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Stopover Season.

  1. Let's begin with a look at evolution happening right before our eyes: Tiny birds on remote Scottish islands are undergoing a dramatic evolutionary transformation. Scientists studying four isolated populations of British Wrens discovered...
11 days ago
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Artificial Egg.

  1. Let's begin with great news from the City That Never Sleeps: From the 1990s until his death in 2023, Pale Male was the red-tailed hawk that was famous for the Fifth Avenue address and the girlfriends. Now Octavia, the name given to his l...
18 days ago
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Painted Turbines.

1. Let's begin with " ...a remarkable day in birding history": 9 May 2026 will go down as a remarkable day in birding history. For the first time ever, Global Big Day birders documented more than 8,000 bird species in one day, a new world...

25 days ago
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Flyover.

1. Let's begin with CBS' "60 Minutes" in Columbia: Colombia, with its varied geography, has about 2,000 species of birds — more than any other country in the world. All those species of birds have become an important part of a growing ecot...

a month ago
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The Mechanics of Flight.

1. A first! The Great Backyard Bird Count and Chanel couture in one story? Yup! Only in Vogue: It started simple enough: Two years ago, on holiday in Curaçao, I discovered a palm-sized yellow bird trapped inside the restaurant where I was...

a month ago
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    Career in CleanTech, renewables and electric power. Avid birder. Board of Cornell Lab of Ornithology, George and Barbara Bush Foundation, Old Westbury Funds

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