10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2016

India was not on my list of places to go in 2016. But, when I heard that it was the destination for the next American Birding Association Safari, and when I found out that many of my friends from the incredible ABA South Africa Safari were participating, as well as ABA hosts Jeff Gordon, Liz Deluna Gordon, and George Armistead, and that the trip was once again being coordinated by Rockjumper Birding, and that Rockjumper chief honcho Adam Riley (also a 10,000 Birds family member) would be one of

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 2, 2016

This blog had 1,157 visits during February, which is an average of 39.8 visits per day. A year ago, the average was 32.5.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2016

Today is the United Nations World Wildlife Day, a time to celebrate and raise awareness of the living world around us. I remember, several times while motionlessly surveying birds, I found myself being investigated by Striped Field Mice , who would dare to come to sniff me. They were probably just checking if I am already dead and possibly edible and not admiring me, but I admired them for their guts and curiosity to approach a creature so much bigger.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2016

Australian Bustards- Ardeotis australis are one of those birds that you hope to see if you are in the north of Australia and often encounters are accidental as they move quietly through the grass finding food. You are more likely to find them walking than flying and they are the heaviest flying bird in Australia. The average weight of a male bird is 6.3 kilograms whereas the Wedge-tailed Eagle only weighs in at 5.8 kilograms!

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2016

A couple of years ago Adam posted a story on this site that so entranced me that when I went to South Africa a bit over a year ago the location he described was top of my bucket list. That birding Mecca was the Sani Pass, and his article is all you need to read so rather than rehash it I’ll just link to it. But I did visit it, and saw many of the incredible species he described, one of which, my major target of the day, was the Drakensberg Rockjumper.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2016

Erratic weather patterns signal flux. These are the days when birds of one season overlap with those of another. Cherish them! I couldn’t quite turn a runt among Canada Geese at Genessee Valley Park into a Cackling , so my best bird had to be a flyover Sharp-shinned Hawk. Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was one of the several Canvasbacks he saw at World’s Fair Marina in Queens.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 27, 2016

It was a delightful afternoon. A weak winter sun lit the battlements and a slight breeze ruffled the surface of the water in the moat. “Shall we take a turn arind the grinds Dear?” asked Lady Gannet (she really does talk like that). These are not actually our grounds you understand but, for the price of admission, one can enjoy the splendour of Leeds Castle for a full year.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 1, 2016

Here are the posts from March 2006.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Culebra is the lesser known of the two major islands that lie off the eastern edge of Puerto Rico. Vieques is the island Americans tend to think of when they think of an island vacation destination off the coast of Puerto Rico, both because it is larger and because of the more recent and public fight to stop the American military from using it for bombing practice.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2016

As a child of the eighties, I experienced a number of elegies for Whooping Cranes. Commentators seemed to take their extinction as inevitable, although in fact their numbers had begun a slow climb from their historical nadir and would break the 100-individual mark in 1986. It was more that this was a gloomy era. Nuclear dread, viral plague, and a general sense that doom was upon us all probably had a lot to do with our vision of the Whooping Crane ‘s prospects.

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