10,000 Birds
APRIL 4, 2018
This weeks posting finds me north of the Whananaki area, which is north of Auckland, New Zealand. We are spending some time here on my wife’s family property right on the water. Unfortunately, there have been no new birds that I can check off my “Wish List” but if you have to hang out in a place, this is pretty awesome.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 12, 2011
Since New Zealand is currently consumed by rugby fever and we haven’t the time to indulge in anything so tedious as birdwatching, I thought I’d dive back under the sea to introduce one of New Zealand’s most iconic aquatic organisms, the Australasian Snapper ( Pagrus auratus ).
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 9, 2021
And, in a nice irony, an example par excellence of the law of unintended consequences: the Redhead, a diving duck, has an aversion to wind turbines, and will change its feeding areas to avoid them. “Scientists fear that this may cause them to lose condition over winter and thus damage their breeding prospects.”
10,000 Birds
JULY 4, 2018
New Zealand had been good, Australia was incredible, and South Africa was almost life altering. This leg of the trip was for the most part all about my father-in-law. That does not mean that we can’t make a stop or two along the way, right? After leaving Africa, I was fearing a real let down in my birding.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 21, 2016
“Below the 40th latitude there is no law; below the 50th no god; below the 60th no common sense and below the 70th no intelligence whatsoever.” (“Antarctica” by Kim Stanley Robinson, 1998). Right: Robert McCormick, by Stephen Pearce. Enough History – Back to the Future.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 11, 2014
Outside the truly ancient islands that are fragments of sunken continents; New Zealand, Fiji, New Caledonia and the like, the Islands of the Pacific are, geologically, ephemeral things. Islands are not places where lineages go to thrive and spawn great new lineages of their own. What a horror! What a disaster!
Animal Ethics
JULY 5, 2007
No wonder rBGH has been banned in Europe, Canada, Japan, Australia and New Zealand. Consumers are right to be wary; rBGH threatens to undermine the safety of nature’s most perfect food. Dr. Miller’s argument distracts from the real concerns over rBGH. As a society, we can make sensible choices to promote sustainable agriculture.
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