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Trips

Rarer than Tigers: the Indian Wild Dog

July 9, 2015 by Dragan 4 Comments

India, February 2013 I am camping in the dry-deciduous jungle in eastern Maharashtra, near the geographic heart of India. It is February and evenings...

Trips

Whooping Crane at Joe Overstreet Road

January 27, 2015 by Corey 6 Comments

This year was my third year helping to lead trips at the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival. Like my two previous visits I...

Conservation

Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve: the Tiger Afternoon

January 22, 2015 by Dragan No Comments

Maharashtra, February 2013 Trying not to inhale so much of the dust cloud that envelops us, I am sporting a bandana tied bank-robber style....

Trips

Critically Endangered: Sociable Lapwing

November 27, 2014 by Dragan 2 Comments

Gujarat, December 2010 Target for today: critically endangered Sociable Lapwing (Vanellus gregarius). The official definition of CR status says the species could be gone...

Conservation

314 U.S. Bird Species Threatened — Many with Extinction — by Global Warming

September 10, 2014 by David 2 Comments

In June, I visited North Dakota for the first time. Like any birder visiting a new place, I had a target species list I...

Birds

Comebackers

September 9, 2014 by Felonious Jive 6 Comments

If you ask this Great Ornithologist, extinction is an extremely depressing issue. For mankind to snatch away a species’ very existence is wrong on...

Conservation

Racing to Save 2 Samoan Endemics

February 23, 2014 by Meredith Mann No Comments

It’s always tragic when a species goes extinct. But that tragedy is compounded when the species at risk is a country’s national bird. (Americans...

News

Whooping Cranes Shot and Killed in Kentucky

January 15, 2014 by Meredith Mann 3 Comments

It’s deja vu all over again, sadly. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has announced the death of two Whooping Cranes in Hopkins County, Kentucky. The...

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