I was once asked by an interviewer, "If you could come back as an animal, what would you be?" " If a bird," I replied, "I’d want to be an American kestrel. Why? Just watch one for a while!" Swift fliers (and they can hover!), resourceful, and spectacular in form and color, kestrels are a delight to behold. They also take well to artificial breeding sites. So if you have the right habitat, put up a nest box designed for this smallest of American falcons and you ma

For those of you in the Bozeman, Montana area, on Monday, October 16th, I'll be giving a presentation about Montana's mountain goats,...

A heads up about an upcoming Nature special televised on PBS next week. Born in the Rockies airs at 7 pm on November 10 and the second...