10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2020

The recommendations will sound familiar to any birder or naturalist who wants to protect and improve her local patch: Immediately shut down cat feeding stations. This is a project that clearly spanned decades. It’s a very mixed chapter. Another big year memoir? I love reading all of the above.

New York City 149

New York City New York Birds Breeding 149

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2021

The ornithologist James Bond (1900-1989), affiliated with the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia for more than six decades, wrote in 1928 that “there is still a good deal of illicit gunning going on on these islands, which, if not stopped, will ultimately result in the extermination of the parrots. It would seem, therefore, that A.

Parrots 337

Parrots Dominica Philadelphia illegal 337

10,000 Birds

JULY 10, 2012

More than 150 bird species are known to have become extinct over the past 500 years, and many more are estimated to have been driven to extinction before they became known to science. This colony outlived dozens of others as it was protected by the local religious belief that the ibises migrated each year to guide Hajj pilgrims to Mecca.

Endangered Species 189

Endangered Species Species Morocco South Africa 189