Author: jonathanslaght

• A Spoon-Billed Curiosity

  This Spoon-billed sandpiper hatched somewhere in the Arctic of northeastern Russia, in the spring of 1988, a diminutive fluff camouflaged among the tundra vegetation. A few months later she flew…

• Steller’s Sea Eagle: King of the Air

  So large is the Steller’s sea eagle that occasionally, on a frozen bay, one of these birds can be mistaken for the hunched form of an ice fisherman. It is the…

• Email Auto-Replies: Bring Your ‘A’ Game

  Yesterday, Tim Herrera of the New York Times posted an article about email auto replies which, after soliciting submissions, included a number of reader entries. That this simple article elicited…