Cowbirds: Villainous mobsters? Or falsely maligned native species?
Brown-headed Cowbirds ( Molothrus ater ) are notorious for their breeding system called "brood parasitism"-- they lay their eggs in the...
Stress Physiology in a Stressful World
While I was in graduate school, I fell very ill from what we ultimately determined to be issues with my adrenal glands, a pair of tiny...
What is #TenMinMerlin?
Yellow-rumped Warbler ("Butterbutt") in an urban Columbus (Ohio, USA) park, April 2025 Growing up as a young birder, I knew that I could...
Parakeet Dreams (unedited first draft)
The recent news on so-called "de-extinction" inspired me to consider what true de-extinction would actually look like, especially for...
