It's unusual for a birder to visit the Davis Mountains in West Texas in November, but I like it. The grasslands are alive with Horned Larks, Lark Buntings, longspurs, and sparrows settling in for the...
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This dictionary contains the bird names used by Lewis and Clark in their expedition journals in alphabetical order. Each bird name is accompanied with the date of usage—usually the initial, or a...
Weyburn, Saskatchewan, has a population of 8,000 people and services wheat growers, stockmen, and roughnecks drilling for medium oil. We observed scores of hawks in the ditches, on power poles, in...
Birds, beetles, and dragonflies all have something in common with kites, sailboats, and jet jets. Flying a kite can help you learn how hawks hunt near cliffs. If you sail against the wind, you'll...
Lieutenant John Richardson of the British Royal Navy, who was engaged in two fruitless efforts to reach the North Pole, captured a little falcon. Richardson was stationed in Fort Carlton,...
Nome, formerly known as one of Alaska's roughest communities, still lives up to its name. Claim jumpers, unscrupulous judges, and light-fingered saloon dollies, on the other hand, are a thing of the...