Migration can be full of astonishing behaviors and spectacles for birdwatchers. One of the most extraordinary migration events takes place in England at the Norfolk RSPB site in Snettisham. Here, tens of thousands of waders and other shorebirds can be found on migration stopovers. That alone is reason to go there, as the mere volume of […]
Rookeries of large wading birds are bustling this time of year. Large birds nesting in very close quarters, with a background of odd noises of wading birds, and often punctuated by mating birds, fights, begging chicks and weird growling noises. In the southern US, there is likely to be an alligator or two in […]
Saltmarshes have long been in the way of “progress”. We’ve torn them out to plant crops, build houses, and drained them. Since they are designed to buffer the land behind them during periods of hurricanes or super high tide inundations, our changes have greatly diminished the beneficial effects we derive from them. And saltmarshes are the only […]