Friday, June 15, 2018

A Week on Hog Island in Maine

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I spent last week in Maine, mostly on Hog Island, a small coastal island owned by National Audubon. I was one of the instructors for Audu...
Monday, June 11, 2018

Koni Sundquist

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When Russ and I moved to Duluth in 1981, I didn’t know anyone in the birding community here. I was pregnant with our first baby and had j...
Friday, June 8, 2018

Good News: Declining Birth Rate

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In the past couple of weeks, a lot of news stories have centered around the announcement by the Centers for Disease Control and Preventio...
Wednesday, June 6, 2018

Listener Favorite: Robyn's Saw-whet Owl

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Last week, I got an email from Robyn Schroeder, who writes: Hello Laura,    It was probably almost two months ago that I heard the r...
Monday, June 4, 2018

The Giving Tree

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Back in 1981 when we moved into our house on Peabody Street, the very first songbirds I noticed were several Evening Grosbeaks sitting in...
Friday, June 1, 2018

Individuals vs Populations

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Last time I talked about the death of one particular Great Gray Owl and how it impacted one listener. Sometimes wildlife managers and oth...
Tuesday, May 29, 2018

The Life and Death of a Great Gray Owl

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Copyright 2018 by Mike Farmer; used with permission Last Thursday, I got an email from a listener named Mike. He writes:   For the pa...
Monday, May 28, 2018

From Our Far-Flung Correspondents: Google Supporting Feral Cats

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This week I got an email from KUMD listener Will Bomier from Mahtowa linking to an article in Saturday’s New York Times : “ Owl Lovers Cr...
Sunday, May 27, 2018

The Biggest Week in American Birding

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I spent several days this month in Ohio, in the area around the Magee Marsh, attending the Black Swamp Bird Observatory’s “ Biggest Week...