10,000 Birds
JANUARY 7, 2020
Everyone is looking back on their best birds of 2019, so I thought it would be a good idea to look at a book that looks back a little further: Urban Ornithology: 150 Years of Birds in New York City , by P. Buckley, Walter Sedwitz, William J. Norse, and John Kieran. “Wait! ” you’re probably saying.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 28, 2015
It’s a rough world for people who appreciate them, rougher still for those who spend time and money trying to protect them, roughest of all for those who take in the injured and orphaned and try to save them. The month before we lost him to bone cancer at age eleven, I was in New York City and met a British man.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 5, 2022
At the same time, or ideally shortly thereafter, the science will convince and stimulate popular writings to reach a broad audience, one that eventually enlist the general public to demand reasonable, justifiable changes that will benefit human society, which is part and interdependent with nature. (p. Did the model work?
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 18, 2012
I remember taking an advanced seminar in plant-animal interaction, in preparation for my own study of human-plant interactions. European Starling in New York City trying to bum a cigarette (photo by Corey, from HERE ) But I digress. Aromatic plants in bird nests as a protection against blood-sucking flying insects?
10,000 Birds
JULY 1, 2014
Meanwhile, forts were built to protect the island from invaders, war broke out between Spain and the United States, and the island became a U.S. They start out in New York City, climbing a skyscraper to see a Peregrine Falcon, the world’s fastest-moving bird, diving at almost 200 miles an hour after a pigeon.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 4, 2019
Fitting, since New York City and London were the centers of the millinery trade. Both were led by strong, intelligent women who needed to develop new ways of making their points with the public and the government; both movements were lynchpins in developing today’s values of human rights and environmental conservation.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 6, 2021
I was especially interested in “To Hide From God,” the chapter on songbird slaughter and protection in Cyprus. Has it really been 21 years (almost) from the publication of Jonathan Franzen’s New Yorker article, “ Emptying the Skies ,” six years since the documentary with the same name?
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