10,000 Birds
MAY 13, 2022
For once, eBird gives a good description of the Asian Glossy Starling, calling it a “Fierce-looking, large songbird” As are humans, this species is fairly urbanized – it “sometimes enters urban areas to roost, e.g. in Singapore” (HBW). “Odd, me?”
10,000 Birds
JUNE 9, 2021
You can’t say the same about migration: you can’t say that every book about birds is necessarily about migration, for the simple reason that only about 4,000 bird species migrate (with some 1,800 of those traveling long distances). (Well, purely physical attributes play a part, too: they’re pretty good looking.).
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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 14, 2013
Based on their physical attributes and lifestyle, falcons enjoyed a very long run as a founding member of the order Falconiformes, along with the rest of the diurnal raptor-y type birds like vultures and eagles and hawks and hawk-eagles. What is a falcon, really? There was a time we thought we knew. Laughing Falcon, photo by Renato Espinosa.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 3, 2019
It would be uber cool to lay eyes on a rare lifer, on species that only seem to live on the pages of a field guide but isn’t that somewhat discriminatory? And why spend time only looking for one or two species when those hours could be used to put binos focused on a few dozen? Aren’t all birds worth watching?
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 5, 2015
The status of its preferred wetlands throughout the year dictates movements that often results in a nomadic lifestyle. The Andean Flamingo is now protected under the Endangered Species Act of 1973. Because the Andean Flamingo’s recent addition to the endangered species list, there have been few implemented plans to protect it.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 6, 2015
Even sparrows, if you choose the right species and play your cards right, can be elevated to ‘cute’ status. And what about lifestyle? Owls and eagles and ducks and hummingbirds and parrots and woodpeckers are all things that a regular nonbirding joe or jane can, with time and a few color photographs, see the appeal of.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 21, 2019
Whether their authors are scrutinizing this pink wine’s recent rise as a millennial obsession in clickbait lifestyle pieces, lamenting its fate as the perennial victim of wine snob invective, or endeavoring to discredit the many myths that surround this underappreciated style, come June, it’s rosés, rosés, all the way.
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