Items of Interest Worth Remembering
27 July 2014 marked the first day of sale for the 2014 Federal and Junior Duck Stamps. This year’s Federal Stamp features an image of Adam Grimm’s painting of a male and female Canvasback, while the Junior Stamp features one of a King Eider by Si Youn Kim.
In honor of the opening of the Smithsonian Libraries’ new “Once There Were Billions” exhibit, Joel Greenberg, author of the recently published A Feathered River Across the Sky; The Passenger Pigeon’s Flight to Extinction will be delivering a lecture titled “Echoes of Their Wings: The Passenger Pigeon and its Legacy” followed by a book signing on Tuesday, […]
The BBC’s Best of Natural History podcast series “Shared Planet” recently recorded a special episode at the Hay Festival titled “Nature and the Written Word,” in which an assembled panel composed of Ralph Pite, professor of English literature at University of Bristol, poet Annalise Emmans Dean, and Patrick Barkham, natural history writer for The Guardian and author […]
My review of Facing Extinction; The World’s Rarest Birds and the Race to Save Them (2nd edition) by Paul Donald, Nigel Collar, Stuart Marsden and Debbie Pain is included in the May / June 2014 issue of Bird Watcher’s Digest.