The Loon Center

Grassland birds such as the Bobolink and Eastern Meadowlark are declining throughout their ranges. In this talk we review the history and ecology of these species, with a focus on New Hampshire and the Northeast U.S., then shift to the conservation challenges they face and some of the things people can do to overcome these threats.

Join Becky Suomala on a boat trip from Santiago, Chile around Cape Horn to Buenos Aires. In addition to seabirding for albatross and the other pelagic species in southern waters, there were landbird stops in Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay. One of the highlights was a visit to a penguin colony on the Falkland Islands. See some of the […]

Returning North with the Spring: Retracing the Journey of Naturalist Edwin Way Teale In 1947, Edwin Way Teale, the most popular naturalist in the decade between Aldo Leopold and Rachel Carson, followed the progress of spring over four months from the Everglades to the summit of Mount Washington. His best-selling book, North with the Spring, […]