10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

I truly do hope I am not tiring 10,000 Birds’ readers too much with my obsession with Michoacán’s ongoing drought, the disappearance of Lake Cuitzeo (Mexico’s 2nd largest lake, in normal years), and our own micro-endemic Black-polled Yellowthroat. But obsessed I am. And it brought friends.

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Mexico Investigation Science Experience 225

10,000 Birds

JUNE 16, 2021

Here in the highlands of central Mexico, we can see (rather easily, as I mentioned above) two trogons: the Mountain Trogon , and the Elegant Trogon. But it is probably just as easy for most of you to travel to central Mexico, where the Mountain Trogon and so many other beautiful birds are much more common. Wikipedia has been used.).

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Mexico Indonesia North America Arizona 190

10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2018

He roots the theft in the history of collecting bird skins, in the brief life history of Edwin Rist, in the secretive world of classic fly tying, and in his own efforts to follow up on a police investigation that got the man but not all of the loot. Simon Baron-Cohen, cousin to the comedian. Mostly adult males.

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Collecting Iraq Ostriches Science 104