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Category Archives: Birds
Male Common Merganser Mourns Dead Mate
The waters of Lake Michigan are calm tonight, so calm they barely ripple and our pup can drink without wetting his paws. We walked south along the shore towards Whaleback and away from the Leland harbor. I spotted a white … Continue reading
Mrytle Warbler and Louisiana Thrush, the first two warblers of Spring
A first-year male sat on a small branch in the sycamore at Route 66 State Park a few dozen miles west of my home. It flew out and caught an insect that was invisible to me. Then flew out again, … Continue reading
Posted in Biology, Birds, St. Louis Audubon, Uncategorized, Warblers
Tagged birding, Birds, Nature, st louis, Warblers
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Very short TV video for Slow Birding
At 9 AM I met the camera person and the reporter at the visitor’s center in Forest Park. We were going to talk about Slow Birding for a local educational channel. I wondered how it would go and who these … Continue reading
Slow Birding as a book is published!
At last there is a book Slow Birding and it has a lot of birds in it! Don’t you wonder about your local birds? When I see the White-throated Sparrows that have arrived from their northern breeding grounds only recently … Continue reading
Don’t you want to participate in a spring birdathon?
In April and May we can witness a great migration as songbirds stream north in rivers of life, so numerous weather radar sees clouds that are not storms but birds. These birds feather their way north to thawing breeding grounds … Continue reading
Posted in Birds, High Island, Houston, Migration, Shorebirds
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Springtime brings new beginnings and death
Springtime. Have you been paying attention? What are your springtime rituals for this so short season? At our departmental celebration yesterday of Carlos Botero’s achievement of tenure all were full of hiking and canoeing talk. The Ozarks beckon, though the … Continue reading
Why grasshoppers cannot poison Loggerhead Shrikes
I did a double take when a Loggerhead Shrike appeared before me on the barbed wire separating the parking lot from train tracks since I had just seen a pair of Northern Mockingbirds in a nearby live oak. Of course … Continue reading
Two silent eastern phoebes in Burcham Park
Where is your patch, the place you bird every day you can? Mine in East Lansing is Burcham Park. I nominated it for a hotspot and so it is on eBird, though so far only I have recorded birds there, … Continue reading
Posted in Birds, Michigan, Migration
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Birding the Western Ghats in Southwest India
The Western Ghats! A hottest hot diversity site recognized by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site and known also poetically as Sahyadri. The trick is how to penetrate this land of elephants and tigers, past the pot-holed roads and shrines. … Continue reading
Birding as a world citizen: ten tips
My favorite way to bird is related to the slow food movement: stay local, stay focused, and stay appreciative. So how can I keep to my principles when I bird in places as far away as the Western Ghats in … Continue reading
Posted in Birds, Environment, India
Tagged birding, Environment, international citizen, Nature
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