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. And while Dogwoods and Eastern Redbuds may be great options in Massachusetts, they won’t grow for me in Morelia, Mexico. Golden-fronted Woodpeckers apparently like blackberries, too.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 29, 2014

Sorry, that was gratuitous – HAWRs are Happy Wrens , and they live in Mexico.). Fried rehabbers become emotional in ways that make perfect sense to us, but not necessarily to anyone else. Maureen Eiger categorizes any unidentifiable featherless nestlings as “ Tufted Puffins ;” to Letitia Labbie, they’re “Eggs With Legs.”.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2024

I flew into Denver from Mexico. I was high and happy, not from “420” drugs but from the altitude and the anticipation of seeing woodpeckers and owls I had never seen before. Soon Steller’s Jay , both Downy and Hairy Woodpecker , Mountain Chickadee , Pygmy Nuthatch and White-breasted Nuthatch were everywhere.

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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.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2012

This totally crazy bird is the crème de la crème of the cracid family, and besides being endangered (population estimated at under 2,500), its habitat choice of cloudforests on the steep slopes of a few volcanoes and mountains in southern Mexico and south-western Guatemala makes it a tough bird to seek. What better way to start a birding day?

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