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About Julie

Julie Zickefoose is an artist, naturalist and writer specializing in natural history. Her writing is based on keen observation of animal and human behavior, and she likes to interweave solid natural history information with larger philosophical themes to challenge and inspire the reader. Julie contributes three-minute natural history commentaries to National Public Radio’s All Things Considered. She illustrates her books and magazine articles with her own sketches and watercolor paintings. Letters from Eden (Houghton Mifflin, 2006) will soon be followed by a memoir about the birds she has raised, healed, studied and followed throughout her life. She lives at Indigo Hill, an 80-acre wildlife sanctuary in Appalachian Ohio with her husband, Bill Thompson III, their children Phoebe and Liam, and their Boston terrier, Chet Baker.

Do Birds Feel Love?

It’s clear that birds copulate, procreate, and promote their genes with alacrity. But love? Do birds feel love? Can they?…

The Bluebird Effect

My apologies, 10,000 Birds folk, for missing my December post on the 18th. There was this little thing called Christmas,…

Cemetery Owls

New York has its famous Red-tailed Hawks Pale Male and, until recently, Lola. Cambridge, Mass has a celebrity raptor pair, too….

Flower-loving Warblers

One of my greatest joys is photographing birds out my big studio windows. I have lots of plants that attract…

Bye Bye Birdies

What to do with this jar of nectar concentrate? In a fit of preparedness, I made a couple quarts of…

Open Season on Bald Eagles

Bald Eagle image is by Francois Portmann and is used with permission You know, I’ve been thinking about this whole dustup over hunting…

Last Gasp for Sandhill Cranes—Act Now!

As you’ll remember, Kentucky’s Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources unanimously passed its sandhill crane hunting proposal. All eight hunters…

How Do You Spell “Shitepoke?”

    This is all you usually see of a shitepoke. They’re shy.   My father had stories he’d tell,…

Kentucky’s Crane Hunt-It Ain’t Over…

For those of you who’ve been following the drama unfolding in Kentucky regarding a sandhill crane hunt, there’s bad news….

Kentucky: First in Crane Hunting?

As part of my effort to keep concerned wildlife enthusiasts informed about the proposal to hunt Eastern Flyway sandhill cranes,…

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