10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 14, 2023
They were barely mentioned in The Voyage of the Beagle and not at all in On the Origin of Species. Basic Books, New York, $30 U.S., Later it was thought that the widely varying beak sizes and types of those phenotypes inspired Darwin’s insights, a la Newton and his apple. Maybe Moss is right, and birds have changed history.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 1, 2014
A good friend of my mother’s back in my hometown of Saugerties, New York, is having a problem. The ravens rip apart their windshield wipers and destroy the rubber seals that keep their cars waterproof. Why are birds of a variety of species attacking cars and what can be done to stop them?
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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 20, 2012
Seven birders, a boat for hire, and a cruise around lower New York Harbor and vicinity looking for good birds. A surprise was a Common Merganser , a bird we don’t see much in New York City and especially not flying over the coast in Brooklyn. A bunch of Harbor Seals of Swinburne Island was a nice consolation though.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 6, 2022
we learn) that are home to coveted boreal species, breeding wood-warblers, and two species of Grouse. Audubon’s Hog Island Audubon Camp attracts birders of all skills levels every summer and Acadia National Park, Monhegan Island, Machias Seal Island, and Scarborough Marsh are nationally known birding hotspots.
Animal Ethics
JANUARY 9, 2008
But most important, they are beginning to starve, because the sea ice they depend on for hunting seals, their main food, is melting at a very rapid rate because of global warming. They are also endangered by a loss of habitat, as energy companies encroach on more and more of their territory for oil and gas operations. 2 editorial pointed out.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 6, 2012
Or, Pygmy leaf-folding frogs, Afrixalus brachycnemis, from Tanzania, tiny climbing frogs who lay their eggs in leaves and then fold the leaves over them for protection, sealing the nest with secretions. A book about all the frogs and toads of the world is an ambitious undertaking. This is not a field guide.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 1, 2020
There are owls in New York City. They are the city’s latest, maybe only, celebrity media sensation, and photographs show crowds of New Yorkers craning their necks up as far as their masks allow, holding phones at arm’s length, using opera glasses and huge binoculars that remind me of the ones my dad used at the racetrack.
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