10,000 Birds
JUNE 9, 2013
” Alan Tilmouth reported in these pages a few months ago that due to extreme weather conditions, Atlantic Puffins and other seabirds were washing up on the shores of Great Britain. That is, warmer oceans are changing fish populations, with butterfish beginning to supplant the herring that Puffins usually feed their young.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
One exception is Magdalena Heinroth, a German ornithologist who, with her husband Oscar, raised and studied thousands of birds in her apartment in pre-World War II Berlin.
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 5, 2018
Instantly falling in love with Fijalkowska’s account, I went gah-gah for her patterns of a cockatiel, a puffin, a robin, and so much more. Browsing Instagram’s #knitting hashtag one day, I came across a very, very realistic rendition of a snipe, perfectly stitched in brown and tan and sitting on a pumpkin.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 22, 2011
Tufted Puffin. “My biggest regret in life was raising my binoculars to observe this monstrosity of a bird” – Ethel M. Can Mr. X really tell a Tufted Puffin from a Rhinocerous Auklet ? In the rare instances I have been seasick, I have more than once pondered that death would be preferable. South Polar Skua.
10,000 Birds
JULY 7, 2020
The emphasis is on everyday birds seen in North America, though some of the more exotic and local species are thrown in for the color and romance of it all–Atlantic Puffin, Roseate Spoonbill, the poor extinct Heath Hen. Some of the chapters focus on a specific bird, most are about bird families like hawks, tanagers, wrens, etc.,
10,000 Birds
JULY 18, 2012
The auks, which range from puffins to guillemots all the way to the tiny auklets and murrelets, are typical for seabirds, long lived with tiny clutches of one or two eggs. Unique among the auks, indeed among seabirds, they will attempt to double brood, to lay another clutch after successfully raising the first chick. So why do it?
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