Crepuscular companion from my youth...
...how I miss having you around the house now! Back - waaay back - in the days when I was a suburban kid without much access to "nature" and no television (yes - imagine that kids, no TV!), I...

The remarkable story of the Himalayan Snow Partridge in Nevada
A Himalayan Snowcock (Tetraogallus himalayensis) in the Ruby Mountains in Nevada. Picture from www.BackpackingintheRubyMountains.com Via the American Birding Association comes a remarkable,...

The vast conspiracy behind the global warming hoax...
... is laid bare in 4 minutes by the atmospheric chemist (turned whistle-blower?) Rachel Pike in this TED talk! And, I mean, isn't it astonishing the lengths to which these thousands of scientists...

How do you not, in the wild, bite these people's faces off?
That was Jon Stewart asking Jane Goodall about her remarkable equanimity and balance in the face of extremism - from animal rights activists criticizing her birthday cake in this instance. It is...

Fresno Audubon talk tonight: Avian Ecology of Oak Woodlands
Fresno Audubon's series of public lectures, which unfortunately has become less frequent (going down from monthly to every other month!), returns this evening with a local ornithologist speaking...