Birds & Words #12

The final installment of 2018’s science and art stories on birds.

Birds & Words #11

November’s sampling of stories on bird science, and some stunning art.

This moth supplements its diet with bird tears

It probably gets its fix of salt from those tears.

Birds & Words #6

June’s edition of my newsletter featuring seabirds, sparrows, swifts, and more.

Little auks slurp like fish

They eat almost 60,000 prey in a day. And can store over 4,000 in their food pouch at one time.

When predator turns prey

In a bizarre interaction between a frog and an insect, it’s the frog that ends up as food.

Birds & Words #5

The 5th round-up of stories from the world of birds.