10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 9, 2014
But sometimes, what’s best for the birds and what’s best for the humans collide. Meanwhile, on the opposite coast, Double-crested Cormorants are interfering with plans to tear down the old Bay Bridge between Oakland and San Francisco. In the United States, a few of those conundrums are making news.
Critter News
NOVEMBER 16, 2008
From the website : Just after sunrise on Halloween, a sole trick or treater descended on the home of University of California-San Francisco primate vivisector Stephen Lisberger. As Stephen and his wife Chieko slept in San Francisco, tubes of superglue were used to fill his front door locks.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 29, 2018
And hey, speaking of empire – is there any more beautiful clap-back to European colonization than the fact that various species of psittacine, exploited and stolen and in so many cases extirpated by eager collectors, have now become noisily acclimatized free-flying life forms in the parks of Brooklyn and San Francisco and especially London?
10,000 Birds
JULY 5, 2017
We had been at sea for 5 days and 5 nights, over 100 miles off shore, sailing non-stop from the USA-Canada border to San Francisco. While I have only seen this behavior a couple of times, the night herons do share at similar response with humans, with regard to a very hot day.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 18, 2011
(Check out Part 1 here) The city can be a tough place to make a living but San Francisco offers raptors a number of parks, small and large, for them to thrive in. A lot of nature photographers try to exclude human made elements but I think the porta potty kind of makes the photo.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 26, 2012
The water this Northern Pintail is in has human poo in it, which completely ruins the experience of seeing this bird. The first place I started birding a lot was a sewage treatment plant…I still equate the smell of human waste with great birds. Pine Lake Park, San Francisco, CA. Oh wait, it doesn’t.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 2, 2015
The vast majority of you reading this accept it is happening, and for the time being it is caused by humans. In San Francisco, no rain fell in the month of January, which is bizarre and ridiculous, in a sad way. Climate Change. Let’s hope that we never get to this point.
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