10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 5, 2017
I know I neglected to ask you where you were birding this weekend, but don’t ever think that means I don’t want to know. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Any good bird sighting deserves to be shared and enjoyed. So fire away! What was your best bird of the weekend?
10,000 Birds
JULY 30, 2014
I bring this up not to boast (well, not much) but because I think that this approach to wildlife travel is somewhat neglected in birding circles. Volunteering provides a very different experience to tourism though. You may not get the species counts that the race delivers, but you’ll have memories burned into your skull.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 30, 2018
It would use that mini rapier of a beak to full poking effect if the hapless human tried to take a sip from its feeder, or pick one of its flowers, or even neglect to fill the feeder on time. For hummingbirds, though, since cooperation leads to quick starvation, they ain’t no such thing as a team!
10,000 Birds
MARCH 8, 2011
Getting to know the subtleties in differences between closely related species takes years of dedication and practice. Thirdly, many species of shorebirds display such vast differences in their summer and winter plumages that it is always interesting to note how some birds in the same flock are in contrasting stages of plumage.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 15, 2020
A single morning birding the thorny desert of Baringo in Kenya’s Rift Valley yielded several species at a rate I at times struggled to keep up with. Lake Baringo and the surrounding desert scrub at just over 3,000 feet elevation is one of the most profitable birding hotspots in the country, boasting approximately 470 species.
Animal Person
NOVEMBER 1, 2009
I neglected to take the camera into the courtyard in the beginning, though I did bring the hounds and their beds. It's about not fetishizing one species while making an industry of torturing others. Violet was spooked early on, but Charles stayed for the entire evening. Veganism, to me, is about justice.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 17, 2015
Florida is perhaps the one place in the United States where you can rack up a pretty great list of birds, including some of North America’s most impressive species, simply by walking down the sidewalk for an hour or so. That was largely due to the vagaries of a single rental car and two young children, but it wasn’t so bad.
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