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John Waddington-Feather tells a satisfying story in which a hard, uncompromising hill farmer who got the shock of his life.......

Heerman's Gull / Photo by Lee Karney (USFWS) Bird and birding news A willet and a sanderling are setting lifespan records at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. The willet was taken into captivity as an adult 21 years ago, and the sanderling is at least 22. A report from Birds Australia found that native Aus...

Purple Martin , originally uploaded by tbtalbottjr . Bird and birding news Scientists are using miniature geolocators to track the migration of Wood Thrushes and Purple Martins. (A video at the article link shows how the unit sits on a songbird.) Some birds fly very fast; individuals would cover up ...

...So dense was the snow outside, darkness began to fall early. They were sailing through a freezing maelstrom taken they knew not where by the sea and elements outside. They were in another world, a freezing hell set to claim......

Long-eared Owl in a Snow Storm / Photo by Bruce Yolton Bird and birding news At least some of the brown pelicans that have been turning up confused and starving in California were injured by frostbite, thanks to a harsh cold front in early December. Frostbite does not explain the situation entirely,...

Light flakes, clusters of powderdancing in the airfalling, defying gravity,swirling, spinning, risingpuffed up by the side of the housetwirling, left, right, risingslow motion, quick motionfalling when the wind is stillaerosol fluff, feathers of snowas if a marionette, under the spell of the puppete...

Red Crossbill / Photo by Dave Menke (USFWS) Bird and birding news EBird has a useful overview of how to identify crossbill species by ear, with linked audio samples. Cape May NWR acquired an additional 437 acres last week. There seem to be two tracts involved – a saltmarsh along Bidwell Creek in M...

DAY 3 in America and as the candles grow in number, I am thinking of a book from the West Coast about a turn of the century trade in ticklish bird feathers, that at first employed many Jews, but by its end, saw a concerted “Hellenistic� trend to force out the Jews. I am [...]...