10,000 Birds
MARCH 24, 2021
On the way, I pass through a wonderful mixed habitat with lots of native trees that keep fruit-eating birds happy, and flowers that attract all of our region’s hummingbird species. We humans need protection from thorns, while for birds, thorns often provide protection. When I say “thorn forest”, I really mean it.
10,000 Birds
MAY 17, 2020
To humans, birdsong is akin to Joycean language, isn’t it? Photographers: Wil Hershberger (American woodcock, Eastern whip-poor-will); Marie Read (Virginia rail, Northern flicker); Robert Royse (Canyon wren, Wilson’s snipe). It’s not a field guide, as such. Drawing of the avian syrinx by Amanda Morgan Riley. __.
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 9, 2013
The general public is out and about, birds and animals are raising their young, and human/wildlife interaction is at its peak. I don’t want to be too hasty in my response,” wrote Gay in Virginia. Why is there no state or federal money available to care for federally protected species? Summer is high season. Creative muscle. “I
10,000 Birds
MARCH 4, 2017
In keeping with high diversity in other aspects of the avian kingdom, including falcons and excluding owls, this small country has a raptor list that tops fifty species. It’s a fine selection of birds for a place the same size as West Virginia but it also comes with a catch commonly found in tropical forest ecosystems.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 6, 2019
The brewery names each of its beers after endangered species of California’s Central Coast, including the California Gnatcatcher ( Polioptila californica ) and Scripp’s Murrelet ( Synthliboramphus scrippsi ). The post Raimat Saira Albariño (2017) appeared first on 10,000 Birds.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 7, 2019
But history doesn’t seem to have recorded which species of bird first dared to land on an electrical wire. Birds may have taken to these artificial perches like ducks to water, but human reactions to the newfangled poles and wires were hardly as appreciative, especially in the early day. As Daniel L. Yet they are ours.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 4, 2019
Their populations, plus those of other species that ‘wore’ the coveted long, colorful feathers used for women’s fashionable hats, were being dangerously depleted by hunters intent on feeding the millinery industry. Only–Virginia Woolf was not in Surrey on December 14th, 1918.
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