10,000 Birds
JANUARY 17, 2024
A couple bends along the trail and it seemed as if we were out of human contact by a thousand miles. Suddenly, I felt as if I had been transported to a hundred million years prior. Fortunately, the parrot family is a raucous one, and before long I heard the rasping vocalisations of my intended targets.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 13, 2023
The family has about 37 species, but that includes several fulvettas – only 21 of the species have “parrotbill” in their names (and frankly, the bills of fulvettas do not look like those of parrots at all). The authors speculate that “human disturbance (i.e. Never fails to startle them. “See, only three!”
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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. These goods, purchased with Mexican silver, would then be transported overland through Mexico City, and shipped from Veracruz to Spain. And my hosts, God bless them, seemed eager to make that happen.
10,000 Birds
JULY 25, 2022
Gisela Kaplan has written a book about the species, and how they seem unperturbed by humans: “It’s one of their most successful defense strategies. The Black-faced Monarch is a relative in the same bird family, the Monarchidae. When going to Australia, one of the two birds I wanted to see most was the Tawny Frogmouth.
10,000 Birds
MAY 30, 2017
When Daisy started talking about a family trip to Maine for the long Memorial Day Weekend I had one thing on my mind: puffins! For nearly a hundred years, after the eggers, meat-hunters, plume-hunters, and a human-influenced gull population boom, puffins were absent from the island.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 9, 2011
European Storks are majestic, they’re graceful and stately and all of the positively connotated adjectives that are applied to birds to which humans have a long and pleasant history rooted deep in our western cultural heritage. In fact, there’s hardly a bird in the world that has such a venerated relationship with us.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 25, 2015
The day before, the day I arrived, was a transport day, and that meant the pack hadn’t been seen in the afternoon. There are a lot of reasons why Painted Wolves are struggling, and many of them are human caused. Like other social animals, his family connections were keeping him alive, as his family was feeding him.
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