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I was thinking of writing a poem in honor of the Bobolink, to memorialize its place as #278 on our life list.  Fortunately for those of you who prefer good poetry, William Cullen Bryant (1794-1898) beat me to it. His work, Robert of Lincoln, is a worthy tribute to a spectacular bird.
Merrily swinging on briar […]

What a weekend! Chicken Inferno 2004 was incredible, an event for the ages. If our plans for a high-quality website come to fruition, I’ll invite everyone to enjoy the pictures. For now, I’ll just tell you about the trip.
Potter County, PA is as rural an area as you can find only 300 miles from New […]

No post tomorrow, since we’ll be enjoying a long weekend as we bring Mason out to the country for his first Chicken Inferno. What is this Chicken Inferno, you ask. Well, hold on to your hats, because you’re about to get a glimpse into the lives of the Core Team that you may regret.
The […]

We are losing species of birds, along with every other type of living creature, at a rate unprecedented in history. Dr. Stuart Pimm, world-renowned conservation biologist, summarized the severity of the situation in an 1998 interview with the American Museum of Natural History:
There are about 10,000 species of birds on the planet at the moment. […]

Who doesn’t love a long weekend? Sunday was all about BBQ and bonhomie, but on Saturday, the Core Team took advantage of the free time to visit a couple of our favorite Putnam County haunts.  Putnam is upstate of NYC, just like virtually everything north of Yonkers, sandwiched between ritzy Westchester and distant Dutchess Counties. […]

The BBC today reports about a Manx Shearwater, a pelagic bird, that is believed to be the oldest wild bird in the United Kingdom:
Manxie, who is at least 51, has been coming back to Bardsey Island off the Gwynedd coast every year for half a century.
Ornithologists have also discovered a veteran Razorbill which has broken […]