10,000 Birds
MARCH 14, 2022
I learned of the trip right as it had been delayed and made a vow that I would be on that ship. It has had very few humans walk its soil and who have had little impact to this otherwise pristine nature. Erik overheard a few waiters joke about the birders “…they keep going left, then right, left, then right.”
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 20, 2011
Long ago I preached the idea that rapid climate change was more important (in a negaive way) than large climate change, and suggested that the Holocene was different from earlier time periods (and thus, for instance, humans invented agriculture and large areas of forest developed, etc.) Penguin: Is their goose cooked?
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 18, 2013
There are three things that will go wrong: 1) The inland zones that would become the new wetlands are already, in many cases, occupied by human-built things that will severely interfere with this process. Also, these human-occupied area are probably full of toxins and other impediments to normal use by wildlife. And penguins.
10,000 Birds
JULY 10, 2012
Rueppell’s (facing left) and White-backed (three birds facing right) Vultures have worryingly leapt two categories from Near-Threatened to Endangered. An adult (left) and subadult (right) White-backed Vulture with full crops after feeding on the remains of a Lion kill, Ndutu, Tanzania by Adam Riley.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
They may be about bird eggs ( The Most Perfect Thing: The Inside (and Outside) of a Bird’s Egg , 2016), or a 17th-century ornithologist ( Virtuoso by Nature: The Scientific Worlds of Francis Willughby, 2016), or How Bullfinches learn songs from humans ( The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology. Princeton Univ.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 12, 2019
A couple of the songs are sung, not from the human point of view, but from the bird’s – or maybe from both at the same time, as with “Bald Eagle.” Yellow-headed Blackbird, you’re an easy bird to miss. And you were my nemesis. But now you’re mine. (It It take guts to rhyme “miss” and “nemesis” – but it works!).
10,000 Birds
JUNE 6, 2023
I knew he was also a former Marvel comic book writer and editor, but did not know that he also, unsurprisingly, had a history of involvement in LGBTQ and Black rights advocacy. A trip to Nepal with a non-birding boyfriend, with the goal of climbing the Himalaya to the foot of Mt. Nah, sadly, probably not.
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