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Way back when I started my Anti-Global Warming Big Year I decided that if I flew somewhere and stayed there for more than a couple of days I could count the birds I saw there provided I offsetted the carbon that the flight produced.  So I counted a bunch of birds in California that I […]

Following closely on the heels of Mike’s hosting of “Festival of the Trees” we here at 10,000 Birds are proud and delighted to host another Carnival, and what an intriguing title it has: “Learning in the Great Outdoors”. When I first heard of “Learning in the Great Outdoors” I half wondered (I’ll be honest) if […]

I’m thrilled to be hosting this edition of the world’s greatest aggregation of arboreal blog brilliance. It should come as no surprise that I spend plenty of time looking at trees. In fact, over the next few weeks, I plan on scanning the canopy with an intensity that will undoubtedly result in either eye strain […]

So here I am, innocently trying to figure out why we need both Earth Day and Arbor Day in the same week when yet another shred of my ecological innocence is torn asunder. No, it wasn’t the revelation that Arbor Day always falls on the last Friday of April in the U.S. that horrifies me. […]