10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 22, 2014
Ron Pittaway has published his winter finch forecast for the winter of 2014-2015. Below is a slightly elided version which removes some of the Ontario-specific information and leaves just the meat of the forecast. Photo illustrations by yours truly have been added. For a full version of the forecast, head here. GENERAL FORECAST.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 23, 2013
Ron Pittaway has published his winter finch forecast for the winter of 2013-2014. Below is a slightly elided version which removes some of the Ontario-specific information and leaves just the meat of the forecast. Photo illustrations by yours truly have been added. For a full version of the forecast, head here.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 24, 2014
New Year’s Day 2014. The explanation said: „dovecote – fresh meat in case of siege“. In turn, those domestic pigeons were the first domesticated birds ever, bred for their meat from wild Rock Pigeons (or Rock Doves) in the Middle East some 6000 years ago. And yet, I have passed by one before that. The one I do not count.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 25, 2022
One of my most vivid memories of watching The Sopranos – still the best TV series ever, in my opinion – is Tony outside barbecuing, occasionally turning the different pieces of meat.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 6, 2015
Allow me to take you back in time, to November 2014. And that flight is illegal because EU legislation does not allow export of game meat from Serbia to EU. It is being hunted solely for food, and those who kill them certainly want their meat exported by any criminal channel available. The Turtle Dove is not a trophy animal.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 20, 2019
When I came here for the first time in 2014, I stayed at the Limneo B&B in the Chrisochorafa Village and met its owner, Nikos Gallios. Nikos managed to show us the incubating Cattle Egrets, of which only 2 or 3 pairs breed in this enormous heronry, counting up to 9000 pairs back in 2014. What should I expect?
10,000 Birds
JULY 2, 2024
In the 19th- and early 20th-centuries, shorebirds were killed outright for their meat, a trade that only ended with the passage of federal legislation (which still excepts game birds such as woodcock and snipe). Dunne was director of the Cape May Bird Observatory and vice-president of the New Jersey Audubon Society for many years, till 2014.
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