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...

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....

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...

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 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…...

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...