10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2020

Jon Fjeldså’s contributions include many of the ducks, yellow-finches, and many other families where his images of Birds of the High Andes could be used. And, it has to be added that all of these artists and the additional seven artists contributed images that filled out plates of most of the bird families.

Bolivia 171

Bolivia Birds Brazil Switzerland 171

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

As the story goes, the family that first planted the vineyard that became Dancing Crow were working their land in the shadow of Mount Konecti in the 1850s, painstakingly marking the spacing and orientation of their future vine rows using straws stuck into the earth. Dancing Crow Vineyards Zinfandel (2017). Three out of five stars (Good).

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2017 Nevada California Italy 157

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Wenfei Tong’s Bird Love: The Family Life of Birds addresses such topics as courtship, mating systems, raising chicks, sex role reversals, and others. Aglianico is a rustic and savory red wine from Southern Italy made from a venerable grape of the same name. Look at that cover!

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2020 North America Birds Italy 193