10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

And while we may at times help others with their mental health issues, we pastors must also attend to our own emotional stability. Yes, birding can be a wonderful tool for maintaining mental health. Why is birding such an effective mental health tool? My day will be great whether I see 80 species or only 30.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

Many animals also display wide-ranging emotions, including joy, happiness, empathy, compassion, grief, and even resentment and embarrassment. It’s not surprising that animals—especially, but not only, mammals—share many emotions with us because we also share brain structures—located in the limbic system—that are the seat of our emotions.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 12, 2015

Today I want to talk about how it also damages conservation by, in much the same way as other media does, by reducing issues to pithy statements, devoid of nuance and heavily laden with emotion, and shaping the opinion of millions as it does so. Conservation is concerned about protecting populations, species, habitats, ecosystems.

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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. Paul Island, Alaska and has been reworked into an even more exceptional essay about guiding work on the island, where the unusual is the norm and bird guides use a tool kit of time and space.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Unless you are nothing but the lowly diehard lister, for which you should feel much shame and embarrassment for, birders and biologists alike frequently want to understand birds on a deeper level than how to identify the age, sex and species of a certain individual. What seeds does a Baird’s Sparrow eat?

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10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2018

In some cases, he took all adult males of the species or subspecies held by the museum. The skins were invaluable tools for ornithological, ecological, environmental research. The Flame Bowerbird, for example. Or, to keep the priceless feathers hidden away in drawers, protected in small plastic bags, prized in secret.

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