Doubting Finches
by Scott Edward Anderson The house finch nest in my porch light has a curious architecture, made entirely of found things: dried seed heads from last year’s col...
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Spokesbirds for the Spokesbirds
by Katie Fallon I sat cross-legged on the pea-gravel floor of the enclosure, as still as stone, half of a dead mouse resting in my outstretched palm. Lew th...
Brave Bird
by Isaac Yuen While doing laps at the pool one day, I came to the conclusion that the penguin is the most courageous and admirable of birds, because swimming is...
Warts and All
by Jessica Groenendijk I am passionate about cats. I admire their fluid grace and their shape pleases me. Not for me the slavish neediness of dogs, I prefer the...
Bees, our Much-needed Friends
by Gill McEvoy It is quite common to see bumble bees out foraging quite late in the evening, even in cooler weather, long after the honey bee has retired to the...
Prairie Dog
by Tricia Orr In your red clay chamber, you lift your velvet pincushion of an ear – what do you hear? Biologists have recorded you. If I wear blue your alarm ca...
Eavesdropping on Nature
by Amy Fletcher Only the mountain has lived long enough to listen objectively to the howl of a wolf. – Aldo Leopold, 1949 The twentieth century could be exubera...