Spring is Here!
This Nature Walk edition continues from #4.1 – Arthopods.
I’ve broken this post up into four parts due to the large number of images:

4.1 – Arthropods

4.2 – Birds (this post)
4.3 – Reptiles, Amphibians, & Mammals

4.4 – Plants & Fungi

The images are highly compressed for bandwidth’s sake, but you can click on the images for [...]

For my next Nature Walk, on my Friday lunch break I decided to take a quick stroll around the lake at the NIEHS campus, camera in hand. Over the past couple of month several coworkers have spotted two river otters in the lake (which is strange indeed). I even managed to spot one while staring [...]

For the first time ever, I have been included in the blog carnival for the birds: I and the Bird #94!  And wow are there alot of people who are into birding! Each edition is jam packed with stories of birds, pictures of birds, and recipes of birds (not really).
So set aside some time over [...]

Once, again the past decades of developmental biology research has been forgotten amidst the layman’s limited understanding of the potential wonders of genetic technology.
It started off innocently enough: Time.com began a series of articles on “Visions of the 21st Century.”
With daily headlines on the rampant success of molecular, genetic, organismal, and evolutionary biology, it seems [...]