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Why You Should See The Big Year When It Opens

10,000 Birds

Timothy Barksdale is a birder, Prairie Chicken documentarian , and wildlife videographer well-known for his stunning Adventures with Birdman. Even though we spend more money and are far more numerous than hunters this is not commonly understood. We tend to be slightly older than that.

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The Art of Bird Camp

10,000 Birds

Nearly exterminated in Maine by hunters in the 1800‘s, the charismatic, orange-beaked little puffins nested only on one other state island until Dr. Kress painstakingly – and groundbreakingly – lured them back to nest on Eastern Egg Rock in 1977. What’s it called when birds return to the same nesting spot?”

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