Parks are limited and social distancing is the rule, but birds are still flying. They’re everywhere right now, whether returning from far off winter homes or just coming out to find a mate. And you don’t need to travel to somewhere in the country to see them. Just look up. “Actually, the odds are pretty high that you’ll see some good birds right in downtown Providence.” Dan Berard is a […]
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3 Comments NOTE: This story originally appeared in RI Central Newspapers 6/6/19. David Gregg, executive director of the Rhode Island Natural History Survey (RINHS) sits under a canopy at a long table sorting ants. There are perhaps a dozen or so that he has recently collected contained in a tiny bottle. He separates them before handing them off to an ant expert who will do the job of telling the difference between […]
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5 Comments It’s dusk. A dirt parking lot (well, more like a clearing of dirt) retains a few cars, and further back there is a small circle of people sporting binoculars. They wear the full palette of the bird watcher’s color wheel: khaki, tattered khaki, dirty khaki, spanking new khaki, and new khaki stressed to look old. (We are nothing if not consistent.) A bearded young man in the circle speaks to […]
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