Today is the deadline for contributions to the 5th anniversary edition of I and the Bird, hosted here on Thursday. Please look back in your blog archives and determine your very best trip report. This could be a post from years ago or as fresh as next week (meaning you can write one if you don’t have one you love), and the destination can be far-flung or close to home. You can even submit one you’ve already shared with I and the Bird. Send me a link to your submission along with a brief explanation of why you chose that report. Hurry!
Mike is a leading authority in the field of standardized test preparation, but he's also a traveler who fully expects to see every bird in the world. Besides founding 10,000 Birds in 2003, Mike has also created a number of other entertaining but now extirpated nature blog resources, particularly the Nature Blog Network and I and the Bird.
Hi Mike, Hope I can contribute an IATB post by commenting, as I don’t have your e-mail at hand. At Round Robin, I’ve been visiting Louisiana shorebird colonies, both oiled and unoiled, and offering a bit of biological insight about what’s happening. Here’s one post: Oiled mangroves and the birds within http://birdsredesign.wordpress.com/2010/06/29/louisiana-report-oiled-mangroves-and-the-birds-within-slideshow/ – there are seven in all. They include slideshows as well, with some very detailed photographs taken by one of our photographers, Benjamin Clock. Thanks for considering,
Hugh Powell
Cornell Lab of Ornithology