Ladies and gentlemen, the Bronx is blooming - WFAA
Despite its urban image, the Bronx has 7,000 acres of park land, about 25 percent of its total area. In addition to Yankee Stadium and the Bronx Zoo, the borough's green spaces include the New York Botanical Garden; a 19th century garden overlooking ...
No news shortage in conservation world - Lake Sun Leader
When you keep tabs on the world of conservation for a living, when you do your level best to hold public officials and others accountable for the decisions they make, sometimes one's desk runneth over. With information for stories. With notebooks ...
Greenheads arrive at refuge, right on time - Newburyport Daily News
PLUM ISLAND — It's a humid, summer day in July on Plum Island. A cool breeze cuts through the thick air, birds dive in and out of marshes, a family unloads a car of children for a day in the sun. With shorts, T-shirts and sandals, you can tell ...
Seeing nature in the raw is part of birding - AZCentral.com
If you bird long enough, and if you're not living under marmalade skies, sooner or later you'll be confronted by the reality of nature. Nature in the raw. And neither nature nor I will apologize for that reality. The eagle sweeps in out of the fog on ...
A Tango with Marlon Brando? No, this is Maria Schneider the composer - Times Online
Let’s get one thing clear from the start. The Maria Schneider rapidly becoming America’s most acclaimed big-band composer, and the one who is to appear in London on July 9, did not star in Last Tango in Paris. According to Schneider the composer ...
Use your computer to beef up birding skills - Miami Herald
Bird watching's fun but sometimes it can be pretty frustrating. My kids gave me an interactive CD-ROM, "Guide to Birds of North America," for Father's Day. It identifies 927 birds and has 2,700 photos. The neat thing is that you can call up one bird ...
N.Y.'s Seaway Trail a top-notch birding region - MSNBC
HILTON, N.Y. - Greg Lawrence crashed through the underbrush, eyes wide, binoculars swinging from his neck. "Worm-eating Warbler! Worm-eating Warbler! That's a lifer for me," he called to the group of birders he was leading on a woodland trek near ...
'Central Park in the Dark' and 'Microcosm' - International Herald Tribune
Central Park in the Dark More Mysteries of Urban Wildlife By Marie Winn 304 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $25. In her charming 1998 book, "Red-Tails in Love," Marie Winn chronicled the story of Pale Male, a red-tailed hawk who made his home in the ...
A Night Stalker in the Center of Manhattan, Spying on Owls and Moths - New York Times
In her charming 1998 book, “Red-Tails in Love,” Marie Winn chronicled the story of Pale Male, a red-tailed hawk who made his home in the heart of New York City, romancing a series of mates over the years and siring nearly two dozen offspring from ...
Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden: Intense birding habitat - Minneapolis Star Tribune
Theodore Wirth Park offers more than 600 acres of highly varied birding habitat just west of downtown Minneapolis. It's at its best in the Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden, a rolling landscape offering compact and intense birding. Two-thirds of a mile ...
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