Conservation

The Northern Spotted Owl is a “threatened” species under the U.S. Endangered Species Act and it was famously the subject…

I woke up at 5 am, a good two hours before the sun (and I really hate to be up…

I am preparing for the new census of one of the rarest birds of Serbia, the globally threatened Great Bustard,…

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit recently decided that the Sonoran Desert population of Bald Eagle is…

It began on Friday, February 17, 2017. Scott Pruitt was confirmed as the head of the United States Environmental Protection…

About four years ago I first wrote about the Pink-headed Duck, a charming species related to the pochards (although how,…

Birders derive “value” from birding.  But does the value of a particular trip come from the number of birds seen,…

Before the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA), there was the Endangered Species Preservation Act of 1966.  The first list…

I first met Robert Gallardo in 2009, when I made my first visit to the Neotropics for the Mesoamerican Bird…

On my latest trip home my mom and I spent a bit of time talking about Bald Eagles. I’d seen…