10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2021

Sometime back in 2018, I started sharing some of my photos by e-mail with my sister and aunt. But most of our forest has a combination of both pines and oaks, with dozens of species from each family growing in the state of Michoacán. It’s all about the avocados. The driest slopes may be covered with pines, almost exclusively.

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Costa Rica Mexico Birds illegal 149

10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2020

The same weakness is found in The Feather Thief (2018), a book similarly about an obsessive thief with flexible boundaries of right and wrong. a close childhood friend of Lendrum’s, Howard Waller, breeds falcons for Sheikh Butti bin Maktoum, a member of the Dubai royal family.

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Falcons United Kingdom Zimbabwe Eggs 206

10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2018

Viking, April 2018. In a few years, he achieves rock-star status in the classic fly tying world, invited to tie flies at conventions, cited in Internet chat rooms, mentored by the best in the field. The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century. by Kirk Wallace Johnson.

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Collecting Iraq Ostriches Science 103

10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2019

Naziridis, whose authority doesn’t only come from his position, but also from a fact that he was born and bred in one of the villages around the lake – so he is not seen as a ‘foreigner’, but as one of the locals – answered: “It is not the pelicans, but your illegal fishing doing the damage.”

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Greece Pelicans Buffalo Fish 193

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2022

Wrynecks are fascinating because they are woodpeckers, taxonomically and evolutionarily, yet they do not share many behaviors and anatomical features of most members of the Picidae family. But they are woodpeckers: the genus Jynx of the subfamily Jynginae of the Picidae family. They are beautiful, but in a different way.

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Woodpeckers Hungary Thailand Europe 231