10,000 Birds
AUGUST 9, 2011
Starlings evoke a whole range of emotions. Individually or in small groups, starlings in North America elicit all manner of ill-will. However, free-wheeling flocks of Sturnus vulgaris transcend those vulgar emotions, instead inspiring awe and wonder.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 6, 2023
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). But before that, it was these feathered dreams that would carry me across the globe on adventures, in search of birds in faraway places. (p.
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 15, 2011
Alas, we’re also intimately acquainted with darker emotions; the lust in our hearts alone (for lifers and optics, naturally) exacts a heavy emotional toll. Instead, I envy the excitement brewing just one Great Lake away. Oh, and Corey will be there too! Aren’t you jealous too?
10,000 Birds
JUNE 14, 2012
Take, for example, the gem I found in the latest round of proposals to the American Ornithologists’ Union’s North American Classification Committee. Philosophy. Yes, I’m talking about scientific proposals to ornithological taxonomic authorities. ” Oh, honey.
10,000 Birds
MAY 4, 2021
With two of North America’s major flyways, Mississippi and Central, overhead, and with almost 400 miles of coastline Louisiana is one of those states where you can see Eastern and Western birds and a hell of a lot of shorebirds and waterfowl. (The And there are the birds.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 14, 2020
During these months every Wilson’s Snipe would be busy with breeding in northern North America. It toyed with my emotions for many minutes before it eventually flew off. In fact, there are no recorded sightings of any snipes on Tobago between May – July. How can one not love that face?
10,000 Birds
MARCH 31, 2012
The largest flying land birds in North America, they appear like folded umbrellas at first, their wing feathers draped blanket-like, enveloping bodies that naturally weigh about 20 pounds at maturity. I guess you’d call it deep-seated reverence for these North American vultures. Their size doesn’t escape you.
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