swifts

Birders are utterly suspicious characters. By Greek law enforcement officers, I had already been taken for a spy. But, seen…

Many years ago, when I was a young and stupid Masters student in Conservation Biology, I was given the opportunity…

There are no swifts in Missoula. Except when there are. When there are is migration, and it is happening now….

When I was a kid, my dad called them “flying stoagies”, something he picked up from an old ornithology professor. …

What a wonderful way to get people interested in birds!

While eating the nests of swifts is nothing new, the large-scale production of these nests is.  Already a $200 million…

The sky has been haunting me for days now. It is the featureless nature of the sea of blue, spanning…