Of eiders and islands
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Dispatches from two weeks on a seabird nesting island off the coast of Maine.
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Long Live the King of the Meadow
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Today I published a 39-tweet story over the course of 6 hours: a day in the life of a meadowbird researcher in the Netherlands. Here it is fully assembled.
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/Pine Point, Maine
Airborne Identity
/California or the Yukon? You can use DNA from a single feather to find out where a migrating bird hails from, and where it stops along the way (I wrote a story about this for Living Bird Magazine).
Wilson's Warbler, the star of this study. Drawn in 2008 for Acadia Birding Festival.
Beware of Falling Clams
/Two gulls chasing each other this morning, fighting over a quahog. First they almost collide with my head, then they drop the clam on me.