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Interview: Erik Hirschfeld, Editor of the Rare Birds Yearbook
By Charlie • February 25, 2009 • 1 commentA few days ago we published a very interesting interview with Jim Lawrence, Programme Development Manager of BirdLife’s ‘Preventing Extinctions Programme’ (PEP), which we joined in January. That interview gave us the point of view of a PEP insider; in the interview that follows we talked to Erik Hirschfeld, Editor of the Rare Birds Yearbook [...]
Interview: Jim Lawrence, BirdLife’s ‘Preventing Extinctions Programme’ Manager
By Charlie • February 21, 2009 • 1 commentA few days ago 10,000 Birds announced that we’d decided to support a conservation programme that quite possibly a good number of even our regular readers don’t know too much about - the BirdLife International ‘Preventing Extinctions Programme’.
At the time I mentioned that joining the Programme wasn’t cheap and required a three-year financial [...]
The Carolina Parakeet
By Charlie • January 9, 2009 • 11 commentsMany of the readers who visit 10,000 Birds are members of the developed world (more than 50% are North American according to our stats), and it’s fairly easy and comforting when we think of endangered parrots to think ‘third world’ - that supposedly ‘third world’ issues like habitat change and rapidly increasing human populations etc [...]
In Memory of Martha
By Charlie • September 24, 2007 • 23 commentsAn important anniversary passed quietly by recently. It was 93 years ago this month that the last individual of what had been estimated to be the world’s most abundant bird died. On September 1st 1914 ‘Martha’, the last surviving Passenger Pigeon in existence, was found dead in her cage in the Cincinatti Zoo. The following [...]
