In just a few hours I should be on an airplane leaving for England in order to attend the largest gathering of bird watchers anywhere in the world – the British Birdwatching Fair. I should be – but I won’t be. It just wasn’t in the cards (VISA or American Express) this year. For those […]
Have you ever had a magical bird moment? A brief moment in time while watching a bird when the wall separating the avian and the mammalian species seems inexplicably to become thinner and you feel as though you are able more purely to perceive the spirit of the bird itself? No, I haven’t been spending […]
As regular readers well know, for the better part of the past week I attended the American Ornithologists’ Unions’ 2008 Annual Meeting where I was surrounded by some of the finest ornithological minds in North America, perhaps in some cases even in the world. The casual conversations I overheard during the breaks between presentations and […]
It's the Day of the Condor here at AOU Portland 2008. Updates on the state of Condor conservation in North America were presented. The news isn't good. Lead ammunition (bullets, not shot) continues to be a problem as it increases the overall amount of lead in the environment and especially in the Condor's food chain. […]