10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2021

He found some solace when, at age eleven, he became entranced with birds – specifically, with a Green Woodpecker — and that sighting, he says, “took me to another, safer world.” . As McMullan tells it, birding goes pretty well with the military lifestyle, at least for himself and a select few others. He probably should do.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2019

When it comes down to it, birders can partake in the hobby, lifestyle, or passion however they want (as long as they don’t harm themselves, others, or the birds). Rufous-winged Woodpecker. Not as fancy as some of the other birds, this range restricted woodie is nonetheless much easier to connect with in Costa Rica.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

As an independent illustrator, he regularly contributed art to Ford Times , a “lifestyle” magazine published by the Ford Motor Company. He describes his experience in his introduction to Birds & Words : I took my first good look at birds as subject matter. White article on bird feeding stations.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2014

It prompted a lot of questions, many of which I had previously answered by simple supposition and presumption, but which now became highlighted as inadequate in the light of this experience. He looked about for a moment, as if to check that the coast was clear, then bent down to the very same spot that the woodpecker had been tending.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2014

It’s an intriguing proposal — none of these birds had belonged much of anywhere before (heck, bustards were dumped in Gruiformes with cranes and rails) — and it means that birds adapted either to arboreal or to ground-dwelling lifestyles more than once within the clade. Jarvis et al. Australaves: Songbirds and Their Kin.

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