It was the Christmas Bird Count recently and I like birds a lot, though I'm too lazy to be a serious birder. Still, I have a lot of good bird experiences, especially in Latin America. One of the great moments of my entire life was...
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There's mourning in New York today. Flaco, the Eurasian eagle-owl that escaped from the Bronx Zoo last year and became a spectacle in Central Park, has died after flying into.
This is the grave of Robert Cushman Murphy. Born in 1887 in Brooklyn, Murphy started his involvement with birds at a young age. He grew up on Long Island, one.
Let's start Sunday with a cool story! Two years after Zion National Park saw its first wild-hatched condor take to the skies, another has accomplished the same feat.California Condor nestling #1111 in late August took off from its nest cave on the cliff just north...
Birds, among many other animals, are attempting to adapt to climate change by becoming smaller: One fall morning in 1978, David Willard, an ornithologist at the Field Museum in Chicago,.
I rewatched Winged Migration the other night. It's such a great film. Following birds, mostly geese and other related waterfowl who migrate in packs, along their migration routes in ultralights,.
As someone who spends a lot of time in cemeteries, I'm interested in how these spaces become forms of public space, especially in urban centers, but also in small towns without sufficient parks. When my wife taught in rural Pennsylvania, the cemetery was the place...
Oh good god. A dozen dead Barn and Violet-green Swallows huddled together on the dusty desert floor of southern New Mexico. Numerous Western Bluebirds packed into a crevice in southern Colorado as.
Just in case you were wondering how much the extinctions of the past few hundred years are caused by humans, the answer is nearly all of them. Not so long.
This is the grave of John James Audubon. Born Jean Rabin in modern Haiti in 1785, his father was a sugar planter and slaver and his mother was his mistress, a white chambermaid originally from France. His father, like many slaveowners, had lots of children...
This is the grave of Alexander Wilson. The Father of American Ornithology, Wilson was born in 1766 in Scotland. He was not wealthy and was apprenticed as a weaver at.
In 1985, I took the first trip of my life. We drove from Oregon to Minnesota for a family reunion. For me, at that age, this was exciting. As we.