10,000 Birds
JULY 10, 2021
All of a sudden, you have a superpower where you can scan and find more birds, where warblers become identifiable, veritable jewels, where you feel transported closer to the bird. A Northern Cardinal really does have an orange-red bill and the female ends up being much more subtly beautiful colors than expected.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
Somehow, a spoon as a bill may not be the ideal tool for this task. In these rural areas, public transportation is still mostly based on rather old-fashioned modes. Once the bird takes up a different position, it gets more interesting. I am not quite sure whether the Spoon-billed Sandpiper actually tried to eat this shrimp.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 2, 2024
Transported by the falcons’ inimitable aerial prowess, I could almost feel the wind stream behind me, feel every subtle movement of wing or tail that determined my trajectory, my speed, my effortless engagement with the wind. Becoming one with the sky, the peregrines flew with ineffable grace, dazzling speed, and breathtaking agility.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 12, 2015
And you’ve posted a link to a petition to an airline to ask them to stop transporting trophies. Reasonable people can disagree on the conservation impacts on hunting, on the benefits and costs, and on the morality and wisdom of using it as a conservation tool. And that lions are really cute. Ah, you’ve blocked me.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 3, 2014
Well, this time next week I’ll be winging my way to Cape Town via Auckland and Singapore (air transport is weird sometimes), so this is my last beat post of the year. I find them a moderately useful tool for sorting out my priorities. Now I get to work with it to try and save it. Bucket lists are interesting things.
4 The Love Of Animals
APRIL 24, 2009
Following is a telepathic conversation I experienced while transporting dogs to a rescue. One day about 10 years ago, I was in the process of transporting quite a few dogs to a rescue from a high kill shelter.
Animal Ethics
JANUARY 20, 2008
Even the most ardent defenders of the morality of using animals for food and as “tools” in scientific experiments admit that premises (1) and (2) are true and acknowledge that (1) and (2) capture something central to our moral relationship to animals. Running time: 12 Minutes.
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