10,000 Birds
JUNE 13, 2021
Both falconers and wildlife rehabilitators have to study, gain experience, and jump through various hoops in order to get their licenses. For instance, you can own a lion in Alabama, but not in California. But in many states, any idiot with 20 bucks can get a permit to own a non-native, captive-bred bird of prey.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 28, 2024
There are a few spectacles in the birding community that are high energy, happen quickly, and is worth any effort to experience it. One such experience is a bird grounding event, sometimes called a fallout. A fallout is usually reserved for more significant events, but there is no true gauge as to one versus the other.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 31, 2017
To enhance the experience, I recommend acquiring a bottle or two of Merlot and inviting some non-birding friends over. Neil is a graduate student at the University of Alabama, where he studies avian ecology. However, nighttime lends the opportunity unparalleled in coolness to hear nocturnal migrants call as they wing overhead.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 6, 2021
The book is organized into ten chapters, framed by a Prologue and Epilogue focused on Weidensaul’s banding experience in Denali National Park. His participant observations connect to his own research experiences, providing history and perspective. Weidensaul traveled to each location to witness the research in process.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 6, 2023
In Better Living Through Birding , Chris tells us stories of his life, a very unique life, but he also crafts his experiences so we can relate to them as birders and as people. Because being a birder means you experience life through that framework. And, as he did a decade ago, the joys and benefits of birding.
10,000 Birds
MAY 4, 2021
A little more than halfway through 2014, a year Marybeth had decided would be devoted to finishing in the top fifty eBirders in Louisiana AND Alabama, there is a terrible accident and time must be put aside for Lynn’s healing and recovery. But, in Chapter Three the book takes on more shape.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 22, 2018
The Wilson’s Plovers with their stout crab cracking beaks and hunched demeanor, they have less distance to fly but it’s still no small feat to zip from Alabama to Costa Rica. Just fly from there to here to rumble around the mud flats of the Nicoya Gulf? Life is always better when bearing witness to Sunbittern madness.
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