10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2014

One of the interesting things about web cams is that as they foster familiarity, they also favor the familiar human urge to impose narrative. Recently I started working with Dunrovin Ranch, a local guest ranch, on their web project Days at Dunrovin. We’ll see how it goes.

Montana 186

Montana Eggs Horses Morals 186

10,000 Birds

MARCH 23, 2012

Once upon a time, people and especially children felt free to interact with wild birds in any way that would satisfy their curiousity — watching and learning, yes, but also harassing and chasing, collecting eggs and nests, stealing nestlings as “pets”, and killing birds for amateur taxidermy efforts.

Montana 164

Montana Geese Blackbirds Canada 164

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

In each instance they start with a striking anecdote — my particular favorite took place on the University of Montana campus, where in 1964 an American Crow learned to call and taunt stray dogs into causing perhaps the most adorable college riots of the decade.

Humane 140

Humane Emotional Stray Dog Science 140

10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2016

Dragan continues to be teacher’s pet simply by sharing as he goes. Others, by their own admission, are Luddites and believe that the pinnacle of human technological achievement was reached on the day that man first bound a notebook in moleskin. Ruddy Quail-Dove – Geotrygon montana. It simple Beats, really it is.

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2016 Sanctuary Ghana Australia 100