10,000 Birds
JUNE 6, 2023
Eight years later, Christian Cooper birding Central Park became a very different kind of media image: the black man falsely accused by a white woman of threatening her life after asking her to leash her dog in the Ramble, an area where unleashed dogs are not allowed. It was the same day George Floyd was killed. I remember that day.
10,000 Birds
JULY 19, 2015
It is truly getting into the dog days of summer here in the northeastern United States. humidity so thick you can practically swim through the air, and the sweet stench of urine in the New York City subway all combine to make life miserable. What was your best bird of the weekend?
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10,000 Birds
MAY 9, 2022
It’s a slim volume, a republication, mostly, of a chapter from her fine 2010 book Birdology , with some added material including an introduction, in which she describes how she has, a decade after her first experience with falconry (as described in the main part of the book), “come back for more.” May 3, 2022. May 3, 2022.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 4, 2016
My family and I indulged this weekend in the kind of deep-fried treats you can only find at the New York State Fair… bacon-wrapped corn dog, anyone? If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Then comes what will likely be a very warm fall.
10,000 Birds
JULY 10, 2016
The dog days of summer are upon us though here at 10,000 Birds we call them bird days. The bittern was nice but it was even better to see Desi even if he didn’t want to leave to head home to hot New York City! If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you?
4 The Love Of Animals
MARCH 7, 2013
Rock & Rawhide , the charity that helps increase adoption levels of dogs and cats in shelters, announced today that it is included in Animal Care & Control of NYC (AC&C)’s latest advertising campaign, “New York’s Kindest” for their donations and assistance in increasing adoption levels through distraction therapy.
Animal Person
FEBRUARY 5, 2010
" Dog Days in China " is a small piece with no gruesome slideshow. But it's also remarkable in that Roger Cohen, a 50-something man who writes for the New York Times, wonders: But do pigs have any more or less of a soul than dogs? But as Cohen experiences, humans don't live "in theory." And that's the bad news.
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