10,000 Birds
AUGUST 13, 2014
Sea World San Diego just welcomed the world’s first “test-tube” penguin. And the odd: If you’re in Silver City, NM, stop in for a dish of Yellow-billed Cuckoo Gelato at Alotta Gelato, which just won the “Birds Mean Business” award from local Audubon and conservation groups. Still craving more penguin news?
10,000 Birds
APRIL 15, 2014
So when Nutmeg Mannikin was finally, at long last, added to the ABA list last summer, it was a foregone conclusion that those birders at the ABA’s San Diego rally, of which I was one, would need to make a trip out of our way to get it. They’re not supposed to be here. We shouldn’t want them here.
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 20, 2013
Handing out T-shirts at the registration desk with a summer intern from the Field Museum (one of the conference’s sponsoring groups) gave me a good feel for who was around and what ornithologists are like. Exhibitors ranged from book publishers to purveyors of telemetry equipment to local bird and wildlife groups.
4 The Love Of Animals
MAY 8, 2011
Half a decade ago, in a little mountain town about 60 miles northeast of San Diego, a feral kitten dragged his front left leg uselessly. Over the past six years, Henry has received almost 50,000 letters from humans and critters. Any animal group in the world can use these materials as fundraising tools. I’m Here too!”
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 22, 2013
For example, take the Mississippi Kite (above), photographed at the Dairy Mart Ponds in Tijuana River Valley, between San Diego and the Mexican border. Email lists, blogs, websites, forums, Facebook groups, and of course eBird (see below) has completely revolutionized the way birders get their business handled.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 11, 2011
Other birds with webbed feet, including ducks and geese, have only three webbed toes; the hallux (which in birds is usually the “hind toe&# and in humans, the “big toe&# ) is free. For all of recorded history, humans have classified other living things by their physical characteristics. He could not say the same today.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 9, 2020
I continue to hope that history will someday repeat itself with the House Wren group. I have never seen a “Brown-throated ” House Wren near human settlements. This Western Grebe was from just north of San Diego. While this Black-backed Oriole is a Mexican endemic. But, so far, the split has not occurred.
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