10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2022

The Eurasian Wryneck is the woodpecker that doesn’t look like a woodpecker, the bird with the portmanteau name that is also a medical condition (and which may remind some people of a Nora Ephron essay). and the rural Austrian folk name natterzunge or ‘adder tongue.’ Yet, The Wryneck does not read like a literature review.

Woodpeckers 224

Woodpeckers Hungary Thailand 2014 224

Animal Ethics

MAY 23, 2007

Well-planned vegan diets are healthful for pregnant mothers and their infants, as well as for older children, according to a large body of scientific research. The medical journal Lancet recently published findings showing that children who are not adequately nourished in the first five years of life sometimes never catch up to their peers.

New York Times 40

New York Times New York Vegan 2007 40

10,000 Birds

MAY 15, 2023

For example, a researcher and presumed ornithologist set out with two hypotheses related to the Ashy Drongo (and another drongo species) and wrote a paper about it. Parts of her real-life biography provide an explanation why before around 1880, the life expectancy of male humans was not lower than for females and may even have been higher.

China 176

China 2017 Birds Indonesia 176