10,000 Birds
MAY 25, 2013
We here in New York City (and in much of the northeastern United States) are dealing with a pretty major cold snap for late May, with temperatures last night falling down to 46 degrees Fahrenheit (8 degrees Celsius). So while the rest of my family slept in I nipped out to the park this morning to see how the swallows were doing.
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).
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 20, 2022
. “I am not bad-looking, I am just badly photographed”: A Bay Woodpecker (Fraser’s Hill, Malaysia) using a joke from “Roger Rabbit” The pinkish eyerings of the Brown-capped Pygmy Woodpecker (Tansa, India) make it look as if it is constantly suffering from a hangover. Kind of like a diesel version.
10,000 Birds
MAY 26, 2011
Here in the United States, we’re celebrating Memorial Day and its attending rites of Americana from parades to barbecues. For example, I’m headed down to NYC for a full house of family events, which will alas mean no birding. Where will you be this weekend and will you be birding?
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 29, 2012
While eating lunch with Daisy and her family at a picnic area in Joshua Tree National Park the other day a small chipmunk-looking creature ventured out of the rock formation we were eating next to. The cute little critter was clearly looking for a handout which we did not provide.
Critter News
OCTOBER 6, 2009
Monkey business is big business in the United States, where some people pay up to $5,000 to adopt a monkey of their own, often a capuchin monkey, which can grow up to 22 inches and 9 pounds. These families dress their monkeys, feed them at the dinner table and treat them like any other member of the family. Who suffers?
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 14, 2014
Many Neotropical families and genera have some of their northernmost members here, such as the spinetails ( Rufous-breasted Spinetail ), Tangara tanagers ( Azure-rumped Tanager ), and guans ( Horned Guan ). the species suffering most from deforestation). This is a fascinating area of transition.
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