Laura's birding blog—usually a fleshed-out transcript of my radio program/podcast, with photos.
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Schrödinger’s Birds
(Listen to the radio version of Part 1": Passenger Pigeon and Carolina Parakeet here, and Part 2: Ivory-billed Woodpecker here.)
(In anticipation of a wonderful novel being released in November, this post focuses on a few birds on t...
So what DID we see in Florida?
Listen to the much shortened radio version here.
I may have missed seeing an American Flamingo or Roseate Spoonbill when I was in Florida this month, and technically, this was a family trip, not a birding one, but I saw plenty of wonderful...
Florida: the Exotic, the Tragic, and the Flamboyant
(Listen to the radio version here.)
On Friday, October 9, I flew to Florida to visit my firstborn son, Joe. Sometimes I still slip and call him Joey, and most of his friends call him Toast, but by any other name he’s just as fine a human b...
Ginormous Migration Day
(Listen to the radio version here.)
Last week, on September 30, Duluth birder Ezra Hosch reported thousands of warblers passing by his place on Park Point—he said they were averaging about 100 per minute. That same day, the counters at Haw...
Reflections on a Wall
(This post originally went out on Flag Day, 2023, before I had many subscribers. This year, it’s well past Flag Day, House Wrens have migrated a while ago, and robins are no longer singing. It’s also more than a month before Veterans’ Day,...
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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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