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I’m a New Yorker.  I was born in the Hudson Valley and grew up in the Catskills, went to...

Years ago, I wrote about the glaring homogeneity in North American birding circles and by glaring, I mean all...

When I am having anything larger than the mailbox in my apartment building shipped to me I specify that...

Everyone knows who John James Audubon became: a renowned artist and naturalist whose inimitable style and spirit made him...