10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 21, 2014
Not so much because of the castle — though I remember it being pretty — but because on a low rock wall near where we sat to eat our lunches I spotted a strange little bird, a bit like a nuthatch but largely dark gray with vivid red wing-markings. The undoubted highlight, though, was the trip to Neuschwanstein.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 26, 2011
In perhaps the ultimate expression of everything that is wrong with American culture, a 19-year-old man in a Humvee intentionally ran over ducklings in a McDonald’s parking lot in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Dillon Pearce faces up to four years in prison after being charged with a felony. My money is on him getting off with community service.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 19, 2013
Much has been made in these pages about the havoc that feral cats wreak on native birds. An abandoned kitten nicknamed Frankie had staked out a McDonald’s restaurant as its feeding grounds, and for more than a year, subsisted mainly on handouts from employees and customers. No Kea were harmed in the making of this story.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 23, 2023
Superficially similar but unrelated to New World condors, it is huge, more pterodactyl-like than bird-like. But it’s a huge bird. Stopping for a large cappuccino at a drive-in McDonalds en route, soon I entered a hamlet of a dozen family homes mixed with a dozen small apartment buildings. m (8 ft 2 in – 10 ft 2 in) wingspan.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 12, 2011
As part of the Wildlife Conservation Society Birds of Brazil giveaway we asked readers of 10,000 Birds to name the bird in Brazil that they would like to see more than any other species. It is a really neat bird that I have not seen before. It would mean that I was birding in a really cool place! Come quickly!”
10,000 Birds
JULY 3, 2011
Hat tip to Michael McDonald.) Northern Cardinalz , take a few minutes to enjoy the gorgeous hand painted avian aggression renderings by L.A. artist Sage Vaughn. Sure it’s a year old, but it’s new to me!
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 10, 2012
I realize that listing is a reviled in birding culture as it is celebrated, and more listing even more so, but hear me out here. I mean to make the argument that county listing is birding at its most pure, the ultimate combination of the two warring angels that sit upon each one of our shoulders. A fine bird for the county.
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