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Do you blog on or read about varied topics in science? Do you plan on being on or near North Carolina in mid-January? Maybe you should. That way you can be a part of the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. This exciting event is presented as a free, open and public event for scientists, [...]

In the long, slow, painful process of transferring content from the old version of this blog to the shiny, new one, I realize I’ve been remiss in promoting the first book on bird watching I ever read, one that happens to still stand as one of the funniest. The Verb ‘To Bird’ by Peter Cashwell [...]

I’d be remiss if I didn’t publicly celebrate that Richard Pombo, that tainted foe of all environmental causes, has finally lost his congressional seat. So long, sucker!

The warm weather this weekend put me in the mood to go birding. The sleek Sharp-shinned Hawk that flew over my building motivated me to act on that mood. So Mason and I stopped at Crestwood Lake while running errands. This site is always good for freshwater ducks in season, and if my mounting anxiety [...]

Blogging is terrific fun. Everybody’s doing it and earning their whopping $2.00 a year from Adsense while they’re at it. At the current rate of blogosphere growth, something like a million new blogs every second, pretty soon every man, woman, and child on this planet will have one. Too bad most of them will be [...]

of science is served up in issue #66 of the Tangled Bank with extra segues over at easternblot.net.

to save the albatross from extinction. Estimates suggest that 100,000 albatrosses are inadvertently killed each year by long-line fishing boats.

Patrick of The Hawk Owl’s Nest put together a scintillating Birder Survey, one that I’ve been remiss in completing. Time to rectify that now… What state (or country) do you live in? New York How long have you been birding? 4 years Are you a “lister”? Oh yeah! ABA Life List: 343 Overall Life List: [...]

On a day as fraught with peril and opportunity as this, one likes to trot out George Bernard Shaw’s old chestnut that “democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.” Well, I respectfully disagree. The American people have yet another chance to break the stranglehold of the most [...]

Did you know that Tuesday 11/7 is Election Day in the US? In the spirit of the day, why not elect to participate in the thirty-sixth edition of I and the Bird? Vote for your best bird-themed blog post and get it in to me or our host, Roger of Words & Pictures (roger-dot-butterfield AT [...]