10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

It may look like a cartoon, but while birding Philippines, Phoebe Snetsinger literally slept in a prison, because its buffer zone held the only remaining forest in the agricultural landscape. You know how Thomas Cook has founded the first tour agency in the early 1800s? And as environmentalists, we would hate to see that happen.

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Sri Lanka Costa Rica India Cooking 278

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The bird “spent five months on Mindoro Island in the Philippines during the non-breeding season and migrated through Taiwan, the Chinese east coast, and the Korean peninsula” and on to the Russian Far East (indicating a certain lack of solidarity with Ukraine). The other information on this species is much sadder.

China 186

China Birds Ukraine Killing 186

10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2014

While in Mexico, up on the roof of a casa (where I was cooking something up) I saw a murmeration! The zoo has already identified several species like the huge monkey-eating Philippine eagle that are at once distinct, endangered, and suffer from lack of attention. But that’s not the most interesting thing I’ve seen recently.

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Birds Bald Eagle Zoos Philippines 182