This week in birds - #655
A roundup of the week's news of birds and the environment : This is a Black Phoebe . It is a resident near watery landscape features all along the west coast of North America and down into Central America and along the western coast of South America. Like other phoebes, it often nests near humans and even in or on human structures. Its population is increasing all along its range. It is the American Bird Conservancy's Bird of the Week . *~*~*~* Jane Goodall became my hero when I first read about her in the pages of the National Geographic back in the 1960s. I've followed her career ever since and I am saddened to know she is no longer physically among us, but what a legacy she has left! *~*~*~* And at the opposite end of the spectrum, what a legacy this man will leave as he wages war on clean energy and seeks to revive "big coal." *~*~*~* Scientists now believe our species could be older than previously thought, based on the reconstruction of a million-year-o...