10,000 Birds
AUGUST 18, 2018
The Weekly Reader had shocked everyone in class with news of Bald Eagles dying – and humans were to blame! Fast forward to the next decade and humans were at it again. southern border; and set regulations to waive environmental laws for building on public lands. The Border Wall. Photo courtesy of © KristaSchlyer.com.
10,000 Birds
MAY 9, 2019
At the same time, at the western bank of the Volga River corpses piled ever higher… or so starts the plot of the Jean-Jacques Annaud’s movie Enemy at the Gates, with Jude Law as young Zaytsev. The panicky human parents are the worst kind. Yet, something was wrong with that picture. Something was very wrong. What is it they actually do?
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 8, 2022
Like humans preferring snack food and alcohol at night, these spoonbills also have diet preferences depending on the time of the day: “The diet of Spoonbills appeared to differ between night and day because their prey exhibited pronounced nocturnal activity” ( source ).
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 4, 2015
Consider this: ninety percent of birds treated at wildlife centers are admitted as a result of human interactions that have nothing to do with “nature.” Our world has changed, and humans have created that change. Wildlife no longer exists in the same way it did before humans came on the scene. The difference seems obvious.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 8, 2014
Can you use a drone to get footage of snowy owls in cornfields? If you have a drone and fly it over a field and it finds a Short-eared Owl that you didn’t know was there and you only saw it after you uploaded your video…does it count on your list? How often is too often for checking out the nest? How close is too close?
10,000 Birds
MAY 7, 2019
Essay #158, “Things Birders Do: Big Years,” starts with the writer’s observation of a Barn Owl and then defines a Big Year, surprisingly celebrating it as opportunities for solitary introspection. It’s spelled this way, all caps, because that is the official name.).
10,000 Birds
JUNE 23, 2016
By Greek law enforcement officers, I had already been taken for a spy. One threatened European Turtle-Dove is in front of us, taking flight as we go further along the ridge towards the higher hill (it is in human nature, I guess – does anyone ever chooses to go for the lower hill?). Birders are utterly suspicious characters.
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