10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 14, 2023
Now, there are a few obvious uses of bird names that I really needn’t cover, like our ambivalence towards the house sparrow. Its nickname “Spatz” is one of our most common terms of endearment, yet “Dreckspatz” translates to dirt sparrow and describes a person with questionable body hygiene.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 11, 2014
This past weekend I headed out to eastern North Carolina with a group of friends to try our hand at a Rarity Roundup. Our little group set out to remedy that, by focusing on the southern Albermarle peninsula and the areas around Beaufort and Pamlico counties. Swamp Sparrows are abundant winter residents in eastern NC.
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 11, 2018
Thanks mostly to David Lindo, The Urban Birder, there are a few British bird groups touring the country every year now, even the BBC came to film the world famous Long-eared Owl gathering in the town of Kikinda with more than 700 birds in some winters. In some years, Spanish Sparrows were reported breeding inside White Storks nests in Sakule.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 25, 2016
First, there is a large and rabid — well, enthusiastic — cat lobby, including many people who support colonies of feral cats with food and otherwise, such as the large nonprofit group, Alley Cat Allies. And keeping cats, natural hunters, indoors is, as a matter of biology and of common sense, not the healthiest state for them.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 14, 2011
Nationwide, wildlife watchers now outspend hunters 6 to 1. Giving a few hundred hunters something else to shoot, in my opinion, cannot be worth the blowback from tens of thousands of people who are willing to travel and spend just to watch the birds fly over. Isn’t that neat?
10,000 Birds
MARCH 20, 2011
So, one might surmise, it’s OK if they get shot by hunters thinking they’re sandhill cranes? What could motivate gunmen (I cannot call them hunters) in two states to deliberately kill North America’s tallest and most critically endangered bird? Do all hunters realize that? It gives one to wonder why this designation was made.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 14, 2011
This is the very best time to be in the desert with the sounds of Black-throated Sparrows, Curve-billed Thrashers and Cactus Wren permeating the still air. There is no wind and the habitat is perfect for cottontail rabbits and the much larger jackrabbits (actually hares), the preferred quarry of this group of three birds.
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