10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

There are two things you need to know about A Field Guide to the Wildlife of South Georgia , edited by Robert Burton and John Croxall, and produced by the South Georgia Heritage Trust. First, if you are, like me, geographically challenged, then you need to know that this is not about Georgia, the U.S.

Georgia 172

Georgia Penguins Wildlife Whales 172

10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2021

They will list ten or twenty or fifty titles, and will include, inevitably, Hunter Biden’s autobiography, and Volume 12 of Barack Obama’s, and other such works. But human beings are not uniformly evil. In six or seven months, the “best books of the year” features will come out in the important print and web publications.

West Virginia 194

West Virginia Rats Albatross Georgia 194

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

So, one might surmise, it’s OK if they get shot by hunters thinking they’re sandhill cranes? Over the winter, the universe lost four whooping cranes to what appears to be recreational shooting: three gunned down together in Georgia on December 30, 2010, and another in Alabama on January 28, 2011. Do all hunters realize that?

2011 239

2011 Hunting Kentucky Hunters 239