Birds
New Study: 6.8 Million Annual Bird Deaths at Communications Towers in N. America
An Estimate of Avian Mortality at Communication Towers in the United States and Canada News worth noting. What’s your feedback on the study, methods, or results? If the estimate seems representative, what impact do you think this will have on North American bird populations over time, especially as the number of cell phone towers increases? [...]
My next Birding Adventure is….”Birding Adventures TV”
By the time you read this, I’ll be either 1) rubbing my eyes at 4 am for a morning of filming in the Tandayapa Valley of Ecuador. 2) falling onto my knees with awe at a the sight of yet another radiant tanager 3) sedating myself with pico sours in order to quell this thing [...]
Animated Short: The Coffee Contradiction
At the risk of ‘grinding’ the point too finely, today’s animated short explores some familiar contradictions. The Coffee Contradictionby: lkamms MANY thanks to Paul Baicich, who offered up this fitting theme and even contributed to an early sketch of the script. Keep the ideas coming! Send them privately laurakamms@gmail.com. If I use your idea, you’ll [...]
Family Travel: Good for Kids, and the Soul
I have been fortunate enough to do a lot of nature travel compared to your typical middle-aged mother with two boys to raise. I’ve chased feisty Red-capped Manakins in Belize, the critically endangered Honduran Emerald in Honduras, Aplomado Falcons in coastal Texas, Chestnut-collared Longspurs in Rocky Mountain National Park, and traversed miles of natural near-shore [...]
Animated Short: Restraint – The Yin & Yang of Birding
It’s Friday. That time again. In my latest short, Charlotte calms the monster in this socially maladjusted egghead. With apologies to all socially maladjusted eggheads, ‘cuz you’re good people, too. Do you sense, like I do, that the intentional and exaggerated stereotypes portrayed in this short seem to be a fading memory of the past. [...]
Animated Short: There it is! Over there!
It’s Friday! Time for another animated short. Chasing Rare Birds with the Directionally Challenged Have you ever been birding with someone who doesn’t know how to describe the location of a bird-and simply CAN’T put you on it? Then this short is for you. Watch and weep. There it is. Over there!by: lkamms produced by [...]
Animated Short: Let’s Get Our Larophilia On, Shall We?
Let's Get Our Larophilia On, Shall We?by: lkamms
EEK! Me happy as tragically introverted writer
I’m feeling a bit like a Flame Bowerbird this morning for being included in Robert “the Idaho Birder” Mortensen birder profile series. Check it out. Now you can learn all you ever wanted to know about me and more. Maybe that’s why I’m feeling flush…Me no like spotlight. Me happy as tragically introverted writer. And you better [...]
SE Texas: Aplomado Falcons and More (long version)
An abbreviated version of this article was first published on the Audubon Guides blog, but some innocent snaffus have prevented the article from being published in its entirety. Until that gets ironed out after or during the holidays, I am publishing the full version with more photos here – LMK Just a few weeks ago, [...]
Confessions of a Reluctant Gull Chaser
In a stuffy boardroom on a remote Alaskan atoll, a dozen elite birders sit behind a wall full of monitors, each broadcasting the birding behavior of lesser known birders such as me. These experts sit, their pens poised over the Good Birder Surveys, ready to tick off “Yes” or “No” on the “Will attempt gulling” line on my sheet.
RGV: Birding Estero Llano Grande
Okay, now that I’ve cleared introductions 1 and 2 from my brain, let me tell you a bit about Estero Llano Grande State Park. Estero Llano Grande State Park is one of nine designated World Birding Centers in the Texas state park system, and one of the most convenient and productive place to bird during any [...]
