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

DECEMBER 15, 2012

Felonious Jive really likes a ravishing returning rarity – a Falcated Duck. Falcated Duck by Felonious Jive Duncan Wright had some pretty good birds to choose from for his Best Bird of the Year. Red Junglefowl by Mike Bergin Clare Kines chose an egg as his Best Bird of the Year. Sound good? And, no, I am not kidding.

2012 155

2012 Birds Guatemala Florida 155

10,000 Birds

MARCH 9, 2011

We have avian beauty right in our European back yards as well, and need not seek cover when encountering birders from far-away shores. 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*.

2011 167

2011 Birds Deer Europe 167