Laura Erickson

Tom Kasper takes a quick break from the garden to crack open a book by a familiar name

Things that are not as they seem: John James Audubon, condor "virgin births," and New Zealand's Bird of the Year

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…

A story about why you want to be very, very careful with what bird memes you forward to Laura Erickson.Seriously.You can browse through some ways to help…

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,…

For The Birds host Laura Erickson stepped into the breach this week as the "emergency auxiliary backup Larry Weber" (after Larry was sidelined* with a bad…

HF 888 is headed to conference committee in the House of Representatives. A provision in the bill would prohibit the DNR from adopting rules that restrict…