Laura's Birding Blog

I’ve been getting an interesting assortment of comments on my recent work. Bob House, one of my good friends from New Mexico, commente...

Back in 2008, at least a hundred people forwarded an email to me showing a series of photos titled "Rebirth of the Eagle." It w...

On Sunday, October 22, two children named Henry and Eden came to my house with a problem—a tiny bird was trapped in their shed. They live...

When people discover anything in nature for the first time, their first experiences become their benchmark for “how it’s supposed to be....

In May, the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s journal, Science , published a story, “ Where have all the insects gone...

I belong to a private Facebook group that shares information for those of us fighting to keep cats indoors . Many of the posts link to st...

Me, my birding friend Delia Unson, and our dogs, Pip and Spree When I go birding, I invariably wear khaki cargo pants—a cotton blend mos...

The baseball postseason is upon us—only the second postseason in history (the previous one being in 2003) to include both the Chicago Cub...

Smith's Longspur at the Stuttgart Municipal Airport in 2006. On September 28, Jim Lind reported a Smith’s Longspur in Two Harbors,...

This week, my friend James Backus wrote on Facebook: Just began reading E.O. Wilson's THE SOCIAL CONQUEST OF EARTH. On the first pa...