10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

The world’s biggest flying bird—the Sarus Crane , with a maximum of height of 6 feet/1.8 meters—has had a rough go of it. Due to habitat encroachment and environmental degradation in its traditional home base of Asia, the bird’s worldwide population has dropped to roughly 20,000 individuals, marking it as a Vulnerable species. But the International Crane Foundation—with the support of some Thai farmers—is slowly but steadily making headway toward restoring the crane in the wild.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 12, 2016

See here.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

Little things, you may have heard, mean a lot. L.M. Montgomery wrote that it’s dreadful what little things lead people to misunderstand each other. That observation hits home this week, but I stand with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who pointed out that the little things are infinitely the most important, not just in solving mysteries but also in our daily lives.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

I’m on a fortnightly schedule here now, but I’m submitting a quick story in my off week in the light of recent events. Not that event, I don’t feel like posting five hundred lines of increasingly incoherent swearing, but the 7.5 earthquake that struck South Island just after midnight on Monday morning. That event also had me swearing a lot this week, especially when it struck.

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Speaker: Steve Romanco

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 12, 2016

There are a lot of side benefits to birding. Those of us who have had our eyes magnetically drawn to all things avian have realized this from time to time, especially if we have spent years squishing through marshes in search of LeConte’s Sparrows , giving blood to bugs in places like Alaska, heavenly scented boreal bogs, and muddy mangroves, and trudging through thin air landscapes to see if we can spot a bird that looks kind of like a chicken.

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Costa Rica Birds Chickens Goats 153

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Before we get started I’d like to congratulate the Whiskey Jack on becoming the National Bird of Canada ! The Gray Jay (once also, and perhaps again, known as the Canada Jay) inspired this feature, so I owe it a deep debt of gratitude. Now on with the show… I always sort of assumed that the Crissal Thrasher was named for a Mr. Crissal, a long-dead ornithologist, perhaps a buddy or a rival of Mr.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

Travelling east from Keep River National Park on the border of Western Australia and the Northern Territory the next National Park that you come to is the Judbarra/Gregory National Park. It is a vast park with much of it only accessible by four-wheel drive. It is also a very popular park for accessing the Victoria River to catch a Barramundi! There are plenty of opportunities for observing crocodiles, a huge variety of birds, rock art, hiking trails and spectacular scenery.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Those who know me don’t often find me quoting the Bible, but the roller coaster of emotions many Americans have ridden on this past week, not to mention the endless ebb and flow of fortune around the world, has a verse from Ecclesiastes ringing in my ears: A generation goes and a generation comes, But the earth remains forever. Also, the sun rises and the sun sets; And hastening to its place it rises there again.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

As of this posting Donald Trump LOST the popular vote of the 2016 presidential election by over 1,000,000 votes. So if you hear anyone try to claim that Trump has a mandate, feel free to laugh in their face. The latest news of the Donald’s cabinet picks should make any conservation minded person very nervous. According to National Public Radio (NPR).

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