04/11/2013 - What's Involved in Getting Involved: Part III :: Comments (4)
Laura Erickson finishes her trilogy on her attempt to stop the construction of a massive communications tower, and offers some thoughts on what ABA members can do to help birds. READ MORE »
Blogger: LAURA ERICKSON
Location: Duluth, Minnesota
Website: www.lauraerickson.blogspot.com
Laura Erickson has been in love with birds since she was a small child. She started birding after she received binoculars and a field guide for Christmas in 1974. Since then, her philosophy of life has been that “no one should go through life listlessly,” and she’s devoted herself to promoting the love, understanding, and protection of birds. She’s served as science editor at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, rehabbed wild birds for over two decades, written five books about birds, contributed to Audubon, Birding, and BirdWatching magazine, and for the past 25 years has produced, as an unpaid volunteer for several community radio stations, a daily radio spot about birds podcast at http://web.me.com/chickadeewhisperer/FTB/Podcast/Podcast.html. Laura lives with an Eastern Screech-Owl licensed for education as well as her amazingly tolerant non-birder husband.
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12/11/2012 - What's Involved in Getting Involved: Part II (my successful fight against a cell phone tower) :: Comments (0)
On or about October 4, 1987, I learned that my area’s “Baby Bell” telecommunications company, U.S. West, was proposing to build a 300-foot guyed, lighted cell phone tower on Moose Mountain, a hill over which a great many raptors and songbirds fly just before reaching Hawk Ridge, in Duluth, Minnesota.... READ MORE »
On or about October 4, 1987, I learned that my area’s “Baby Bell” telecommunications company, U.S. West, was proposing to build a 300-foot guyed, lighted cell phone tower on Moose Mountain, a hill over which a great many raptors and songbirds fly just before reaching Hawk Ridge, in Duluth, Minnesota.... READ MORE »
11/03/2012 - What's Involved in Getting Involved: Part I (to be continued) :: Comments (0)
In 1988 and 1989, I fought against construction of what was to be a 300-foot, guyed, lighted cell-phone tower in view of and directly along the path of Duluth’s hawk and songbird migration flyway. This was six years before the American Bird Conservancy started, when cell phone technology was new,... READ MORE »
In 1988 and 1989, I fought against construction of what was to be a 300-foot, guyed, lighted cell-phone tower in view of and directly along the path of Duluth’s hawk and songbird migration flyway. This was six years before the American Bird Conservancy started, when cell phone technology was new,... READ MORE »
03/21/2012 - What is happening to Evening Grosbeaks? :: Comments (9)
Evening Grosbeak feeding on box elder seeds. In the summer of 1981, when my husband and I moved into our house in Duluth, Minnesota, Evening Grosbeaks instantly became woven into the fabric of my daily life. They were the first birds I heard calling in the trees as we lugged... READ MORE »
Evening Grosbeak feeding on box elder seeds. In the summer of 1981, when my husband and I moved into our house in Duluth, Minnesota, Evening Grosbeaks instantly became woven into the fabric of my daily life. They were the first birds I heard calling in the trees as we lugged... READ MORE »
01/11/2012 - Review: The Big Year DVD :: Comments (12)
Editor's Note: Would you like to help the ABA and get a FREE copy of the the DVD or Blu-ray of The Big Year? Details will be available soon. You can mail bigyear@aba.org to be notified the instant this offer goes live! On Friday, I got a sneak peek preview... READ MORE »
Editor's Note: Would you like to help the ABA and get a FREE copy of the the DVD or Blu-ray of The Big Year? Details will be available soon. You can mail bigyear@aba.org to be notified the instant this offer goes live! On Friday, I got a sneak peek preview... READ MORE »
12/15/2011 - After the Birding Interview :: Comments (1)
I was recently interviewed for a profile in the current issue of Birding, and now I'm an ABA blogger! This is all a great honor, but also very humbling and scary, because I know better birders than I who have yet to receive the same recognition. (You can read a... READ MORE »
I was recently interviewed for a profile in the current issue of Birding, and now I'm an ABA blogger! This is all a great honor, but also very humbling and scary, because I know better birders than I who have yet to receive the same recognition. (You can read a... READ MORE »
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