Bird-banding may not seem like the most important casualty of Trumpism and maybe it's not. But it is a casualty nonetheless and a sign of just how stupid this nation has become: If the Trump administration gets its way, we won’t have much hope of...
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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.
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 of nine children in a big Catholic family, though he would later become a Unitarian...
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.
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, it's just an astounding film, really one of the great documentaries of all time. One...
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.
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 ago, the northern seas were full of great auks. Every summer, millions of the two-toned,...
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,.
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.