Category Archives: Featured Blog

Featured Blog: Bill of the Birds

Bill Thompson III, who blogs as Bill of the Birds, is the editor of Bird Watcher’s Digest by day. He’s also a keen birder, the author of many books, a dad, a field trip leader, an ecotourism consultant, a guitar player, the host of the “This Birding Life” podcast, a regular speaker/performer on the birding [...]

Featured blog: coming later today

And it will be worth coming back for, I promise!

Featured Blog: The House and other Arctic musings

Clare Kines blogs at The House and other Arctic musings. He is a retired mountie (member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police) who lives in the High Arctic Community of Arctic Bay, 73 degrees North. I don’t know if he’s our northernmost member in this hemisphere, but he’s certainly one of the most northernly bloggers [...]

Featured Blog: The Willow House Chronicles

This week’s featured blog is The Willow House Chronicles, the blog of Sheri aka Barefootheart (don’t you love that nickname? I do!). Sheri is a self-described late-50s mother of 3 grown daughters, a long-time horsekeeper, a crazy cat lady, a book reader, a student of nature, and a gardener. She currently keeps [...]

Featured Blog: Mon@rch’s Nature Blog

Mon@rch’s Nature Blog is well-known to NBN members, and is a perennial favorite of many of us. Tom, aka mon@rch, also maintains birdQUIZ, a fun blog for sharpening your identification skills. He has 16 years of experience in the environmental education and field biology research field. In the early 1990’s, Tom was a volunteer [...]

Featured Blog: Magnificent Frigatebird

This week, I’d like you to meet Amy Evenstad, the blogger of Magnificent Frigatebird and Birdorable.You may remember Birdorable from the Bloggerhead Kingbirds team logo in last week’s feature.

I’ll let Amy introduce herself:
In 1999 I moved to the Netherlands to live with my future husband. Before that I had never been out of the United [...]

Featured Blog: Picus Blog

Meet this week’s featured blogger, Christopher Ciccone (no relation to Madonna, thank you) from PicusBlog. Christopher started birding in 2003 and has been blogging about his experiences for about two years now. At home in Massachusetts, many of his posts revolve around birding in New England. However, he and his wife love to travel [...]

Featured Blog Carnival: Festival of the Trees

This week, we’re featuring a blog carnival rather than a blog. Many of you know, and have contributed to, Festival of the Trees already. If you haven’t, I hope this introduction will broaden your horizons and perhaps inspire a contribution. On a personal note, Festival of the Trees is a favorite of mine, because it’s [...]

Featured Blog: Deep Sea News

Today’s guests are the authors of Deep Sea News, Kevin Zelnio and Dr. M.
Kevin is a researcher at Duke Marine Lab studying the population genetics and molecular ecology of animals at deep-sea hydrothermal vents. He studied Evolution, Ecology and Geology at University of California, Davis and has a Masters degree in Biology from Penn [...]

Featured Blog: Birder’s Lounge

Our featured blog this week is Birders Lounge, and our author and hostess is Amber Coakley. Amber  has been blogging at Birder’s Lounge since May, 2008, and recently helped launch the new carnival, House of Herps. Though birds are her primary focus, Amber has deep appreciation and unbridled enthusiasm for all wildlife. If you’d like [...]