10,000 Birds

JANUARY 6, 2014

It’s cold enough in Chicago—where our high temperature for the day was –2 degrees Farenheit—that the polar bear at the zoo spent the day inside. Is this “polar plunge” that’s gripping much of the U.S. Should you worry about their well-being as Holden Caulfield worries about the Central Park ducks ?

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Polar Bears Illinois Chicago Zoos 164

4 The Love Of Animals

APRIL 16, 2009

Inevitably, it’s a situation where you were there, and for me, it’s the swimming male polar bear. Then, of course, I’m a sucker for things that make me laugh, so I loved the jumping mandarin ducks, the mandarin ducks flinching and flying. It’s where we filmed all the polar bear material. Me: Thank you.

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Polar Bears Bears Walruses Norway 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 26, 2011

I headed out down past the half dozen homes left at the edge of town and out onto the sea ice, ducking below the windshield as I accelerated out to the point. I scanned the frozen ocean, after all this is Polar Bear country. It no longer gets dark now, and we are only about a week and a half from the Sun not setting at all.

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Polar Bears Bears Falcons Collecting 156

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 23, 2016

Coming from Niagara Falls, New York, it also means freezing, bitter cold, watching for imaginary Polar Bears while pretending to walk through an Arctic landscape, and looking for owls. American Black Duck – Anas rubripes; Niagara county, 2-Jan. Harlequin Duck – Histrionicus histrionicus; Niagara county, 2-Jan.

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Costa Rica 2016 San Antonio Sparrows 101