Birds, beers, basketball, soccer. Into birding before it was cool. Digital Comms, ABA. American Birding Podcast host. Author of bird books. Posts mine. he/him
Thinking of that time 10 years ago when a Mink just stopped hunting crawdads and stared at me for like 1 minute (before returning to hunting crawdads).
Novelist Robert Cantwell was a frequent contributor to Sports Illustrated from the 50s through the 70s.
He frequently wrote about birds and birding, including this epic 1978 piece about searching for Horned Guan in Mexico.
Imagine, birding in Sports Illustrated.
Used to do this on the other site so I'll do it here too, but the Apple Podcast Nature category is an absolute joke. How is half the top 10 about freaking Bigfoot?
The Survivor 45 logo features Brown Pelicans but the closest Brown Pelicans to Fiji, where the series is filmed, are on the west coast of South America many thousands of miles away.
One of the coolest birding and nature experiences I ever had was touring southern and western Uganda a few years ago. It breaks my heart to see the virulent anti-gay efforts there undermine the opportunities for an exceptional ecotourism industry.
