We are fast approaching what is, for me, one of the most poignant times of the year. It’s when I step outside my back...
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I have commented before on the privilege and pain of living in a state (Michoacán, Mexico) which hosts 10 out of the 15 Empidonax...
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Birders are utterly suspicious characters. By Greek law enforcement officers, I had already been taken for a spy. But, seen from the opposite angle,...
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Many years ago, when I was a young and stupid Masters student in Conservation Biology, I was given the opportunity to pick a location...
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There are no swifts in Missoula. Except when there are. When there are is migration, and it is happening now. As an East Coaster...
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When I was a kid, my dad called them “flying stoagies”, something he picked up from an old ornithology professor. I always thought it...
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What a wonderful way to get people interested in birds!
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While eating the nests of swifts is nothing new, the large-scale production of these nests is. Already a $200 million a year industry largely...
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