10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 18, 2013

” I never did read about them, and eventually the memory of Sammy Blue Jay, Polly Woodchuck, Reddy Fox, and the rest faded to the back of my mind along with the details of Struggle Beneath the Sea and Sharon, Lois, and Bram. So it is pleasing to report that a new biography, Nature’s Ambassador: The Legacy of Thornton W.

Woodchucks 171

Woodchucks Buffalo Massachusetts Fox 171

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2016

It gets very confusing when I’m trying to look at subspecies descriptions in multiple field guides (“Slate-Colored Fox Sparrow” in Sibley West, for example, is “Western Slate-colored Group” in Stokes West). And, that falcons are about as far away from hawks as a bird family could get. This means that loons are no longer first!

North America 168

North America 2003 Birds America 168

Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Common sense tells us not to put the foxes in charge of the henhouse, but politicians repeatedly deny common sense in favor of the needs of special-interest groups. Back in the olden days of the family farm we never knew about the occurrence of food-related illness because we did not have a way of tracking it.

New York Times 40

New York Times New York 2008 Factory Farm 40