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Bird of Passage: November 2024
November 6, 2024
A bit of housekeeping: This newsletter is going to go on hiatus for December and January, but it will be back the first Wednesday in February. Thanks so much...
Bird of Passage: October 2024
October 2, 2024
Do you have bird feeders? I don’t (not seed feeders, at least), and to be honest, I’ve become a bit of a curmudgeon about them. About half the area of my...
Bird of Passage: September 2024
September 4, 2024
Quick bit of time-sensitive bird world news before we dive in: The Bird Union, the union of National Audubon Society staff, is going on strike August 10–12...
Bird of Passage: August 2024
August 7, 2024
I have a big project this month: I’m editing the text for the forthcoming new edition of the National Geographic guide to the birds of North America. This...
Bird of Passage: July 2024
July 3, 2024
Have you been enjoying this newsletter? I’d really love to grow my subscriber base, so please consider forwarding it to a friend who you think would like it...
Bird of Passage: June 2024
June 5, 2024
Recently I had one of those days where the number of things I’d read about the election and PFAS and microplastics and climate change hit some sort of...
Bird of Passage: May 2024
May 1, 2024
If you’ve read my book, you may remember the chapter on “moon-watching” as a method for gathering data on night-migrating birds and the small group of...
Bird of Passage: April 2024
April 3, 2024
First, a quick housekeeping note: If this month's email looks a bit different, it's because I've moved from Substack to another email platform called...
Bird of Passage: March 2024
March 6, 2024
February was rough. But I mean, is February ever not rough? I firmly believe that it’s the shortest month of the year because if it were any longer, we...
Bird of Passage: February 2024
February 7, 2024
Sometimes I feel sheepish about the fact that I’m not really as serious of a birder as people seem to expect me to be, based on the fact that I write about...
Bird of Passage: January 2024
January 3, 2024
What are your new year’s birding rituals or resolutions? A few years ago a birding friend (hi, Sarah) shared with me that she and her husband watch the movie...
Bird of Passage: December 2023
December 6, 2023
Still looking for the perfect holiday gift for your aunt with the backyard birdfeeder or your uncle who’s really into World War II and the space race? My...
Bird of Passage: November 2023
November 1, 2023
Hello and welcome to my shiny new Substack! (Still kind of can’t believe I’m doing this.) Going forward, I plan to open each month’s newsletter with a brief...
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