Articles by 'Gerry Smith'

The world’s greatest avian travelers are in trouble. The Earth’s populations of sandpipers, plovers and thei...

“This article is dedicated to Ken Deedy, the visionary conservationist to whom the songbirds owe a debt of gratitu...

The natural world is ever fluctuating within limits. This was once true of water levels on the Eastern Great Lakes and S...

If you are convinced the Double-crested Cormorant is a demon bird, sent from the dark side to gobble up all OUR fish, th...

So far my articles have concentrated on the winners with increasing populations over the last four decades. Now I will m...

The dynamic nature of our regions avifauna continues to be shaped by human actions, positive and negative. Some species ...

When this young biologist first began working on the River in 1976, many things were very different in the bird world. T...