10,000 Birds
JULY 5, 2015
The Gulf Stream lies between 20-40 miles off the North Carolina coast, and to the unpracticed eye it looks scarcely different that the expanse of blue water it courses through. These three aspects combine to produce one of the most productive spots in the North Atlantic, a place where birds and fish and marine mammals congregate.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 3, 2021
There was a time when I thought each bird species had its own individual song. Then I found out that there was this vocalization called a ‘call,’ so I thought each bird species had its own individual song (but just the males) and individual call. There is so much here! How do they know?
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 3, 2012
There’s a little hint of white in the malar and throat too, which would seem to be a problem for the species Black- chinned Sparrow. The bird was immediately apparent to be as such largely because a similar bird has been visiting a feeder, and well-photographed, in Henderson County in western North Carolina for the last three winters.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 30, 2014
There’s a new proposal before the American Ornithologists’ Union’s North American Classification Committee to split Painted Bunting into two species (yay! — maybe, more later) and to name the new species “Eastern Painted Bunting” and “Western Painted Bunting” (no!).
10,000 Birds
JULY 10, 2012
Every part of the world has it’s suite of parking lot staples, those urbanish species that seem to prefer to linger about humanity subsisting in no small amount to the magnanimity, or more likely the laziness, of humankind. Here in the non-Floridian Southeast we have sparrows and starlings and pigeons.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 24, 2011
— Answer, the cloacal kiss, a term for copulation in many bird species. Cloacal Kiss is the name of a “metal, grindcore, experimental&# musical group from North Carolina. Human congenital disorder. — Answer, this is Sirenomelia, or Mermaid Syndrome, where a human is born with legs fused together.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 19, 2013
Then he gave a couple of alternative solutions to the feral cat problem: There are two effective, humane alternatives to the cat hell of TNR. Then he gave a couple of alternative solutions to the feral cat problem: There are two effective, humane alternatives to the cat hell of TNR. Pretty standard. The other is trap and euthanize.
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