A lake in Quebec’s Boreal Forest
Credit: Garth Lenz
This post will be a little more news-oriented than bird-oriented, but given the massive scale of the protection I think its importance to birds should be self-evident. I also wanted to mention some of the various groups we have been working with to protect the Boreal Forest that have [...]

Triangle Lake, from Jeff’s trip on the Albany River
Credit: Jeff Wells
It seems as if Boreal birds have really stepped into the spotlight recently. It started with the Audubon report that found many birds are wintering further north as a result of warming temperatures, only reemphasizing the importance of the Boreal. Boreal birds are also the [...]

While scanning the flocks for Pine Siskins at my feeder this winter (I also blogged about Siskins back in October), I spotted an oddly distinctive one.   I studied it closely, wondering at first if it could be a Eurasian Siskin which would be an exceptional rarity.  I took lots of photos and video of the bird [...]

This one will be a short post, but I thought I would share some videos I took last Sunday afteroon.
As spring slowly sets in and the temperatures around Maine rise, birds long gone for the winter have started reappearing, including the Red-winged Blackbird. These were my first of 2009:

Also, check out this small group of Turkey Vultures, another first [...]

Can you guess where this Boreal bird has spent the winter?

Credit: Jeff Wells
The bird, a Common Goldeneye.
A hint:

Credit: Jeff Wells
Watch this video to find out if you are right:

Credit: Jeff Wells
If you couldn’t tell from the video, the answer was Seattle, where I spent a few days this week for a conference…

Hi all,
I thought I would share with you a truly wonderful opportunity to learn about the devastating environmental impacts of Canada’s tar sands, a unique oil extraction technique that devastates the Boreal Forest.
On March 16 – 20, 2009 Andrew Nikiforuk’s book Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent will be offered for FREE [...]

 
Credit: Kirk Rogers
I’m a bit late in reporting on this year’s Matinicus Island Christmas Bird Count since we flew out and did the count on January 6th but above and below are some photos provided by Kirk Rogers who did the count with me again this year (see last year’s blog entry for more on [...]

A couple of blog posts ago I had predicted that the first spring migrant Turkey Vultures would arrive in Maine where I live by about Feb. 14-15. I left about that time for vacation but before I left I recorded an interview with Maine Public Radio about Audubon’s recent report on how the ranges of [...]