10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2020

It didn’t occur to me till I started reading The Falcon Thief: A True Tale of Adventure, Treachery, and the Hunt for the Perfect Bird that there was also a possible threat to the eagle herself: poachers, who steal raptor eggs and chicks. Hammer paints a fine journalistic picture of how falcons are bred, trained, and interbred for speed.

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Falcons United Kingdom Zimbabwe Eggs 219

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

Ackerman understands how to set a scene, fill it with charismatic real-life characters, and top it off with magic–the hoot of a distant Great Gray Owl, a Burrowing Owl evading capture, an old barn sheltering young Barn Owls, a tree full of Long-eared Owls in the middle of a small town in northern Serbia. They are also hunted.

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Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 220

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2013

To assess their populations, draw their blood, test them for lead, and discover what kind of impact feeding on gut piles might have on these iconic raptors, particularly the young ones, as hunting season begins in Montana. To gain knowledge of migration routes, wintering sites, survival rates. To understand, and thus to protect.

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Eagles Tethering Science Wounded 179

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Sergio and I continue to a sloth shelter, where, waiting for the tour, I sit in a café. The lodge is self-sustainable, relaying on solar panels, producing some of the foods and buying the rest locally, hiring and training local villagers, supporting the local village school, etc. The lodge itself lies at 80 m / 260 ft a.s.l.,

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Costa Rica Reptiles Farming Mississippi 145