Conservation
The Species Numbers Game
When it comes to environmental and wildlife issues, it seems that the more alarming the statistics are, the more likely it is that they will command our attention and move us into action.
Good Nature Travel Blog
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Conservation
It’s Raining Birds
Instead of waking to falling snow as many of us did on New Year’s Day 2011, people in Beebe, Arkansas, rose to find thousands of birds—grackles, starlings and red-winged blackbirds—falling from the sky, dead. An aerial photo revealed that the carcasses fell within a one-mile stretch of Beebe.
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Travel Tales
The Natural Habitat of the Plastic Pink Flamingo
I thought of my father recently, as I was taking down our Christmas tree and wrapping up the decorations.
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Videos
Video: Flying through Forests as a Goshawk
Human beings have a number of common dream themes, and one of them is flying. We’ve probably all imagined a bird’s-eye view of one landscape or another. If you’ve ever wondered, however, what flying looks like from the eyes of some of the fastest raptors on earth, watch this BBC video.
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Conservation
Biodiversity, By Design
We humans have drained half the world’s wetlands and fully exploited or overexploited 75 percent of its fishing grounds.
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Nature & Wildlife
Birdy Bop
Once all that singing is done, some birds like to get down and boogie. Researchers who study animal intelligence say that birds’ ability to keep time to music is a major cognitive breakthrough — we think it’s just fun to see a cockatoo high-stepping to “Another One Bites the Dust”.