10,000 Birds
JUNE 3, 2014
Lost Animals is a book about what was lost and witnesses to the loss—how the bird or mammal was viewed, often for the last time, through the lens of a camera. And so, Fuller embarked on a new initiative—locating and researching photographs of lost birds and, expanding his scope, of mammals. more than there really was to see!” (p.
10,000 Birds
JULY 23, 2014
There are the endemics, which are odd in their own way, and then there introduced species, which are so varied in their type and origin that you get the feeling you’ve arrived at the aftermath of a small zoo that escaped. There were no mammals, little game, and not many birds either. In many ways, that is exactly what happened.
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 13, 2014
Clapper Rails are common but rarely seen birds across the islands and on my own island are common in a range of habitats that may surprise readers used to seeing them in wetlands in North America. Photo copyright The Smithsonian’s National Zoo, taken from the Guam Rail page. . Guam Rail Gallirallus owstoni.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 9, 2014
We have photographs and newspaper obituaries of Martha, the last living Passenger Pigeon, who died after a lifetime in captivity, mostly in the Cincinnati Zoo. We have a lot of source material. What is amazing is that each of these three books is very different in content and tone. journey, written up in diary format.
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