10,000 Birds
JANUARY 27, 2015
There are hordes of fowl here (fowl of the water) in winter, with geese having the most prominent presence. There is no shortage of Snow Geese, and no shortage of birds that feel right at home hanging out just a stone’s throw from you at the viewing platform.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 21, 2015
There’s nothing like a birdy, bird-filled lunch and I’m not talking about some lemon domesticated jungle fowl tagine either (although that is damn good too!). If coming from the La Selva area, go 13 to 14 kilometers south on the main road to Guapiles and watch for the small restaurant at a wide turn-off on the right.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 16, 2013
“If you don’t feed me right way, I’m taking off this wing and your reproductive success is done!” Maybe it is endemic to domestic fowl and is being spread among those birds in markets, but perhaps it is in wild birds, most likely waterfowl, instead or as well. ” they seemed to be saying.
10,000 Birds
JULY 3, 2020
Of course, there may very well have been fowl-inspired weathervanes in ancient Greece and Rome. A few of my own observations of birds perching on Albany, New York’s weathervanes (clockwise from the upper right): A pair of Fish Crows ( Corvus ossifragus ) perched on a “fish”vane (what else?)
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 20, 2012
They became known as “Turkie Fowl” (spelling varies) because they were coming from the general direction of Turkey. The “Fowl” was dropped and the term “Turkey” was applied to other large Galliformes that were encountered in the New World. This is the time of year that we rightfully contemplate the noble Turkey.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 14, 2018
Dad-level bird jokes are right at home at Christmas Bird Count compilation dinners. Over time, the word “decoy” has lost its fowling connotations and has come to mean any kind of trick or fakery. It’s also the name of a line of wines produced by Duckhorn Vineyards of St. Helena in California’s Napa Valley.
Animal Ethics
MARCH 3, 2008
The interests in nourishment and in gustatory pleasure lead man to kill and eat cattle, fish, and fowl. This cuts down on the long-range satisfactions of the cattle, the fish, and the fowl. Man commits many wrongs against the food animals, but he is usually right, from his own point of view, in doing so.
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