From the Field: Saving Piping Plovers

By Keepers Cody Sowers and Kim Klosterman Over the last few weeks, Team Bird has been involved in helping the Great Lakes piping plover project in Northern Michigan. What’s a piping plover? The Great [...]

The Great Backyard Bird Count 

In a recent interview, writer and wildlife biologist Drew Lanham described an experience of observing cardinals, stating, “Watching a red bird as the sun [went] down on a day that still had a little [...]

Conservation Responsibility

It was on this day in 1918 that the very last Carolina Parakeet, “Inca,” died. Carolina parakeets were the only endemic parrots of North America, and they were quite abundant all over the eastern and [...]