January 1, 2008 | Dr. Jeff Wells
It's still snowing here in Maine as we usher in the first day of 2008. There is so much snow that birders here in Maine have now started keeping snowshoe and ski bird lists. We haven't had snow like...
November 28, 2007 | Dr. Jeff Wells
A new scientifically-derived list of 178 endangered and threatened North American bird species released today from Audubon and the American Bird Conservancy includes at least 60 species that occur...
November 1, 2007 | Dr. Jeff Wells
Today (Thursday, 11/1) I will have the pleasure of talking to Larry Meiller of Wisconsin Public Radio at 12:45 AM EST about bird conservation and the themes of our Bird Conservation:Share-the-secrets...
October 23, 2007 | Dr. Jeff Wells
We are awash in Boreal birds. Right now the eastern U.S. is filled with White-throated Sparrows, Winter Wrens, Yellow-rumped Warblers, Dark-eyed Juncos, Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers, and tens of...
September 19, 2007 | Dr. Jeff Wells
On Sunday (9/16), I had the pleasure of traveling to Damariscove Island - a small island off of Boothbay Harbor, Maine - with the Boothbay Region Land Trust and 50-60 other people.
August 15, 2007 | Dr. Jeff Wells
It is 9 pm on a mid-August Wednesday night. I sit on the porch of my house here in Maine. Stars speckle the dark sky above, a din of cricket sounds enveloping me.
It's not quiet but it is peaceful....
July 18, 2007 | Jeff Wells
Bird conservation needs heroes - as many as we can find - and fortunately we are finding more and more!
I wanted to start highlighting here in my blog some of the Boreal bird conservation heroes that...
June 18, 2007 | Dr. Jeff Wells
55% of Species in Audubon Report are Major Boreal Breeders
Evening GrosbeakImage © D. Faucher for Ducks Unlimited Canada
A few months back Audubon's Greg Butcher had mentioned to me that some...
June 8, 2007 | Dr. Jeff Wells
Last night on my way back from a Boreal bird presentation in New Hampshire, I stopped for a soda at a convenience store and overhead heard a loud "pweep". It was a Swainson's Thrush somewhere...
May 13, 2007 | Dr. Jeff Wells
Do you think that George Bush knows that he has Boreal birds on the grounds of the White House? Last week when my wife Allison and I were in Washington, D.C., we strolled past the President's leafy...
