Oct 22nd, 2008 · The bar-tailed godwit, a shore bird, has set a new standard for bird migration. A team of scientists recently tracked a godwit as it flew from Alaska to New Zealand — a distance of almost 7,200 miles — for nine days without a rest.
Nov 1st, 2005 · A black-tailed gull known as a "Japanese gull" has been seen and photographed in Vermont, thousands of miles from its Asian habitat. Noah Adams talks with Audubon Society member Carl Runge about the sighting, and how the gull may have strayed so far from home.
Apr 30th, 2005 · Many animals, including some exotic ones, flourish along the margins of suburban development: red-tailed hawks, coyotes, snakes. Lisa Couturier tells Jennifer Ludden about her book The Hopes of Snakes. It weaves stories of animals with the lives of humans around them.