Great Egret Christmas, Florida Barn Swallow Laramie, Wyoming Red-headed Woodpecker Skidaway, Georgia Red-tailed Hawk Raleigh, NC Yellow Warbler Magee Marsh, Ohio Common Nighthawk Bolivar Peninsula, Texas ‘I’iwi honeycreeper Big Island, Hawaii Blue-chested Hummingbird Mindo, Ecuador A Yellow Warbler shows off its brilliant springtime plumage on the edge of Lake Eerie in the midst of migraiton. A Common Nighthawk sets on a post in the Bolivar Flats in coastal Texas. A Barn Swallow comes in for a land in the farmlands of eastern Nebraska, its wings spread and talons posed for the barbed-wire fence. Red-tailed Hawk stares straight ahead, its iconic rusty-red tail, one of the most recognizable and widespread raptors in North America temp1 A Great Egret takes flight in a rockery in Florida fillled with herons, egrets, spoonbills and more.

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A cloud of Sanderlings swarm over the ocean off the coast of North Carolina.

Can this globe-trotting sandpiper survive? Only if we can unravel its secrets.

The Sanderling’s miraculous flight capabilities aren’t enough to overcome a changing coastal environment. The race to save this tiny sandpiper is on. Read More

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A DEEP READ: FROM OUR BOOK ON BIRD CONSERVATION

Researchers carry their lab-bred sparrows out the rescue mission.
Researchers arrive with boxes of lab-bred sparrows that are gradually introduced to the wild to rebuild nearly lost populations.

WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO SAVE AMERICA’S BIRDS?

A tiny Florida Grasshopper Sparrow pauses at the edge of a vast field. After years of experimentation, researchers crouch nearby, waiting to see if the sparrow will dive iforward and help save the most endangered species in the country.

You’ll find this and dozens of other valiant conservation stories in our book, “A Wing and a Prayer: The Race to Save our Vanishing Birds.” Thanks to Simon & Schuster, the first chapter is published here in full.

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Why Flying Lessons

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This website is about what we can learn from the birds around us. Some of the lessons are obvious, such as the way birds can be a barometer of environmental changes. Others are more subtle, like the way you, as an observer, have to adapt to navigate the world in which birds operate.

We travel much of the year, writing about and photographing birds – including our book for Simon & Schuster titled “A Wing and a Prayer: The Race to Save our Vanishing Birds” – as a way to celebrate a captivating element of nature.