Wednesday, May 18, 2011

What makes a real conservationist?

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You know you're a REAL conservationist when you: 1) support habitat acquisition. Buying a Duck Stamp; being a member of The Nature Conse...
Thursday, May 12, 2011

New Spring Arrivals!

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(Transcript of today's For the Birds ) Thirty-six years ago yesterday, I saw my first warblers ever, in East Lansing, Michigan. On the a...
Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Anniversaries

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(Transcript of today's For the Birds ) Today, May 11, 2011, is the 36th anniversary of the day I saw my first warblers. On May 11, 1975,...
Monday, May 9, 2011

Mike Tyson's pigeons

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Mike Tyson wrote a lovely essay about pigeons for the New York Times . Reminds me of Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront .
Tuesday, May 3, 2011

A wrinkle in the space-time continuum

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(Transcript of today's For the Birds ) I woke up on May 1, 2011, in Chicago, where Russ and I had gone to attend our niece’s wedding. Be...
Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Visit to the Sharp-tailed Grouse blind

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(Transcript of today's For the Birds program ) This week I went to the Sharp-tailed Grouse blind south of Solon Springs managed by the F...

For your listening pleasure: Greater Prairie-Chickens

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In 2005 I went to Crookston, Minnesota to a blind managed by The Nature Conservancy to view Northern Prairie-Chickens. Greater Prairie-Chick...

For your listening pleasure: Sharp-tailed Grouse

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In 2005, I got some really nice recordings of Sharp-tailed Grouse displaying in Solon Springs, Wisconsin, at the lekking area managed by Fri...
Sunday, April 24, 2011

Bird hike to Wisconsin Point

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Here's the list of our Earth Day hike from eBird: Location: Wisconsin Point--First parking lot Observation date: 4/24/11 Notes: ...
Thursday, April 21, 2011

Fox Sparrow

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(Today's radio program: listen here .) Every day for about a week, I’ve been getting emails from people asking me to identify an unfamil...