10,000 Birds
MARCH 14, 2022
I learned of the trip right as it had been delayed and made a vow that I would be on that ship. After securing our passage, I patiently waited for this once-in-a-lifetime experience to a place we have never been and lacked any knowledge of, we were in for a complete surprise. Salvin’s Prion.
10,000 Birds
JULY 27, 2014
We found a spot where the pack ice hadn’t completely come in and stayed for hours, watching curious Ringed Seal watching us. Hopefully a few photographs can help convey the experience. Ringed Seal. This is big country, Kangiq is just off the right of the photo, jutting out into Lancaster Sound.
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10,000 Birds
JANUARY 21, 2016
Right: Robert McCormick, by Stephen Pearce. Unlike Darwin, who was a self-funded gentleman naturalist on board, McCormick was bound to the Beagle by his duties and was furious that a civilian passenger on board had usurped his rightful position as ship’s naturalist. (“Antarctica” by Kim Stanley Robinson, 1998).
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 14, 2015
Experience shows that bird parents do feed babies in makeshift nests reattached to tree branches, bushes, gutters, and even tree cavity sections duct taped to another tree. Putting a baby bird back in its nest is not always the right thing to do. Did you know a bird’s body has the ability to seal a small puncture wound within minutes?
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 29, 2014
It’s become regrettably political in the US right, which is the absolute worst response to a potential pandemic going. The bacteria that laid me low earlier this year is a zoonosis, causing problems for New Zealand’s endemic seals as well as visitors to Borneo. ” Ebola is in the news a lot at the moment.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 6, 2019
And, for the hornbills above, an old tree hollow: Mama built a sealed nest. The poem is on the left side of each two-page spread and a factual paragraph about the nesting process–usually brief, but sometimes fairly detailed–is located on the right side. within an old tree’s hollow. My daddy left a little hole.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 2, 2012
This may be the most awesome pelagic you’ll ever experience… For me it was the publication in 1984 of Peter Harrison’s ground-breaking identification guide to ‘ Seabirds ’ that opened up the off-shore world of pelagic birding right on Cape Town’s door step.
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