10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 17, 2012

When songbirds endeavor to head hundreds or thousands of miles south they are risking everything in order to find a place that they can winter and hopefully survive in order to head back north and breed. American Crow carrying a road-killed bird Some birds die anonymously on their long trek – unmourned, unloved, and unknown.

Feral Cats 191

Feral Cats Cats Killing North America 191

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Photographs are powerful instruments in sharing the value of species’ existence and increasing the amount of humans who value species such as Snowy Owls. It is estimated that Snowy Owl populations in North America have declined by 52% since the 1960s (Berlanga et al. In The Birds of North America (P. Kerlinger, P.,

Ethics 154

Ethics Owls New York North America 154

10,000 Birds

MAY 16, 2018

I am a human being, so I am entitled to, and I do, say that the starling is an ugly bird. Shakespeare was, supposedly , the reason starlings, house sparrows, and other non-native birds were introduced to North America. Prum, Doubleday). Ten thousand years ago, Thomas notes, house sparrows were unknown in Britain.

Humane 105

Humane Species North America Sparrows 105