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The photo above is from a pine forest at Rutgers Gardens. This pine forest seems to be the work of gardeners rather than nature alone since the trees are planted in strict rows. As a result, walking through it feels like walking through a series of...
Feet of a Blue-footed Booby / Photo by ex magician
Bird and birding news
Brown-necked Ravens have been observed to hunt cooperatively. When they spot a lizard, two ravens block the entrance to the lizard's burrow while the other birds move in for the...
Yesterday BirdsEye, a new birding application, was released into the iTunes App Store. To date, mobile applications for birding have focused on the problem of bird identification in the field. Mobile apps have some advantages over traditional field...
Thanks to Bora Zivkovic for selecting my post on raptor talons as the PLoS ONE Blog Pick of the Month for November. Unlike many academic publications, the PLoS family of journals are open access and thus are easier for bloggers to read and write about...
A DC Birding Blog is an excellent source of pertinent news and observations from a talented birder, naturalist, and writer based along the Atlantic seaboard. A particular favorite of mine are the regular "Loose Feathers" news and views round-up posts.
