Meant to post this one a while back...UNITED KINGDOM BIRD LISTArctic Skua     [Parasitic Jaeger]Arctic TernAtlantic PuffinAvocetBarn SwallowBar-tailed GodwitBlack guillemotBlack-headed GullBlack-legged KittiwakeBlack-tailed GodwitCoal TitCommon BuzzardCommon ChaffinchCommon EiderCommon guillemot  [Common murre]Common GullCommon KestrelCommon MagpieCommon MoorhenCommon PheasantCommon RavenCommon RedshankCommon StarlingCormorantEurasian CootEurasian ...

Life on the Wing: Traveling Pole to Pole with the Arctic Tern Quarterly Report 1 June 6 - Sept 10, 2006 First World Breeding Grounds: Canada, Scotland, England Ecology and Biology Churchill, Manitoba, Canada (June 6 - July 10) The Arctic Terns arrived in the tundra of Churchill and the Hudson Bay region in the last week of May and the first week of June, 2006. The Churchill Northern Studies Center provided an ideal base to conduct work, with a ...

I have never particularly enjoyed being in cities or even felt entirely comfortable in bustling metropolises. I certainly have never considered myself a 'city person', to use the oft-employed term for someone who seems to thrive on the strange tingle that percolates in one's nose after a day of breathing in the cigaret smoke of hard puffing European masses and the fumes from a phalanx of buses, taxis, and cars; someone who walks in time with a rhythm that can't ...

Beyond the rocks and jutting stacks that guard the entrance to this small, U-shaped, cliff-lined cove, the open ocean stretches on until its blues and greys subtly merge with the clouds that bask on the horizon, an infinity of water and air, and if I lean, slowly and carefully, a foot to my right or left, I am greeted by another infinity of air, somehow greater and even more breathtaking than the first, that reaches from the grassy rocks and lichen that form my s...