Ian Stewart Most people don’t think of this time of year as being pretty. The colorful flowers and their butterflies are long gone, the bright green leaves have either fallen or turned pale and shriveled, and the meadows are a straggly tangle of dull browns and grays. Nature looks especially gloomy on the chilly, damp, …
Ian Stewart, Matt Bailey and Joe Sebastiani Last week an accidental discovery brought the Delaware Nature Society a link with a past that few of us had known. Bret Lanan, a knowledgeable deer hunter exploring an obscure corner of our Coverdale Farm Preserve in Greenville alerted Dave Pro, the DNS Land Steward, to what he …
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Tips from Delaware Nature Society By Christi Leeson Halloween can be a celebration that is not so green. Make it a Halloween that’s not so scary for your bats and beasties with these environmentally friendly tips from Delaware Nature Society: Don’t scare the costumed kids with single-use plastic. Instead, give kids reusable Trick-or-Treating sacks and …
Ian Stewart A major analysis published last week (Rosenberg et al. 2019, Science, downloadable by scrolling down here) makes depressing reading for anyone interested in birds or in nature in general. A team of leading North American researchers analyzed almost 50 years of data from multiple sources and calculated that about 3 billion birds (= …
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