This Week in Birding
Bob Dolgan, Emily, Bill Davison, Isoo O'Brien, Kelly BallEverything you need to know about birds.
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“Every [bird] sings his own song”
Schuyler Mathews didn’t have to go into the woods and attempt to translate bird songs into musical notation, but he did. For years. Mathews spent summers in the wilds of northern New Hampshire, in the shadow of Cannon Mountain, just to try...
'Bright sulphur-yellow knickerbockers!' and other observations
Thanks to everyone for subscribing to this newsletter. TWiB has just reached a milestone—3,000 subscribers including 128 paid subscribers—and I’m grateful to all of you for keeping up with my posts and for your interest in birds.
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'That was weird'
Photo by Diane Helentjaris on Unsplash
I was at an event recently that shall go nameless. It was an interesting mix of birders and non-birders. Toward the end of the event, a guy started chatting on his way out the door. “That was weird,”...
Appreciating Imani: A Piping Plover survivor
The 2021 breeding season was a tough one for Piping Plovers Monty and Rose. They lost their first clutch of four eggs to a skunk attack, which meant that nesting would be delayed for several weeks. They then re-located to a part of the beac...
In defense of cowbirds
A fledgling Brown-headed Cowbird, left, begs for food from a Red-eyed Vireo in northern Minnesota.
This disreputable character, parasitic in habit and degenerate in all moral instinct, gets its name through its fondness for bovine society,...
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I make documentaries about birds and write a weekly Substack. Based in Chicago.
Emily is a nature, sustainability, and climate change writer.
I’m a writer, wildlife photographer, biologist, farmer, and agroforester, on a joyful journey to share my love of nature with others.
Isoo O'Brien is an Evanston native and student at Kenyon College. An avid birder since age 9, Isoo leads field trips for local organizations and currently holds Cook County's big year record at 288 species.
An Ohio native, Kelly Ball is a freelance writer based in Cape May, NJ.
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