Tuesday, January 3, 2023

American Birding Association's 2023 Bird of the Year: Belted Kingfisher

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In June 1975, after amassing a life list of 40 species during my first spring birding, I took a 4-week field ornithology class at Michigan S...
Saturday, December 31, 2022

100 Plants to Feed the Birds

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In May 2020, a month after my pregnant daughter and son-in-law refugeed from Brooklyn, New York, to our house during the pandemic, Deborah B...
Wednesday, December 28, 2022

Duluth's 2022 Christmas Bird Count

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The Christmas Bird Count was started on Christmas Day in 1900 by Frank Chapman, who wanted to provide an alternative to “Christmas Side Hunt...
Tuesday, December 13, 2022

She's Back!!!

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Wisdom in 2022. Photo by Keegan Rankin/USFWS In December 1956, in a study to protect nesting albatrosses on Midway Island, Chandler Robbins ...
Monday, December 12, 2022

A Very Belated Thanks to My Shakespeare Professor, Randal Robinson

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I’ve been in love with William Shakespeare’s works since my 9th grade English class, when we read The Merchant of Venice . Lenore Peters, a ...
Tuesday, November 29, 2022

Help make the Belted Kingfisher the official mascot of the University of Illinois

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In the late 1990s, I circulated a petition trying to get the Black-capped Chickadee named Minnesota’s Emergency Auxiliary Backup State Bird,...
Monday, November 28, 2022

The Black-capped Chickadee deserves a Guinness World Record!

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It’s hard to keep track of the world’s superlatives, but Guinness World Records  is the global authority on all things record-breaking, with...
Wednesday, November 23, 2022

Record breakers, from turkeys to that Bar-tailed Godwit

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Guinness World Records has 973 bird-related records, including the slowest flying birds, American and European Woodcocks who can fly a mere...
Sunday, November 20, 2022

Godwits!!

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Black-tailed (front) and Bar-tailed Godwits  Illustration from Naumann, Natural history of the birds of central Europe , 3rd Ed. 1905  When ...