10,000 Birds
APRIL 2, 2024
Her experiences are framed within the larger scientific histories how once common species become endangered, and of how people and organizations have strategized and explored controversial paths to bring their numbers up and nurture them till they fill our skies. This is the chapter where Osborn talks about “second chances.”
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 9, 2017
A Cooper’s Hawk devouring a Feral Pigeon ! That is, unless there are a bunch of weird round organs inside of pigeons that I have never heard of. It was a very rewarding experience watching the hawk feed on the pigeon though perhaps not as memorable as one eating shish kebob. Binoculars to eyes and wow!
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 4, 2014
That’s a lot, and the organizers of the safari did an excellent job of creating an environment that offered small group birding during the day and a birders party every night. They range from the successful eradication of feral cats from Marion Island (hear that, Corey?) One thing did bother me. Wait, let’s backtrack a bit.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 5, 2013
Experiments in the field (the famed Asa Wright Nature Center veranda) involving Bananaquits and bananas came up with numbers ranging from 7 to 16, but a tanager always came along to interfere with Bananaquits’ noisy appreciation of their namesake fruit. (2) Which hummingbird was more beautiful—Tufted Coquette or Ruby-topaz Hummingbird? (3)
10,000 Birds
JULY 6, 2021
Like all talented travel writers, Dunn is adept at drawing us into his experiences. It is also a story about conservation: the danger hummingbirds have always been in from all sides, natural and human-made, and the ways in which individuals, community groups, and larger organizations are working to protect them.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 26, 2018
The causes were the usual reasons for island extinction—deforestation by both humans and invasive plants that crowded out native plants, hunting, and invasive rats, mongoose, monkeys, and, of course, feral cats. Is this the type of avian experience we want? We know what those large flocks were like.
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