Pigeons get no respect. More reviled than perhaps any other species for the mess they make, their copious poop,...
The Dodo (Raphus cucullatus) — that towering icon of modern anthropogenic extinctions — was a pigeon. Not, as Linneaus...
New Year’s Day 2014. With binoculars around my neck, I am leaving home, wondering which will be the first...
My friend Ruth, who is from Northern England, has a phrase she uses when her dog bursts into fits...
Author Sherrida Woodley thinks deeply about dearly departed birds. She’s contemplated California Condors here before, but Passenger Pigeons seem to resonate most with...
Blakiston’s Fish Owl (image by Robert tdc/Wikimedia Commons) Sometimes, on the bird news beat, you find gold at both ends of...
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