10,000 Birds

JANUARY 29, 2020

The third weekend of January, I travelled to the coastal city of Acapulco to give a seminar on family finances at a church there. And my one lifer for the trip was a family of Rufous-naped Wrens that apparently live in the same garden. My schedule was not too full, so there was lots of free time to check out the local fauna.

Birds 163

Birds 2006 Mexico Morocco 163

10,000 Birds

MAY 28, 2014

I remember going to a health and safety seminar and struggling to identify potential pitfalls. This has typically not been a problem as there isn’t generally a great deal to see in caves that isn’t a horrifying bug or a cave fish, and really, I’m fine not seeing them. Maybe I’d trip on rocks walking to the cave?

Bats 154

Bats Birds Vanuatu Namibia 154

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APRIL 6, 2012

Last semester, while taking a seminar devoted to reading Ulysses , I decided that what the world needed was an index to all the bird references in the works of James Joyce. The best of the book is in the more focused later sections, where each avian family is rigorously cross-referenced with every place in the Bible where it is mentioned.

Denver 168

Denver Birds 2000 Collecting 168