Laura's birding blog—usually a fleshed-out transcript of my radio program/podcast, with photos.
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Canada Jay
(Listen to the radio version here.)
In August 1979, my sister-in-law Jeanie and I took a road trip out West. We did a lot of camping in national parks, and WHOA! In the Big Horn Mountains, a LIFER alighted on my hand!! That was back when i...
Family Ties to Favorite Birds
(Listen to the radio version: Part 1 here and Part 2 here.)
Since I started producing “For the Birds” in 1986, I’ve always called any month with a blue moon “National Blue Jay Awareness Month.” Decades ago, I made a big deal about it whene...
Invitation to two Zoom programs
Back in May, I gave one of the keynote talks at the Biggest Week in American Birding in Ohio: “Fifty Years a Birder.” The Black Swamp Bird Observatory, who founded and organizes The Biggest Week, has asked me to present the same program as...
To Sin by Silence
(Listen to the radio version here.)
These words were misattributed to Abraham Lincoln. It was Edna Wheeler Wilcox who wrote them in her 1914 poem, Protest.
Twelve score and ten years ago this Fourth of July, a group of immigrants whose pa...
Get the Lead Out!
(Listen to the four-part the radio version here: Part 1—Lead in History, Part 2—How Hunters’ Lead Ammo Hurts People, Part 3—How Lead Ammo and Tackle Hurts Wildlife, Part 4—How the Trump Administration Is Moving Backward, Not Forward, on Lea...
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I'm author of more than a dozen books about birds. I've been producing "For the Birds," a radio program that also evolved into a podcast, since 1986.
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