bull weighing almost two tones stopped at the edge of the clearing to sniff the air.

Rhinos 174

Rhinos South Africa Rhinoceros White Rhinos 174

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 5, 2014

1700, is a fake, formed from a plaster cast of a real Dodo head and real Dodo feet combined with chicken wings and Ostrich feathers. Do you include objects related to ornithology–published taxonomies and proceedings or a conference program from an ornithological organization, and if so, which one?

Collecting 172

Collecting Mauritius Egypt Cyprus 172