Laura Erickson's For the Birds

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The Darkling Thrush Dec 31, 2025

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One of Laura's listeners and readers, Linda Peplinski, gave Laura a lovely reminder of Thomas Hardy's poem *The Darkling Thrush.*

Homecoming Dec 26, 2025

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Five percent of Laura's joy in a trip comes during the planning stages; 45 percent comes during the actual trip; and a full 50 percent comes in the days, weeks, and years after the trip is over.

Ecuador! Dec 24, 2025

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Laura's back from a wonderful trip.

Katie's Birthday Dec 10, 2025

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Laura's daughter, turning 42 years old on December 10, is facing a hard ordeal.

Ecuador! Dec 09, 2025

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On December 8, Laura plans to go to sleep on the far side of the Equator.

Energy Star Dec 02, 2025

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Tech companies and data centers will squander electricity and water until we impose strict regulations and give them cost incentives.

Fakery Nov 21, 2025

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Why would anyone use AI to create fake birds when reality is so splendid?

Big Data Nov 18, 2025

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Little by little, we've become inured to more and more technological intrusions, some of which bear enormous environmental costs.

Book Review: New edition of the National Geographic guide Nov 11, 2025

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It's comprehensive and includes birds of Hawaii now, but is too big to carry in the field, and the font is much too small to be readable for me.

Another October Rarity: A Cattle Egret! Nov 05, 2025

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What's a cattle egret doing just outside Duluth around Halloween?

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