10,000 Birds

MAY 30, 2019

Done properly, a young hawk is curtailed in a growing compulsion to fly greater distances and hunt for herself by a process sometimes called “manning.” ” Cade was later to comment, “1951 was when I first saw the high-flying style of hunting performed by the wilderness-inhabiting Peregrines of Alaska.”

Falcons 171

Falcons California Condor Alaska Texas 171

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2020

Here are three recent titles, one for the parents of very young children, one for primary school children and their parents, and one for residents of a specific geographic area–Los Angeles County. Wild LA: Explore the Amazing Nature in and Around Los Angeles. Like I Love Birds!,

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Los Angeles 2019 Birds 2014 262

Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Its currency is ideas, and though it is those who act—those who write letters, circulate petitions, demonstrate, lobby, disrupt a fox hunt, refuse to dissect an animal or to use one in "practice surgery," or are active in other ways—though these are the persons who make a mark on a day-to-day basis, history shows that ideas do make a difference.

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Animal Rights Movement Animal Rights Rights Los Angeles 40

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

My overnight flight from Los Angeles (an empty Air Pacific flight with lots of space to sleep and plenty of champagne flowing) had left me cheerful and ready to get on my next flight to Kadavu, but a cyclonic storm to the south meant that I had to spend a day in Nadi before I could head out.

Fiji 166

Fiji Solomon Islands Parrots Los Angeles 166

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2011

Gareth Hazell Mar 4th, 2011 at 5:11 pm I’ll be on the hunt for Melodius Larks in the neighborhood and going to the Walter Sisulu Botanical Gardens for another look at the Grey Wagtail!! We, along the coast in Los Angeles County, have a FY Harris’s Sparrow here now for about a week. Really nice!

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2011 Los Angeles Deer Birds 145

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

They quote Yascha Mounk: “At its best, it [nationalism] can inspire a white Christian living in rural Tennessee to feel special concern for a Hispanic atheist living in Los Angeles—and vice versa.” The only explanation I have for this unequal treatment is that it must be a witch hunt.

Los Angeles 176

Los Angeles Birds Woodpeckers Owls 176

10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2013

Let’s face it, you can examine a field guide ad infinitum in the comfort of your living room, or even your backyard, and it won’t give you a clue how helpful it will be when you’re facing a sea of strange western gulls on the sands of Ballona beach, outside Los Angeles. Every one of these field guides is excellent.

Birds 152

Birds North America Groups Falcons 152