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.
This news just arrived from Patricia Gonzalez from the Global Flyway Network via fellow conservationist Charles Duncan from the Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences. B95 has been spotted in New Jersey!! “It is incredible! Were counted some 29,000 red knots in Delaware Bay and I was lucky that B95 decided to settle in front of… Read more »
Mike Hudson, founder of Friends of the Red Knot, and Phillip Hoose, author of Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95, talk about the Peace, Love and Horseshoe Crab Festival at the DuPont Nature Center near Milford, DE. Watch it here.
Author Phillip Hoose is on Delaware Bay hoping to spot B95, the star of his forthcoming book Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95. Will B95 show himself this year?? Read the article from the Delaware State News (PDF) here.