Researchers at Western University's Advanced Facility for Avian Research explore how much songbirds’ bodies can change to fly higher when migrating. Read the full story by Julia Zarankin here🐦:
canadiangeographic.ca/articles/study…

It’s National Go Birding Day! Tools like eBird & Merlin Bird ID make finding and identifying birds easier than ever. There’s never been a better time to be a birder. Here’s my story on falling in love with birds in the golden age of birding for Scientific American scientificamerican.com/article/we-are…

Tuesday morning writing advice from my reread of Stephen King’s ON WRITING, as I settle into the desk: “Sometimes you have to go on when you don't feel like it, and sometimes you're doing good work when it feels like all you're managing is to shovel shit from a sitting position.”

Who the hell is out there teaching people to say 'MEM-wahhhhh' for memoir? Like, that's not even close to French, if that's what you're going for. This pronunciation exists at the precise intersection of pretentious and wrong.

PRESS RELEASE: Studies reveal MegaSpa is the wrong project in the context of our climate emergency mailchi.mp/9b3612642fa6/p… #topoli #onpoli #Earthday2024 #ClimateEmergency #EarthDay

Happy Earth Day! In another 15 days my next book, The Birds That Audubon Missed, will be published by Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster on May 7. I'm grateful to the renowned artist/ornithologist David Sibley for his generous and insightful comments about the book.

Birds are, literally, astonishing.

So excited to be a finalist for a Degroot Foundation Courage to Write Grant! degrootfoundation.org/julia-zarankin/

Just dropped off a message and a copy of the ⁦Ontario Place for All ©⁩ Better Idea ⁦Therme Group⁩ Global HQ in Vienna. With opposition mounting, now is the time for Therme to find a better location. Retweet to Therme, if you agree.

Last night, University of Guelph Senate, I spoke against the abolition of the BA Major in Spanish/Hispanic Studies. Most Senate resolutions pass w/ 95%+ support; my arguments reduced support for getting rid of Spanish to 50-51%. Plse RT if you support universities having Spanish programs!

'Most of the work in this poetry collection was written after Feb. 24, 2022 in both Ukrainian and English.'

#2024GriffinPoetryPrizeLonglist

Congratulations to Halyna Kruk, and her translators Amelia M. Glaser (Amelia Glaser) and Yuliya Ilchuk!

chytomo.com/en/halyna-kruk…

Here’s the thing: Kyiv’s air defense kept the city safe last night (guests included), shooting down all 31 of the missiles Russia fired at it. But it’s running out of air defense missiles — some fear before the end of this month. Step up, Speaker Mike Johnson Congressdotgov.

This is going to be awesome!

Birds of Ontario Place

📍On the hoarding which blocks access to West Island, Lake Shore Blvd

Had so much fun writing this blog post ZEISS Birding about birding and mental health. Ismaila Alfa blogs.zeiss.com/sports-optics/…

I'm so excited to be on Talkin' Birds Radio Show on Sunday! Tune in live or online! Talkinbirds.com

Seems about right that this small handwritten sign ends up being the notice of closure for Ontario Place.
As much thoughtfulness as the rest of the awful plans for West Island.

I co-led a super fun bird walk and we saw a gazillion herons (ok, 5) and I wrote about it for ZEISS Birding: blogs.zeiss.com/sports-optics/…

I am so excited about Sasha Vasilyuk's new novel! Pre-ordering asap, and you should too! I adored the excerpts I read Bread Loaf Writers' Conferences & can't wait to read the whole thing!