For The Birds

Laura Erickson, longtime KUMD volunteer and creator of For The Birds, has been honored with the 2020 Minnesota Ornithologists’ Union’s Thomas Sadler…

When scores of dead birds began showing up in the Northland this week, folks did what folks around here do: they called Laura Erickson to learn more about…

Hawk-watchers were in "raptors" Sunday (see what we did there?) at Hawk Ridge Bird Observatory with the capture of a leucistic red-tailed hawk. Many…

Listeners to Laura Erickson's For the Birds program this morning heard about the plight of our early arrivals in the Northland - and it's not good news.In…

There's some good data to be had from the yearly Christmas Bird Counts ... plus a lot of fun.One of the oldest citizen-science projects in the country,…

Morning people (and those thrust into wakefulness by birdsong) can avail themselves of a chance to bird with Laura Erickson a couple of times a week now…

This morning, Laura Erickson drew our attention to this cool map - a Ruby-throated hummingbird ETA, of sorts. You can find out more here:And you can…

A lot of our friends and neighbors headed to Washington D.C. for the Women's March on Washington.Laura Erickson was one of them ... and she wrote about…

It's not every day we create a special post about Laura Erickson's For the Birds ... but then, it's not every day the Cubs win the World Series, either.

Just in time for our month-long celebration of 30 years of Laura Erickson's For The Birds -- a long-awaited field guide to the birds she's been telling us…