10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

Of the Central Flyway states, Nebraska alone holds out in protecting the cranes, having proven by its longstanding Festival of the Cranes in Kearney that a crane is worth infinitely more alive and purring in the sky with its family than thudding, broken and bleeding, into a cornfield. It is OK for people to like to hunt.

2011 251

2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 251

10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2017

From 20 February through 25 February I was on a family-and-friends vacation on New Providence in the Bahamas. But this post isn’t about water slides, $15 rum drinks, the horrors of tourist traps, or the morality of pocketing bread from the breakfast buffet for later. Later in the year Gray Kingbirds would make that list as well.

Bahamas 103

Bahamas Puerto Rico Birds Louisiana 103

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Ever the moral perfectionist, Franklin argued that the turkey was a much more honorable and determined fowl, and suggested the bird – as an “original Native of America” – would make a decidedly more fitting avian mascot for the United States (seemingly implying – incorrectly – that the Bald Eagle is not an indigenous New World species).

2017 152

2017 Bald Eagle United States Turkey 152