10,000 Birds
JULY 21, 2018
As we enter the second century of protecting, preserving, and respecting our wild spaces, certainly no one would actually consider undoing, reversing, and exploiting our national parks, forests, and monuments. In an area known for ‘the cleanest water in the world,’ 234,000 acres were sheltered from mining exploration…until now.
10,000 Birds
MAY 3, 2022
It stops those thousands of migrating birds flying across the Gulf of Mexico and directs them right onto the trees, fields, sanctuaries, beaches along the Bolivar Peninsula, where they hopefully find food and fresh water. Corps of Engineers to protect Galveston Bay at the end of the 19th-century. You just need to know where to look.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 7, 2017
The basic requirements for survival, food, shelter and water never seem to be in surplus. The cactus are not the only things down here that are protected in this manner. When it comes to a one stop shopping for food and shelter, no other plant is as widely used as the Cardon Cactus family.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 14, 2016
While many trees are being defoliated or knocked down, the source of roosting ands protection has to become quite limited. This little Male Costa’s Hummingbird took shelter in a potted bougainvillea, on the patio of a nearby condo. While it appears quite miserable, it did survive the night and was seen several times the next day.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
Although, technically, I mostly felt your pain… for the past four months, while about a dozen beautiful migratory Wood Warblers were nowhere to be found here in central Mexico. We are in the middle of our monsoon season, and I had to repeatedly find shelter from brief midday showers. What I feel right now is joy at their return.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 6, 2012
Now they mock the march of our dead by flinging contemptuous coins at their feet… We are shadows of tender fury; our dark wings will cover the sky again, and their protective cloak will shelter the dispossessed and the good men and women who understand that justice and peace go hand in hand.
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