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It's tough to be a bird

October 25, 2024 - On a morning stroll through midtown Atlanta with my wife, I started noticing something -- dead birds. The first was a Ye...
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Short-billed Dowitchers in decline

August 07, 2023 - This is a species that doesn’t get much attention from conservationists and are usually just checked off by birders who...
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Reddish Egret

March 12, 2023 - A great friend, Rich Paul, was an authority on Reddish Egrets. As manager of the National Audubon Society’s Florida Coas...
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Discovering shorebirds in The Bahamas

March 02, 2023 - It's February and I feel like I should be in The Bahamas. For years I spent several weeks each year in The Bahamas, ofte...
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Trembling with delight

June 12, 2018 - My hands were almost trembling with delight as I held for the first time a Semipalmated Sandpiper. Seconds earlier I car...
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Skimmers

July 27, 2016 - Ornithologists Drs. Joanna Burger and Michael Gochfeld wrote of Black Skimmers in their landmark book -- The Black Skimm...
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Carolina Pelicans

July 13, 2016 - In 1929 a Federal Conservation Agent named William L. Birsch traveled to a small island called Royal Shoal in Pamlico So...
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Hatching time for American Oystercatchers

June 11, 2016 - On a sandy spit on one of my favorite beaches there is a wonderful nesting area for shorebirds, terns and Black Skimmers...
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Every Banded Bird has a Story

May 02, 2016 - I went to a local, uninhabitedl beach this weekend to photograph Red Knots and anything else that happened to present an...
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With Blind Faith

April 16, 2016 - I had the pleasure of attending the 13th annual Power of Flight meeting this week, held in St. Simons Island, GA. The me...
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Learning more about Piping Plovers

April 05, 2016 - On a remote cay of sand and rock off the northern end of Andros, The Bahamas, in the newly established Joulter Cays Nati...
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Searching for Shorebirds

March 29, 2016 - For the past 5 years I have been working in The Bahamas to map the distribution and abundance of shorebirds across the c...
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Great Egrets on the Cape Fear

March 13, 2016 - Great Egrets gather by the hundreds on a small island in the lower Cape Fear River. They’ve returned in March as they ha...
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