10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 1, 2013
This is how he ended up living on Nonsuch, an island on which every tree had been felled, all grass eaten by goats, which had formerly been home to a yellow fever hospital and a reform school. Wingate decided that the birds needed Bermuda’s ecology as it was 300 years ago, and he was going to create it for them.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 7, 2012
Rapai reprints an editorial from the 1904 Bulletin of the Michigan Ornithological Club that will remind many birders of more recent discussions on the Internet concerning the publication of owl and bird nest locations, its language only a little bit more civilized! Rapai is clearly fascinated by Leopold’s life, and frankly, so was I.
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 13, 2014
We miss them all: the parrots, the pigeons, the moas and titan-hawks and stilt-owls and myriads of endlessly exotic avifauna we will never ever know again as they were when they graced this Earth. And some of the extinctions were of small animals, like the many dwarf goats and elephants in the Mediterranean. Comebackers. 314 U.S.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 10, 2014
Everyone wants to pick off the most fiercesome night predator here, the Laughing Owl , but we’ll also be out looking for the New Zealand Owlet-nightjar. Laughing Owl. We’ve got a couple of stake outs where we can watch not just for this raptor, the world’s largest, but where moa kills can sometimes be seen too.
10,000 Birds
JULY 4, 2022
Random thought: What if I had died a month ago and never heard anything from The Burning Hell, nor the new Mountain Goats song “Training Montage” … Such sad and depressing thinking. Back to real birds. Many nocturnal mammals and birds such as the Kiwi would likely wholeheartedly agree.
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