10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The resident fashion critic of eBird is not very impressed with the Orange-backed Woodpecker , stating that it is “dressed all in patchwork” It has one of the more stupid-sounding genus names – Reinwardtipicus, which is made up of the name of Dutch naturalist Prof. Back to birds. Lucky him, right?

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 10, 2020

But I would never have imagined how important it would be to my emotional well-being to have a bird-friendly garden during lockdown. Every other year or so, we experience the lightest of frosts, nothing killing, and our warmest temperatures (in the 80s and 90s) occur in late spring. One of our birdiest plants.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 29, 2014

Veronica Bowers calls Cliff Swallows “Chirpies,” Shirah Gantman’s nestling Rock Doves are “Squeakers,” European Starlings are “Hawk Food” to Laura Culley, and all woodpeckers are “Peckers” to Nancy Barbachano, who rehabs them in the Pecker Palace (see Happy Wrens). I once went through a short illustration phase. Here’s an example.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2023

It was the same day George Floyd was killed. Reading this chapter, I thought back to the emotional conversations I, a white Jewish woman, had with birding friends back in May 2020, mostly online (remember, it was still the pandemic). I remember that day. It’s powerful writing. Shockingly, not everybody supported Chris.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The 26 essays in When Birds Are Near are all about the real-life and emotional spaces where people overlap with birds. And, in “The Black and White,” Sara Crosby tells the evocative tale of finding a deceased Black-and-white Warbler on Charles Street while walking her dog.

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