10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 24, 2020
ELs are fat around the waist, their weight is more pronounced towards the front end, and when you raise your fingers, letting ELs rest only against your thumbs, they start falling down, front end first. And when you raise your fingers, well balanced NLs happily rest against your thumbs, not falling to either side.
10,000 Birds
MAY 13, 2022
The Asian Koel is a cuckoo species and thus freed from the obligation to raise its own chicks (though the birds like to refer to themselves as brood parasites, which sounds a bit less obviously selfish). Would it worry you to sit next to me on a plane or train and listen to this kind of information for several hours? Lucky ducks.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 1, 2011
If you cannot find the nest or it’s too destroyed, do not try and raise a chick this young. It’s illegal to raise wild birds (even orphaned ones) without state and federal permits. The first few years for female ducks and geese are kind of practice rounds. Never raise a wild goose or duckling yourself.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 27, 2016
From Manchester we took a train east to the closest train station to my parents’ home and over those three hours we watched eagerly from the train window for any British birds! Our first birding experiences with UK ducks after so long was frustrating when they all seemed to be tail up! Tufted Duck.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 14, 2011
Letters from Eden (Houghton Mifflin, 2006) will soon be followed by a memoir about the birds she has raised, healed, studied and followed throughout her life. You don’t even have to have a duck stamp! She illustrates her books and magazine articles with her own sketches and watercolor paintings. Isn’t that neat?
10,000 Birds
MAY 8, 2017
Seriously, Panama raises the art of under-communication to new, deplorable heights. Black-bellied Whistling-Duck. One along the train tracks near Summit Ponds. Let’s be honest: driving around Panama sucks. Even though roads are numbered on maps, we never saw those numbers referenced anywhere in the real world. Great Tinamou.
10,000 Birds
JULY 4, 2022
As with Chinese male humans, having your own building is still vital to raising young. Random thought: What if I had died a month ago and never heard anything from The Burning Hell, nor the new Mountain Goats song “Training Montage” … Such sad and depressing thinking. Nest building: a good activity for a rainy day.
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