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ACTION ALERT! Tomorrow, MARCH 15, 2011, is the deadline for public.

10,000 Birds

Gassett, I am a writer, naturalist and artist with a special interest in human/bird interactions. The sandhill crane has the lowest recruitment rate (average number of young birds joining a population each season) of any bird now hunted in North America. Where Are You Birding this Second Weekend of March 2009?

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Do Birds Feel Love?

10,000 Birds

While we’re used to declarations that our pet parrots “love” us just as we love them, and they can be quite demonstrative in showing their affection, the evidence is thinner for wild birds. My three orphans had left for Central America in September 2003. The real test of hummingbird bonds came in 2004. Would they return?

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