Tag Archives: Audubon

The Whiteness of Audubon’s Snowy Egret

Posted on November 22, 2024 by Stephen Carr Hampton

Nicolas Mirzoeff’s essay, The Whiteness of Birds, brought my attention to this painting. There are layers here that probably tell us more about people than the about the ecology of the bird – about white history, white nature, white autonomy, … Continue reading →

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How ignoring Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) set modern ornithology back a hundred years

Posted on April 24, 2024 by Stephen Carr Hampton

This is a re-post from my other blog, The Cottonwood Post, which is focused on birds, birding, and environmental issues. Here I review a new book about the history of American ornithology — and all the stuff the early colonizers … Continue reading →

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Decolonizing bird names: Effort reveals fault lines among birders

Posted on April 28, 2021 by Stephen Carr Hampton

A revolution is about to sweep the world of birders and ornithologists. After decades of intransigence, the most prominent organizations and authors – including prominent field guide authors David Sibley and Kenn Kaufmann – are endorsing “bird names for birds”, … Continue reading →

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Yurok set to restore condors in California

Posted on March 13, 2017 by Stephen Carr Hampton

A great example (and there are many) of a tribe restoring our natural world. California Condors Could Soon Soar Above the Redwoods Again Thanks to One Local Tribe For more than a decade the Yurok Tribe has been pushing to … Continue reading →

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