‘Painting Birds to Save Them’
Our oldest example of Roger Tory Peterson’s field guide work – a plate depicting various herons made in preparation for the original 1934 A Field Guide to the Birds – returned home today after spending the summer in the Painting Birds to Save Them exhibit of the Museum of American Bird Art at Mass Audubon. Peterson’s work plays a critical role in modern bird art and bird conservation and it will continue to do so through our work at RTPI.
Read MoreShooting Snowy Owls at airports
By now you have probably heard about this story but at 2:25AM on Monday, December 9 the New York Daily News posted an article detailing Port Authority ‘wildlife specialists’ that were now shooting and killing Snowy Owls at the New York City metro airports. Snowy Owls are currently in the middle of a massive irruption with sightings all over the Great Lakes and Atlantic Coast regions, a movement we thought could be coming even before it started in earnest. A Port Authority source told the NYDN that three Snowy Owls had already been killed with shotguns at JFK. They were added to...
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