Laura's birding blog—usually a fleshed-out transcript of my radio program/podcast, with photos.
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Surprising Discovery about My Female Banded Pileated Woodpecker
(Listen to the radio version here.)
Ever since a female Pileated Woodpecker wearing a leg band appeared in my yard on September 14, I’ve been taking photo after photo of her, trying to tease out the band number. I’ve been calling her BG fo...
Detaining Migrants Here in Duluth
(Listen to the radio version here.)
This migrant Northern Saw-whet Owl was detained temporarily at Hawk Ridge Bird Observatory last October.
At this very moment, migrants are flooding through the natural world, a world that has no politi...
My First Planned-Out Birding Trip
(Listen to the radio version of Part 1 here and Part 2 here.)
During our 5 years in Madison, Russ was immersed in coursework and research, working on his Ph.D. and then a post-doc. This gave me almost every weekend to head out, near and fa...
The Year My Universe Turned Upside Down
(Listen to the radio version here.)
From the time I was three or four years old, I yearned to be a real, official birdwatcher. My first role model was a TV character named Pamela Livingtone, portrayed by Nancy Kulp, on The Bob Cummings Sho...
Piping Plovers Nest on Wisconsin Point!
(Listen to the radio version here.)
Wisconsin Point’s nesting Piping Plovers. Photo by Mikayla Erickson/St. Louis River Alliance.
At the end of August, several friends sent me a wonderful news story from the St. Louis River Alliance and f...
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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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