July was the hottest month on record in the lower 48 states of the United States. Drought grips much of the nation’s west. And we...
After 28 days of sharing the duty of sitting on three eggs we finally had the arrival of our first Pied Oystercatcher chicks for...
In my recent post about birding Jamaica Bay’s East Pond I mentioned a very successful Snowy Egret. It caught fish after fish after fish...
This elusive, night-feeding, endemic bird of the Galapagos Islands is not easy to see. I have only seen it a couple of times; once...
Kapiti, a predator free island near Wellington that I’ve spoken of before, came close to receiving another mammalian invader recently. Fishermen out near the island spotted a possum riding a...
We’ve had a lot of discussion recently on the pros and cons of interfering with ‘nature’ on behalf of an individual animal. But sometimes,...
With one American birding magazine already having closed its doors this year it would be a real shame to lose another. Julie Zickefoose explains...
Rehabbers are all – well, almost all – connected by the internet. We join listservs so we can talk to compatriots, even if they...
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