10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2020

It didn’t occur to me till I started reading The Falcon Thief: A True Tale of Adventure, Treachery, and the Hunt for the Perfect Bird that there was also a possible threat to the eagle herself: poachers, who steal raptor eggs and chicks. McWilliam realizes he’s dealing someone special, a career falcon egg-thief.

Falcons 224

Falcons United Kingdom Zimbabwe Eggs 224

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Heinrich never answers the question definitively (but then lots of questions about bird behavior don’t have definite answers, not to us). But Heinrich uses the term to mean (probably) that a strange female has laid her egg in a nest she did not make – a la the cowbird or cuckoo.

Eggs 131

Eggs Emotional Bats 2014 131

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

There are 160 to 200 species of marine birds here, depending on your definition of “marine bird” (Fox defines it as “species traditionally considered coastal,” including birds like Sandhill Cranes with the more traditional tubenoses, gulls, and ducks).

Fox 100

Fox Albatross Geese Bald Eagle 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 9, 2011

In the finest tradition of Romanticism, gulls dwell in the mystic world of dark and morbid imagery and emotions, which is expressed in often eroticized ways of aesthetic self-dramatization*. How do I know of their Gothic moods when they have hidden them so well in an egg-white shell of conformity? And definitely take a look at gulls.

2011 167

2011 Birds Deer Europe 167

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2012

Definitely one of the highlights of my birding career! Red Junglefowl by Mike Bergin Clare Kines chose an egg as his Best Bird of the Year. However, I am in a fierce and highly emotional year list competition with Corey, and it looks like I will lose against him. And, no, I am not kidding. My own Best Bird of the Year is easy.

2012 155

2012 Birds Guatemala Florida 155