Unegonian Pat Johnston's Journey

Audubon speaks about the phenomenon in seemingly awestruck way, noting their power and magnitude while noting the birds’ formation as a natural wonder. A striking characteristic of his description is his

If there is a single attractive thing about Aberdeen, it would be the 98 square miles of surrounding estuaries, tidelands, and marshes that attract shorebirds by the hundreds of thousands. They come every April and May to rest and feed for the long trip north to their arctic and subarctic nesting areas. (165)

* Seven banded chickadees made up the ‘Class of 1937’ including bird #65290. (December, pg. 94)

The Hawaiian Duck is blessed with one of the best habitats in the world. It resides in the beautiful islands and the epitome of all beautiful islands known as Hawaii. They are mostly found in lowland wetlands, river valleys, and mountain streams. This works to this bird’s advantages. They mostly try to stay away from the more urban parts of Hawaii and stick to their usual wetland setting. However, there not much of these habitats around on the virtually miniature island of Hawaii, which makes this bird’s effort of trying to stick around, just that much harder. Its endangerment has a large part to do with the fact that you cannot find all of these elements in many places on the island of Hawaii. The Hawaiian duck’s habitat is a huge part of what this bird is and how it functions through its

When thinking of birds, visualizing them building their nests in cacti certainly isn't the first thing that comes to mind. In the book, The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver, metaphorically everyone is constantly building their nests in cacti, and evolving from their experiences. From living in attics to taking trips across the country with no destination, characters in this book don't live what society considers the “conventional American lifestyle.” Growing and thriving in unexpected and unusual places and ways is nothing but average throughout the book. Taylor, despite unorthodox living arrangements or lifestyle, shows how living things are able to find methods of growing and changing. From great change in location to change within

Chapter 11: Johns Hopkins gives their final settlement of $1.5 million. Although she feels that it does not make up for Josie’s life, she accepts it due to her lawyer’s advice and family’s wishes.

The current facts that we know are when John White was appointed by Sir Walter Raleigh as governor of Roanoke, and the colonists settled down, he had to return to England in 1587 leaving behind his daughter, wife, granddaughter, and the other settlers to get more supplies for the colony. When he returned the colonists were missing, all he found was the word Croatan on a tree and the letters CRO scratched into a tree trunk. When Smith returned to england for supplies a huge naval war between Spain and England and Queen Elizabeth ordered every available british ship to fight the Spanish armada. As of today the Lost Colony is the oldest unsolved mystery in American history. What we know of Smith’s early career is that he joined the christian

Kelly, Joseph. The Seagull Reader - Stories. 2nd ed. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2008. 354-72. Print.

In Joanna Klein’s, a science journalist, short argumentative essay, “A Birder’s Heaven: Just Follow the Stench to the Landfill”, expresses, some of the best places to see birds are places most humans do not want to go. Klein supports this claim by using humor, situational irony, and overstatements. Klein’s purpose is to expose the irony in nature, exposing the amount of beautiful birds in a landfill. Through the piece, Klein depolopes a a tone of optimistic tone for nature loving adults. She uses this tone to reflect back on the theme by introducing an area many of these nature loving people may not know about.

Colorado, known for the Rocky Mountains, is a gorgeous place to be. The rectangular state rich with wildlife, covers 104,185 square miles. In the black timber, it is dark and silent, not a sound to be heard. The thick pine trees block out most of the sunlight, only to see about seventy-five yards. The terrain is brutal, almost straight up and down, but the elk love it because it is a challenge for hunters to see them. As I walk my favorite ridgeline in the black timber, I watch for the slightest movement and listen for the smallest crack. Watching thirteen-lined ground squirrels run around and chase each other can be humorous when they fall down from trees. My adrenaline pumps and heart races at a million miles per hour as I wait patiently

On Saturday February 4th, I took the tram ride exploring Circle B Bar Reserve. Susan was the tram driver; Nancy was the tour guide and volunteers John and his son were the spotters. We toured three ecosystems of the reserve: wetlands, oak hammock, and highland scrub. It was interesting to learn the history of how the area was once wetland and they paid ranchers to drain the area for cattle ranching. Years later the property was purchased by Polk County Commissioners and the Southwest Florida Management District as the area needed the wetland to filter the water system. As a result, the wetland has created a haven for birds and presently there are 230 plus species in the area and Circle B Bar Reserve has become one of the best places for

He tries to suppress the bluebird’s existence through means of denying it, using escapist techniques such as drinking, smoking and participation in prostitution to deter his mind from the presence. “there’s a bluebird in my heart that/wants to get out/but I pour whiskey on him and inhale/cigarette smoke/and the whores and the bartenders/and the grocery clerks/never know that/he’s/in there”

Severely restricted inside the barren cages, the birds are unable to engage in nearly any of their natural habits, including nesting, perching, walking, dust bathing, foraging, or even spreading their wings” (HSUS, 2009).

Wildlife ecology is a part of science that contains the studies of the wildlife organization that find ways to direct the wildlife populations for the well-being of all humans. The Buff-Bellied Hummingbird is part of this wildlife. Hummingbirds are the most specialized avian nectarivores and are responsible for pollinating up to 15% of the angiosperms in the Neotropic. The Buff- Bellied Hummingbird is well known in the Rio Grande Valley. Within this essay information will be learned on habitat and range, niche and relationships within other organisms, competitions, predator/prey and symbiotic. Along with its environmental interactions within human beings.

During the morning at Mesa Verde, the pinyon jay and the Steller jay perch on the branches of the Colorado pinyon pine or Utah juniper that are found all throughout the woodlands. They sit there motionless, waiting and watching for little insects to wake up and start moving around on the ground. The famished birds are ready to glide down at any moment from the branch and devour food. As the birds grow tiresome of waiting for insects to wake up, they pick up little seeds that fall out of cones that look like little brown roses and grow on the pinyon pine. The birds nibble on the little green juniper berries that scatter the ground and the tree like polka dots. While the jays are collecting seeds and berries, black-billed magpies pass over them high in the sky. They plummet down to collect twigs and needles from the pine or junipers.