I'm in Santa Barbara, enjoying the abundant birds on campus and the papers today about the Ivory-billed Woodpecker. I've posted my thoughts, three of the abstracts, and a link to the Cornell site where the recordings are now available for public scrutiny on my blog at http://birderblog.com/
Laura Erickson Duluth, MN Staff Ornithologist Binoculars.com www.birderblog.com There is symbolic as well as actual beauty in the migration of birds. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature--the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after the winter. --Rachel Carson