If you are an American (or, heck, even if you are not) call Congress today to help keep the pressure on to pass the Clean Water Protection Act. Learn more at ilovemountains.
Corey is a New Yorker who lived most of his life in upstate New York but has lived in Queens since 2008. He's only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasn't working as a union representative or spending time with his family. He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy and Desmond Shearwater. His bird photographs have appeared on the Today Show, in Birding, Living Bird Magazine, Bird Watcher's Digest, and many other fine publications. He is also the author of the American Birding Association Field Guide to the Birds of New York.
The section of the Appalachians threatened by mountaintop removal mining represents the southernmost breeding range for many bird species. It’s also prime breeding habitat for Cerulean Warblers, which are declining partly because of their forests are being destroyed along with the mountains. So it is really important for birders to get involved with this issue.
(I’ll just note that my representative introduced the bill.)
I was astounded that my (new, I just moved) representative, Gregory Meeks, was not already a sponsor. But I was nice and polite to the staffer that answered the phone and I have high hopes!