(Photo by Mick Thompson) Those are Marin’s big waterbirds. But many people think of a different group of birds when they think of the large and imposing: the raptors, or birds of prey.

Why had there been not a single indisputable sighting, or photo, or video, of this large, conspicuous, noisy bird since 1944 ... when the old-growth forests of the South were being cut down ...

Recently, NASA posted a photo of one such bird, which they termed a 'large, brown-eyed' sandhill crane. The first reason is that the shot was magnificent, primarily because the species was a ...