10,000 Birds
AUGUST 8, 2012
A new study conducted in Athens, Georgia, by National Geographic and the University of Georgia put cameras on house cats allowed outdoors. Thirty percent of the cats killed wild animals, an average of two kills per week. It’s safer for your cats and for wildlife for your pets to be kept indoors!
10,000 Birds
APRIL 20, 2016
Alexander Rukhaia focuses his efforts on the “ Batumi Bottleneck ,” an Important Bird Area along the coast of the Black Sea in the Ajara region of Georgia. In the end, no matter who goes home with the award (and gets to shake Sir David Attenborough’s hand), wildlife wins big.
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 15, 2014
Sentient people recoil at the idea of leg-hold traps, those medieval–torture devices which cause so much pain and suffering before their victims eventually die, are killed, or (very occasionally) are rescued. My very first rescue was a House Sparrow caught in a glue trap,” says Donna Osburn, a wildlife rehabilitator in Kentucky.
10,000 Birds
MAY 9, 2014
Wildlife rehabilitators constantly receive lost racing pigeons who are starving, riddled with lice, and suffering from coccidia, trichinosis, or worms. I doubt anyone would want to begin their wedded life or celebrate the memory of a loved one by killing one or more gentle, lovely birds, however unintentionally. Blow bubbles, people!
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 31, 2019
I also spent a week in northwestern Costa Rica on a family vacation, a long weekend in Barbados, a week in Georgia, and two week-plus-long trips to visit relatives in southern California. The second trip was in the rain and it killed my camera but fortunately not the memory card as the image above shows. Number 3 – Sage Thrasher.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 20, 2011
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. So we can squawk at the state wildlife departments all we want, but the USFWS has the final say. Now, it’s time to go to the top.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 7, 2015
De Roy is an incredibly accomplished wildlife photographer, writer and conservation advocate with a fascinating personal history; she gives us little glimpses of throughout her essays, and left me wanting to know more. The first section, Life Between Two Worlds by Tui De Roy is the heart of the book. Magenellic Penguin, parent and child. (p.
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