10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 9, 2011
Summer is ending, and that means the birds are migrating again. In Cyprus it also means that the hunters and trappers are active again. It starts with the trappers, who’ve been at it for weeks now. BirdLife Cyprus started their Fall monitoring program weeks ago. The trapping is particularly bad in the Cape Pyla area.
10,000 Birds
JULY 19, 2011
Over the years, I’ve chronicled an apparent decline in the numbers of the birds hanging around the kill-zone. The Chicken Inferno is always one of the highlights of my year, but bird watching rarely takes center stage at the event. This year, though, the birding was better than usual.
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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 21, 2012
I’ve just finished reading THE PLUME HUNTER (Torrey House Press, December 2011) by Renée Thompson. Some of the most prolific killing fields were in the marshes of the American West (I knew about Florida but was surprised at how widespread it was), where men shot birds such as grebes, terns, pelicans, snowy egrets, and great egrets.
10,000 Birds
JULY 19, 2011
from “Baby it is cold outside&# by Clare Kines from “Superbowl of Birding 2011″ from “Birding After the Snow&# by Sharon Stiteler from “The Snow Bunting That Almost Killed Me, or, Hyperbole In Bird Blog Post Titles Is Fun&# I hope this attempt to keep you cool paid off, at least a little bit.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 7, 2011
By Mike • March 7, 2011 • 5 comments Tweet Share I bet you do! Duncan Mar 7th, 2011 at 5:15 pm I can imagine being there. I can also imagine how much it costs, which kind of kills the dream a bit. Mike Mar 7th, 2011 at 5:46 pm The trip (not counting airfare) might be a lot less than you think, Duncan.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 20, 2013
From Birdlife International, “In 2010-2011 an American Mink Neovison vison, a new arrival on the Buenos Aires plateau, killed more than half the adults in a breeding colony of two dozen nests (Roesler et al. We only observed 6 breeding colonies, two in 2009/2010 and four in 2010/ 2011, totalling 242 nesting attempts.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 13, 2011
Everywhere you look in the United States around this time of year, giant orange squashes are just loafing around, killing time until their inevitable trip to the mulch pile on November 1. Do you know what I love about October?
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