This morning it is drizzling. It rained hard last night, with hail and funnel clouds in Billings and lightning all along the storm’s path....
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This Peregrine close-up courtesy of Larry Jordan In a move that’s sure to stir controversy far beyond the borders of California, federal officials have...
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There are some seven birds among the 100 most endangered species on the planet on the list of fauna and flora listed as the...
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Now nearing 50 and duly lost in a mid-life crisis, Dragan Simic took to birding rather late – only half a lifetime ago, after...
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Although extinction is a natural phenomenon, experts have determined that the current rate of bird extinction is somewhere between 1,000 and 10,000 times the...
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The Edwards’s Pheasant is a rather smart blue-black member of the pheasant family and it may be on the edge of extinction. It has recently...
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... and sometimes the bird tries to get you.
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It’s a plover, and it lives on the shore. What more do you need to know? Actually, there is a great deal more that...
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