Today The New York Times reports on the sad fate of Violet the red-tailed hawk, who nested on a window ledge at New York University last spring and raised a chick named Pip. The hawk cam is no longer active, but things have gotten bad for Violet, whose leg was previously infected by a wildlife band that appeared to cut off circulation (the band had been on her leg since 2006). Read More
Ah, spring, with nary a blossom or a bunny rabbit in sight. Instead we have live videos of nesting predators to stream into our cubicles. The hawks deliver freshly killed rats to each other and preen and have mean love affairs. It’s really cute.
The nicest, most domestic pair are the subject of the New Read More
“A fiercely competitive man, he is also an avid conservationist who freaked out when birds would fly into the glass windows of 85 Broad.” – Vanity Fair on Goldman Sachs’ ex-CEO Hank Paulson this January.
“As he speaks, a bird thuds straight into his glass-fronted office at North Colonnade, Canary Wharf. ‘Boy, that’s Read More
A stagnant economy may rank right up there with bad breath, ugly shoes and emotional neediness among the things that prevent people from reproducing. According to a Centers for Disease Control study reported by the Associated Press, the number of births shrank 2.7 percent in 2009, despite an increase in the population.
The CDC contemplated the idea that Read More
As Sam Anderson recently noted in his review of Jonathan Franzen’s new novel, Freedom, “Franzen still appears, every once in a while, in the guise of a public crank, fulminating about cell phones and SUVs and (most recently) the slaughter of migratory birds.”
That crank is Walter Berglund, the nature-loving main character Read More
