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As always when I am in the car, while Daisy and I drove to my folks’ house in Saugerties, NY, to join family for the Christmas holiday, I paid careful attention to any and all bird life I could see. I did not, however, expect to have yet another encounter with what is now [...]

Check out the remarkable photo posted by Martin Cade, Warden of the UK’s PBO, on the Observatory website: do winter visitors come much more special than this?

What better way to spend Christmas Eve than driving so far north in New York State that you are actually north of the Adirondacks (to look for birds, of course)? Nothing! So when Daisy dragged me out of my warm bed before sunrise this morning, insisting we head way up to the town [...]

Two men have been charged in connection with the October 05 massacre of 52 Red-footed Falcons Falco vespertinus - used apparently as ‘target practice’ - in the Phasouri area of Cyprus. Birdlife International has the details.

 
“And the three boys had a dream - a simple dream where the world was at peace, where birders took the highest political offices on the planet, where the world’s religions preached birding as a way to heal the deep wounds between the communities of the earth, where conservation became as fashionable as the i-phone, [...]

In a true show of holiday magnanimity, Amy has extended the deadline for her edition of I and the Bird to Sunday, December 23. If you haven’t sent a submission in yet, get one to Amy (ahooper AT bowtieinc DOT com) ASAP.

Today, the winter solstice, December 22, is the shortest day of the year in the northern hemisphere. It is also, despite the quantity of snow on the ground outside of my house as I type this, the first day of winter. That’s the bad news. The good news is that every day [...]

“The White Birds,” a poem W.B. Yeats wrote early in his career as a poet and dramatist, is like his other early works in that, according to Wikipedia, it meditates “on the themes of love or mystical and esoteric subjects.” Not a well-known poem, it is overshadowed by another of his early poems, “The Lake [...]

That daring diver Tai Haku of Earth, Wind & Water presented his thrilling Top 10 Nature Moments of 2007 and invited us to do the same. While we’d each have a tough time narrowing down our top ten favorite moments in the field this year, Charlie, Corey and I have decided to offer an even [...]

Über-consumer PH has revealed that she’s now an environmentalist: “I changed all the light bulbs to energy-safe light bulbs and I’m buying a hybrid car right now,” the 26-year-old celeb said Wednesday. Hilton said she “turns off the lights, doesn’t leave the TV on or the water running when she leaves her house”. The comments [...]