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Can A Tree Save Your Life?
Scientists Milena Shattuck and Scott Williams studied tree dwellers versus ground dwellers and found that mammals who spend the majority of their time up a tree live longer than those who scurry along...
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Home is Where?
The Edge of the Wood would like to salute Abby Putterill. Putterill, 16, adopted Hammy, a mopane squirrel, two months ago after the tiny animal was found injured and abandoned at Zimbabwe’s Bally...
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Do Animals Know About Daylight Savings Time?
Here At The Edge of the Wood we humans behind the camera follow daylight savings time. But our animal friends do not. Amanda Hardy and Renee Seidler write, “The transitions to and from daylight...
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What are Owls Saying About Climate Change?
At The Edge of the Wood we revere scientists. For 19 years, the owl researcher Denver Holt has journeyed to Barrow, Alaska, to study the lemmings and owls. Holt says, “If climate change results in...
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Feathers are for the Birds
Here At The Edge of the Wood we are disturbed about feathers being used in fashion. When you see a feather in a hat or braided into hair there is always a bird who has lost her life. Does fashion...
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Can Birding Change the World?
Trish O’Kane thinks so. She runs a program at the University of Wisconsin that pairs university birding students with underprivileged middle school students in a unique environmental studies program....
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Is Black the New Grey?
Here at The Edge of the Wood we noticed that in urban areas there are more black squirrels than gray squirrels. Biologists believe that black squirrels may have been the norm several centuries ago,...
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Fill Out Your Real Estate Portfolio with….Birds?
A recent study looked at the economic value city dwellers place on having birds in their communities. Researches asked how much residents would spend to conserve common bird species and what they’d...
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Scientists Say, “Your Yard Matters.”
Here at The Edge of the Wood we just tossed out our lawnmower and planted more bird- friendly-berry, bearing-bushes. We think of this as a win-win. Biologists Amy Belaire and Emily Minor found that...
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