10,000 Birds
MAY 4, 2021
Smith’s Longspurs, Vermillion Flycatchers, Burrowing Owls, Long-billed Curlews, Virginia Rails, Black Terns, Crested Caracaras–there’s a bird here for every taste. Adventures of a Louisiana Birder: One Year, Two Wings, Three Hundred Species. Map by Lynn Hathaway. Copyright @2019 by Louisiana State University Press.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 17, 2016
Bird species with big eyes and small bills tend to be labelled like so because those anthropomorphic features can trigger an emotional response but so what? This species is sometimes known as “amigo del hombre” (friend of man) because it can follow people through the forest to catch bugs scared out of hiding.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 10, 2021
(The White-tipped Dove is actually called, in Spanish, the Paloma Arroyera , or “Gully Dove” And sorry, I have yet to get a photo of this shy species. Like most of the species on this list, this tiny highland bird prefers to make its presence know by singing, rather than by being seen. You do want to see it.
4 The Love Of Animals
NOVEMBER 21, 2012
From dolphins and dogs who are swimming buddies, playful cheetahs and puppies who are best friends, owls and kitties playing leapfrog and much more! Watch a clip of an owl and the pussycat: What about an adorable cheetah and a Labrador puppy? These friends show us the emotional power of animals to bond with other species.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 2, 2013
Later on — after seven years at most, in the case of the Black-backed Woodpecker — these first responders are gone and the holes in the snags serve as nesting cavities for martens, and squirrels and Mountain Bluebirds and Flammulated Owls. Conservation black-backed woodpecker endangered species fire olive-sided flycatcher'
10,000 Birds
JULY 20, 2019
H is for Hawk was a hit for Helen Macdonald a few years back; and Wesley the Owl by Stacey O’Brien, The Parrot Who Owns Me by Joanna Burger; and Alex & Me by Irene Pepperberg are, each of them, delightful books as well. As she has done for many years and with more than twenty species, she adopted a baby bird, a blue jay.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 2, 2015
Second, reading about birds courting and parenting brings out the tendency to identify, which leads directly to anthropomorphism, the tendency to assign birds human emotions and thoughts. Which is not to say that it doesn’t contain striking images of birds parenting the most adorable songbirds, owls, and heron nestlings imaginable.
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