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Long before eBird, birders simply called up an avian hotline to learn where to chase unusual birds. Today these phone services are themselves sliding toward extinction—with one notable exception.

Birds perform a springtime symphony. Can you identify them by their songs? By Don Lyman Globe Correspondent,Updated April 23, 2021, 1:03 p.m. Email to a Friend Black-throated Blue Warbler seen in Mount Auburn Cemetery in May 2017.Jared Keyes “Listen to the songbird, hear him singing. The song he loves he’s singing just for you.” (From ) As we move into spring, it seems that birds are suddenly everywhere. Whether year-round residents like cardinals or chickadees, or migratory spec...

By Bill Galluccio Feb 24, 2021 After nearly 25 years, three murders in North Las Vegas were finally solved when the suspect confessed while in police custody.  Willis King Davis, 43, was arrested on January 12 for having a concealed handgun. Davis told the officers that he was responsible for three gang-related killings in 1996. He told detectives that on May 18, 1996, he and two other friends who were members of the GPK gang went driving around looking for rival gang members. They found an ...

The 43-year-old said he was a member of a gang at the time of the murders.

By Bill Galluccio Feb 24, 2021 After nearly 25 years, three murders in North Las Vegas were finally solved when the suspect confessed while in police custody.  Willis King Davis, 43, was arrested on January 12 for having a concealed handgun. Davis told the officers that he was responsible for three gang-related killings in 1996. He told detectives that on May 18, 1996, he and two other friends who were members of the GPK gang went driving around looking for rival gang members. They found an ...

The 43-year-old said he was a member of a gang at the time of the murders.

The 43-year-old said he was a member of a gang at the time of the murders.

Jon Gorey - Globe Correspondent February 23, 2021 3:09 pm A severe housing shortage in Thailand last fall sent local officials scrambling to boost the supply of waterfront property. But it wasn’t more beachfront condos they needed — it was seashells. A newly thriving hermit crab population around Koh Lanta National Park meant there were more of the crustaceans on the beaches than shells for the crabs to live in. And without the protection of a shell, the crabs can’t survive. So th...

FIELD GUIDE Here’s looking at you: In the woods — or in your backyard — you might see a barred owl this winter By Don Lyman Globe Correspondent,Updated January 7, 2021, 6:40 p.m. Email to a Friend A barred owl foraging on the forest floor of Franklin Park Wilderness became startled and flew into a tree.Stephen H. Baird A few years ago while walking in the woods on a winter day in the Middlesex Fells Reservation, a few miles north of Boston, I stopped and looked around. In the fad...