10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

It had been a long time since I’d seen any warblers besides Yellow and Nashville ; it had been a long time since I’d seen any Northern Cardinals or Blue Jays , period. It had been a long time since I birded Central Park. When you’re actually putting up with it, it is just very frustrating.

Montana 166

Montana New York City New York Nashville 166

10,000 Birds

JUNE 10, 2020

A Nashville Warbler , on the jacaranda tree. Organic gardening is a must; those bugs you are spraying could be bird food. And when I’m lucky enough to have a Golden-fronted Woodpecker visit the garden, I know that, for some reason, it will be on the jacaranda tree. Plus, it’s my other freebie!

Birds 158

Birds Woodpeckers Madagascar Nashville 158

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Birds that had been banded in Nashville, Tennessee. Some organizations have even built nesting and roosting towers, artificial chimneys that serve as a site for the swifts in lieu of residential dwellings. And thus, the wintering grounds of the Chimney Swift were discovered. It’s an exotic story for such a familiar bird.

North Carolina 171

North Carolina Nashville South America Tennessee 171

Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 11, 2008

At the yearly Meat Marketing conference this summer in Nashville, the industry representatives seemed most worried about negative press concerning animal welfare; the words “global warming” were never even uttered. A carnivore is an organism that, by nature, feeds only on animal flesh. This is stupid.

New York Times 40

New York Times New York Meat Animal Welfare 40

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

The book is organized logically by seasonality. The book offers numerous facts about many species, findings of hundreds of research projects, notes on trends and exceptions from the norm, but little that captures the poetry of winter bird behavior or ignites a passion for change.

Research 175

Research Birds Hoarding Sweden 175

10,000 Birds

MAY 6, 2014

How do you organize species, knowing that beginning birders are apt to observe birds by color first and might be confused and intimidated by a taxonomic organization? Species are organized in American Ornithologists’ Union taxonomic order.

New Jersey 249

New Jersey Birds 2014 Species 249

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Costa Rican birders are clearly up to the task, because the Annual Arenal Bird Count stood out as one of the best organized and attended bird counts I’ve ever seen. The festivities kicked off with a pre-count presentation led by organizers Diego and Juan Diego. Corey and I held our own.

2014 215

2014 Costa Rica Birds Groups 215