10,000 Birds
MAY 9, 2022
It’s a slim volume, a republication, mostly, of a chapter from her fine 2010 book Birdology , with some added material including an introduction, in which she describes how she has, a decade after her first experience with falconry (as described in the main part of the book), “come back for more.”
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 29, 2014
He introduces ideas and slowly builds on them, staring with the outbreak of Hendra in people and horses in Queensland before moving the story to his own experiences of great ape die-off when he was covering Michael Fay’s Megatransect in the Congo Basin. The disease had killed a tourist like ourselves.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 29, 2013
We went to settle into our room, and since I had about an hour to kill before dinner, I took a quick walk around the property. I can hardly begin to describe the surreal experience that unfolded before me. It is truly a magical place, an experience like none other. Finally, we arrived at the Hotel Latrabjarg to check in.
Animal Ethics
JANUARY 30, 2007
It's a sad day for horse lovers. Barbaro's killing is a case of euthanasia. Euthanasia is often called mercy killing, for obvious reasons: Its motive is mercy. It is done for the sake of the being who is killed, rather than for the sake of some other being or beings or of society generally.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 7, 2017
Aisholpan Nurgaiv is a graceful, rosy-cheeked 13-year old girl with a magic smile who makes living on the edge of nowhere and forever look like the easiest experience in the world. And, when the eagle fights and ultimately kills the fox, we get a bloody glimpse into another side of eagle hunting—its savagery and its original purpose.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 10, 2018
There’s always a chance that we could ingest something bad for us, something that might even kill us – a peril we face anytime we swallow anything, in fact. If you can advertise beer with Clydesdale horses, bull terriers, and bullfrogs, I don’t see why you can’t use a Eurasian Tree Sparrow. Louis, Missouri population.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 26, 2018
In A Feathered River Across the Sky , Joel Greenberg quotes the experience of the residents of Columbus, Ohio in 1855: “Now everyone was out of the houses and stores, looking apprehensively at the growing cloud, which was blotting out the rays of the sun. Horses bolted. Is this the type of avian experience we want?
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