July 2007

We found an interesting article on Surfbird News about if the last Ivory-billed Woodpeckers should be collected for science - meaning killed and preserved as a specimen. The article brings up several points of why this should not be done. Here are two of them:

Genetic Diversity - in a small population every individual matters in [...]

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I can’t remember when we signed up for Birding Pal but it wasn’t that long ago. Birding Pal is a cool site that simply put is a way for out of town birders to find other birders to go birding with. A little over a week ago I was contacted by a birder from San [...]

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The Birdfreak team is working on finding all of the best birding places within Winnebago County, Illinois to create an online birding guide.

Today was spent exploring Anna Page Park in Rockford, Illinois. On the NCIOS blog we found out from another birder, Dan Williams that there were Henslow’s Sparrows, Yellow-billed Cuckoos, and [...]

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It was about this time last year that our concept of Birdfreak began. We were tossing around ideas for a Website name and discovered that birdfreak.com was available. However, this actually wasn’t our first choice. Not that we aren’t birdfreaks - the thousands of pictures, hundreds of magazines, and nearly constant effort to find birds [...]

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Alexander Wilson was born July 6, 1766, in Scotland. It became his goal to publish illustrations of North American birds. He was a pioneer and the founder of American ornithology.

Photo - Encyclopedia Britannica
In 1808 he published the first volume of American Ornithology. He sold subscriptions for his work [...]

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