Avids Go In Depth: August 2024
The newly restarted Avid Birders explored the Crown City Wildlife Area.
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Work Trip: Blackhand Gorge
Blackhand Gorge – Trail work October 12, 9 am – 3 pm Blackhand Gorge is famous for its geological features, history, and legends. Here you will see impressive sandstone cliffs, oak-hickory mature wood, prehistoric petroglyphs, remnants of Ohio & Erie Canal, old quarries, bluff overlooking the Licking River, and much more. A four-mile bike trail crosses
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Remembering Margaret Morse Nice
June 26, 2024, marked the 50th anniversary of the passing of Margaret Morse Nice, one of the true pioneers of field research in ornithology — and a “patron saint” for Columbus Audubon. Nice did much of her most important research work right here in Columbus; her monumental project was the intense study of the behavior
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Braver Birds Post-Pandemic
Birds living at UCLA were less afraid of humans after the pandemic closure This article reprinted here by courtesy of the author: Holly Ober, UCLA When UCLA shifted to remote instruction during the early days of COVID-19, the campus was much less populated — but it wasn’t totally empty. Several species of animals continued to
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Wind Turbines: Bird/Bat Deaths Vary Seasonally
Bird and bat fatalities at wind turbines increase during seasonal migrations – information which could aid their protection, according to a new study. While there have been local and regional studies on bird and bat deaths caused by wind turbines, this study looks at data from 248 wind turbine facilities across the United States—almost 30
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