10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 21, 2022

By this time the sun was already stinging any exposed skin, as idyllic as the location was the white sand and azure water only served as reflectors, adding to the sensation of being mildly cooked as we counted birds. And yes, there was an official photographer sent to document us documenting birds – see the post here.

Falcons 228

Falcons Trinidad Ducks Groups 228

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2019

Nor are there any birding authorities requiring folks to identify, count and document the nuthatches, titmice and Downy Woodpeckers that come to their backyard feeders. However, if you can’t get a seat out back, no worries, just sit inside while enjoying home-cooked country fare. There’s a big wood-fired cooking set-up.

Costa Rica 194

Costa Rica Cooking Birds Chickens 194

10,000 Birds

JUNE 25, 2022

Take that same stroll in southern Brazil or other places and extinction is acres of burned rainforest, a walk through plastic decorated neighborhoods devoid of insects, massive forest fires, die-offs of animals, and millions of shellfish being cooked alive , in situ.

Costa Rica 247

Costa Rica Parrots Albatross Birds 247

10,000 Birds

MAY 20, 2014

All this energy can really do is to cook you, like in a microwave, but for that to happen you would need to be in a microwave (or perhaps right next to a very strong emitter, so do avoid climbing those huge towers with the microwave antennas on them!). However, extensive research has shown no evidence of harmful effects. So, there you go.

Humane 223

Humane Compassion Research Cooking 223

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

The birding process is stripped to the essentials without losing the significance of important, sometimes complex ideas—migration, habitat, research, documentation, community. This is their first title that is not a cook or crafts book, and I hope there will be more.

Birds 262

Birds North Carolina North America Science 262

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Midafternoon on 9 August 1825, Andrew Bloxam, the naturalist on the HMS Blonde, shot a starling on Mauke, an island in the Cook Islands. By the time they were looked at as a primary document it seems that most who saw them did not recognize the connection to the Mysterious Starling or their value in general. L 7 1/2 inch.

Killing 170

Killing Rats Cooking Norway 170

Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 23, 2006

Dr. Dean Ornish has also documented the heart-protective effects of plant-based diets, as has Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn of the Cleveland Clinic. As I have noted elsewhere, with minimal effort, people can learn to cook delicious vegetarian meals. that slow us down and make us chronically ill.”

Factory Farm 40

Factory Farm Factory Farming Morals Meat 40