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So here we are, we bird bloggers, four years after the inaugural I and the Bird (well, four years and one month…we seem to have forgotten to celebrate on time).  Four years is a long time in the real world: in the blogosphere it is an eternity!  Like many of the folks who contributed a [...]

Birding, on its face, seems to be a rather ecologically sensitive activity. What could be more environmentally sound than getting out into nature and scoping out birds, right? While it is true that one of the foundational drivers of conservation is the concept of protecting what one loves, sometimes one’s desire can exert a perversely [...]

Bird bloggers watch birds. We blog birds. We photograph birds. We write about birds. We study birds. We discuss birds. We feed birds. We chase birds. We listen to birds. We paint birds. We check birds off our lists of birds. We try to conserve habitat for birds. Sometimes we interact with birds. Something as [...]