10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2012

Of course, I jest a bit in the above paragraph because as a sometime New Jersey birder I have birded the Delaware Bay and seen sights such as the memorable image below, in which thousands of Red Knots, Dunlins, and Short-billed Dowitchers fly up as if connected telepathically. million in the late 1990’s. Can the gulls be controlled?

Delaware 182

Delaware New Jersey Research Eggs 182

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2022

They did flush eventually, but not because of humans. I was glad I had my spotting scope with me and that I had practice spotting ‘Buffies’ from hours of searching sod fields in Long Island and New Jersey. Surprisingly, the Avocet area was not fenced off. I imagined walking right up to them.

Houston 220

Houston Texas Sanctuary Sparrows 220

10,000 Birds

JULY 1, 2014

They cut down the trees the parrots used for nesting and brought black rats, who ate their eggs, and honeybees who swarmed into their nests, and by 1937 there were only about 2,000 Puerto Rican Parrots left. Spanish settlers arrived in 1493 and called the birds Coterras. Other Europeans came. Africans were brought over as slaves.

Puerto Rico 239

Puerto Rico Parrots New York City 2013 239

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

I am a city girl and until I became a birder my contact with hunting was limited to occasionally seeing dead deer on the tops of cars in upstate New York. I am a city girl and until I became a birder my contact with hunting was limited to occasionally seeing dead deer on the tops of cars in upstate New York. Barker and Carrol L.

Ducks 122

Ducks North America Geese Hunters 122