10,000 Birds
MARCH 31, 2012
The newest bird on the brink to capture her fertile imagination is the California Condor, on which she graciously shares her research and ruminations: Sometimes as a writer you recognize there’s been something overlooked in your midst—something quietly abiding. Condors, like all New World vultures, can disturb the human psyche.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 2, 2024
Osborn, a passionate field biologist who participates to the core of her being three re-introduction projects aimed at saving three very different, endangered species: Peregrine Falcon, Hawaiian Crow (‘Alala)*, and California Condor. As of 2024, the ‘Alala are extinct in the wild though they live on in captivity.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 8, 2013
The unrivaled aerial champions of the Americas have to be the two species of Condor, the one-time almost nearly extinct California Condor and the truly massive Andean Condor. The California Condor has a story well-known by anyone with an interest in birds. California Condor , photo by Sheridan Woodley.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 2, 2016
When ground sloths and Titanis disappear, adapt; when humans and their strange accessories appear, adapt. Each is endangered because of human activity in and around the places they’re named for, chiefly habitat destruction. million years to the Lower Paleolithic. When glaciers rise and fall, adapt.
10,000 Birds
MAY 30, 2019
such as California Condors and Passenger Pigeons. Except for the falconer’s jesses and bell, they were to be allowed freedom to pursue life in the wild, life with minimal human contact. Author Sherrida Woodley thinks deeply about dearly departed birds. She’s already written about Rachel Carson: Secret Birder.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 1, 2020
In “Birding in Traffic,” Jonathan Rosen, no stranger to making connections between birds and human elements as he did in “The Life of the Skies,” describes how he took the subway to Union Square Park to see a rare (for NYC) Scott’s Oriole. The two stories about New York City are personal favorites, of course.
10,000 Birds
JULY 5, 2016
I love condors and vultures. Most humans cannot say that. Columbia has chosen one of the world’s most massive flying species as its national bird: the Andean Condor. Like their relatives, the California condors, Andean condors have bald heads.”
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