Thank you to Ryan in Bloomington, IN for this amazing poem! Ryan wrote “World” after a school visit from Phillip Hoose featuring the book Moonbird.
Even the Moonbird Might See the Earth
Book: Moonbird
My major weapon is a good narrative
Thank you to David Snodgress of the Herald-Times for writing about Moonbird and Phillip Hoose’s to Summit Elementary in Indiana. “Students got to know B95, a small bird that has flown the distance it takes to get to the moon and halfway back, when author and Indiana University graduate Phillip Hoose came by Summit Elementary. To tell third-, fourth-… Read more »
B95 Spotted in Argentina
“The last we heard of a red knot known as B95 — after his tag — he was in Canada. It was August, and he was on his way south. As usual, scientists studying red knots figured it might be their last sighting of him. No bird lives forever, they keep telling themselves. But recently,… Read more »
Save the Red Knot! Sign the Petition!
If you have read the book Moonbird by Phillip Hoose, you know that one individual bird has had incredible staying power while his species is under great threat. You can help the Red Knot. The US Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed to protect the Red Knot rufa under the Endangered Species Act. Doing so would… Read more »
B95 Spotted in Rio Grande
Patricia M. González of the Global Flyway Network in South America sent author Phillip Hoose this astounding news about B95… “This afternoon Allan Baker, Luis Benegas and myself saw B95 in the shores of Rio Grande in Tierra del Fuego. It was a great surprise as last year we did not see him in the area. Allan managed… Read more »
List Red Knot as a Threatened Species?
Readers of Phillip Hoose’s bird biography, Moonbird: A Year of the Wind with the Great Survivor B95 will cheer to hear that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposes to list the red knot as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act. Read the release below and note the address for public comment. You… Read more »
Moonbird Spotted in Canada!
B95 continues his miraculous journey! The rufa red knot, nicknamed Moonbird, was spotted in Mingan archipelago at the mouth of the St. Lawrence River in northern Quebec by Yann Rochepault on August 2nd, 2013. Mingan is a stop-over spot on the red knots’ flight from the Arctic to Tierra del Fuego. “This means he made it through another breeding… Read more »
Hoose Reports from Delaware Bay
This report came via email from author Phillip Hoose who is on Delaware Bay banding shorebirds and hoping to spot B95, the subject of his award-winning book, Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95. “Two young Quebecois biologists—Yann Rochepault and Christophe Buidin– snapped these photos yesterday morning at Fortescue Beach on… Read more »
Moonbird Spotted!
A shout of joy went through the birding community on 5/16/13 when B95 aka Moonbird, the subject of Phillip Hoose’s book Moonbird was spotted again on Delaware Bay. Read about it the Philadelphia Inquirer Blog.
Moonbird Installation
Jan Eckardt Butler, art teacher and life-long birder, shared this astounding art installation by 4th and 5th graders at Holland Hall School in Tulsa, OK. Inspired by Moonbird, these beautifully painted rufa red knots seek pearls of horseshoe crab eggs under the paper sand. This is education at its best.