Preserve saves a butterfly — and lots of birds, too
One of the world’s last inland pine barrens — home to an endangered butterfly — is also an important site for birds of conservation concern.
Cheryl Lyn Dybas
Cheryl Lyn Dybas is an ecologist and science journalist and a Fellow of the International League of Conservation Writers. She often writes about birds and their habitats. Her work has appeared in such publications as Canadian Geographic, Ocean Geographic, Scientific American, and BBC Wildlife. She has been a featured speaker on science journalism and conservation biology, and serves on the committees of several international scientific societies.
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New hope for Red Knots
Red Knots received good news when pharmaceutical companies announced they would rely less on horseshoe crab blood for medical testing.
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron adjusts its migration pattern to fiddler crabs
As spring arrives earlier each year, Yellow-crowned Night-Herons mysteriously adjust the timing of their return to the emergence of fiddler crabs.
Northern Saw-whet Owl: Tiny traveler
Why the best time for recording Northern Saw-whet Owls along the shore of Lake Superior is spring, not fall
129. Pipeline Rapids, Richmond, Virginia
In Downtown Richmond, walk along a catwalk atop a water pipe to see one of the only urban Great Blue Heron rookeries in the country.