Tag: Fiction - 10,000 Birds

Birding, Reviews

“The Edge,” an LA novel of sex, drugs, alt-rock, and (some) birds

April 4, 2020 by Mark No Comments

Reviewed regularly on this blogsite are: (1) bird identification guides, visual and sonic; (2) books about living with birds or caring for rescued birds;...

Red-tailed Hawk in tree

Blogging

A Hawk in the Woods

September 28, 2018 by Carrie 1 Comment

Well what’s the big deal, you might ask? I see those all the time. But you’ve never seen one like this before, because A...

Common Raven: Historic photo

Inspiration

Zombies!

January 5, 2018 by Carrie 5 Comments

Once upon a time, in the hazy past of 2013, I was asked to write a zombie story. This happened to a lot of...

Short-tailed albatrosses and decoys on Midway Island

Birds

An Open Letter to the Birds on the Webcams, Re: Nesting Season

August 11, 2017 by Carrie 1 Comment

Tragically, McSweeney’s doesn’t have quite enough hard-core birders in the audience to appreciate this. But I thought you guys would! Look, you guys, I...

Reviews

Washashore by Suzanne Goldsmith

January 30, 2015 by Carrie 2 Comments

The early teen years are prime time for kids to adopt environmentalism as a cause. The human sense of fairness and empathy is strongly...

Reviews

Take Wing and Fly Here by Priyanka Kumar

November 8, 2013 by Carrie 3 Comments

Will you indulge me for a minute? (Of course you will. You always do.) In speaking of Take Wing and Fly Here, the first...

No Other Way book cover

Reviews

No Other Way by Roger Real Drouin

October 4, 2013 by Carrie No Comments

For some reason, this post did not go up in August when it was scheduled. My apologies to Mr. Drouin and the readers! As...

Inspiration

The Lister

May 29, 2013 by Corey 7 Comments

The room was dark, damp, cold, and smelled of peanut butter. Mark came awake on a thin mattress on a stone floor in an...

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Beat Writer Posting Calendar

Monday
Kai Pflug (weekly)
Birding Lodges of the World
Tuesday
Donna Schulman (monthly)
Susan Wroble (monthly)
Hannah Buschert (monthly)
Fitzroy Rampersand (monthly)
Bird Guides of the World (weekly)
Wednesday
Leslie Kinrys (biweekly)
Faraaz Abdool (biweekly)
Ask a Birder (occasionally)
Thursday
Paul Lewis (weekly)
Birder’s Lists (weekly)
Friday
David Tomlinson (weekly)
Species Spotlight (occasionally)
Saturday:
Luca Feuerriegel (biweekly)
Peter Penning (biweekly)
Sunday:
Clive Finlayson (weekly)
Valters Videnieks (biweekly)

Any-Time Contributors:
Jason Crotty
Mark Gamin
John Hague
Sara Jentsch
Rolf Nessing
Dragan Simic

See here for info on the writers.