Birdwatchradio.com casts program #9: If you haven’t heard one of Birdwatchradio.com’s podcasts it is definately time. September 10th’s episode celebrates Birdwatcher’s Digests’ 30th year and interviews Bill Thompson III, the magazine’s editor. Host Steve Moore also shares a wonderful story about his latest life bird. We reviewed Birdwatchradio.com last February and they are doing a
Continue reading C-Notes #5 – Birdwatchradio Number 9, A Georgia Festival and Picking It Up!
American Woodcock Conservation in Pennsylvania: Wildlife officials in Pennsylvania are creating over 783,000 acres of new habitat to help increase American Woodcock populations to what they were in the 1970s. Also, the new conservation plan is designed to set up 12 demonstration areas to help officials highlight how habitat management can improve populations for a
Farm to Floodplain: For over 80 years, farmland at Emiquon in Illinois has been manipulated to remain dry. In 2007, the Nature Conservancy shut down pumps turning 7100 acres into a wetland that attracts thousands of waterfowl and Bald Eagles. Read more about this project in Jason’s Journal (Jason is the Deputy Director of the
Continue reading C-Notes #3 – Illinois Land Acquisitions and Awards
Lost Scenes of Winged Migration: The Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Macaulay Library will be archiving some of the 200 hours of film from the spectacular documentary of Winged Migration. Winged Migration helps viewers fall in love with birds, spurring the will to conserve them. New Flickr photo group for eBird – If you have seen
Continue reading C-Notes #2 – Lost Scenes, eBird and Wintering Thrushes
Welcome to the first edition of C-Notes, an ongoing series designed to pull together 2-3 small tidbits of important bird conservation issues. Do it for Dominic The Small African Fellowship for Conservation, a project conceived by 10,000 Birds, wants to get the word out about a young Kenyan conservationist named Dominic who is working to
Continue reading C-Notes #1 – Kenyan Conservation, A New Bird, and Help for a Wren
