10,000 Birds

MAY 11, 2012

Somewhere around the Platte River one of the Audubon boys received a black-footed hide from a fur trader. American scientists, realizing belatedly how embarrassing it was to know so little about a species right in the heart of their own continent, rushed to study this remnant population.

Ferrets 192

Ferrets South Dakota Wyoming Captive Animal 192

10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2016

In the early morning out on the water there were plenty of Fluttering Shearwaters and Australasian Gannets, and close to a salmon farm we found New Zealand Fur Seals as well as Pied Shags, Little Shags and Spotted Shags (I can only assume that kiwis just like calling all cormorants shags because they are all five years old).

Charlotte 119

Charlotte New Zealand Seals Fur 119

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Aleutian Cackling Geese are another bird very familiar with the Pacific; they are the only species of goose that nest on Alaska’s remote Aleutian Islands. In the mid 1700s, fur-traders began introducing foxes up and down the Aleutian chain, in order to generate some more raw material work with. What a horror! What a disaster!

Albatross 215

Albatross Endangered Species Geese Alaska 215