10,000 Birds

AUGUST 21, 2017

While in Belize for my family vacation one of the birds I most wanted to see was a Jabiru. That means that it is pretty heavily trafficked by a wide variety of vehicles that are larger than a golf cart, including dump trucks and buses. Watching a Jabiru was very exciting for me but the family soon had enough. ” Oops.

Belize 102

Belize Trafficking Family Turkey 102

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2020

In what has become the modern-day traditional method of organization, species are listed and described on the left-hand page and illustrative plates are on the right. Each species is numbered, with the numbers referring to the illustrations on the right. This unfortunately happens with the large Tanager (Thraupidae) family here.

Bolivia 172

Bolivia Birds Brazil Switzerland 172

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2021

If you had your choice of one bird family to pursue, to seek out and observe and photograph and kvell over, which one would you choose? A passion for one bird family is also very useful. He sat…his crown giving searing shafts of violet as the light caught the feathers at just the right angle.

Costa Rica 264

Costa Rica Brazil Ecuador Bolivia 264

10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2020

The same weakness is found in The Feather Thief (2018), a book similarly about an obsessive thief with flexible boundaries of right and wrong. He interviews breeders about rumors of raptor trafficking and egg smuggling, activities that have supposedly been stopped. And, it’s here where that story ends.

Falcons 208

Falcons United Kingdom Zimbabwe Eggs 208

Animal Person

DECEMBER 2, 2009

To Kristof's credit, he immediately mentions a story included in "Half the Sky" about a woman who was given fertilizer for her potato crop, which flourished and was so lucrative that she became the center of power in her family because she had the money. It was because of her that her husband could get medical care when he fell ill.

Cows 100

Cows Vegan Trafficking Transported 100