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How to track a songbird from Alaska to Peru
NEW YORK, NY.- For an olive-sided flycatcher, migration can be a marathon. Some of the soot-colored songbirds travel more than 15,000 miles a year, winging their way from South America to Alaska and then back again. Its a dizzyingly long journey for a bird that weighs just over an ounce. Alaska populations of olive-sided flycatchers are just on this razor-thin margin of whats biologically possible, said Julie Hagelin, a wildlife research biologist at the Alaska Department of Fish and Game and a senior research scientist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. To survive the long trip, the birds need safe places to rest and refuel. But the locations of these little utopias were a mystery, Hagelin said. So in 2013, she and her colleagues set out to unravel it by tracking the birds. They hoped that identifying the critical stopover sites might provide clues about ... More

The eternal search for the 'Nemesis Bird'
NEW YORK, NY.- In the world of birding, Peter Kaestner stands alone. No one has seen and identified more birds than Kaestner, a retired U.S. diplomat who aspires to become the first birder to spot 10,000 of the planets roughly 11,000 avian species. With 9,697 on his eBird list so far, he is getting close. Yet for all the birds he has looked for and found, there remain a few that he has looked for and not found. He doesnt forget them. There was the Congo peacock a rare multicolored pheasant of the Central African rainforest that he missed in 1978, when his traveling party was stymied by a crash on the remote airstrip they planned to search. There was a black-browed albatross he pursued off the German coast in 2015, some 300 miles and a four-hour ferry ride from Kaestners home in Frankfurt at the time. I made four 10-hour trips to twitch it, to no ... More

"Entwined" being presented at Sundaram Tagore Gallery in tandem with sepiaEYE
LONDON.- Sundaram Tagore Gallery in tandem with sepiaEYE is presenting Entwined,
curated by Esa Epstein. Featuring the work of Serena Chopra, Pamela Singh, Qiana Mestrich, and Gayatri Ganju, the exhibition is being hosted at Sundaram Tagore Gallery in London. Each artist explores the intersections between nature, philosophy, spirituality, and the natural sciences. Defying distinctions between the internal and external, material and non-material, living or dead, their photographs reveal the artists fascination with nature, humankinds interaction with the earth, and the impact of one on the other. From Ganjus dream imagery to the reflection in community in Singhs, the photographers take on, in artist Carolina Caycedo terms, the feminine and feminist labor of care at the center of environmentalism. ... More

In Japan's 'Gateway to Asia': Street food, night life and a thriving arts scene
NEW YORK, NY.- Theres a soothing hum to laid-back Fukuoka, the largest city on the Japanese island of Kyushu. Its hard to miss on a weekend afternoon as you stroll down Meiji-dori Avenue, the citys wide downtown spine, passing places like the Kabuki theater Hakata-za and the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum. Eventually, you will reach the slow-flowing Naka River, whose banks are lined with the traditional open-air food stalls known as yatai, a signature attraction in this culinary and arts haven. With a sprawling commercial port that was Japans largest between the 12th and 16th centuries and which, to this day, links the country with China, Korea and other parts of the Pacific, Fukuoka has long been considered Japans Gateway to Asia. A popular destination for vacationing Japanese, the city is also drawing tourists from abroad, especially noticeable since ... More

Nicholas Hitchon, 65, who aged 7 years at a time in the 'Up' documentaries
NEW YORK, NY.- Nicholas Hitchon, whose life was chronicled in the acclaimed Up series of British documentaries, beginning when he was a boy in the English countryside in 1964 and continuing through the decades as he grew to become a researcher and professor at the University of Wisconsin, died July 23 in Madison, Wisconsin. He was 65. A posting on the universitys website announced his death, from throat cancer. In the most recent installment of the series, 63 Up, in 2019, he described his struggles with the disease. Hitchon was a student in a one-room primary school in Littondale, north of Manchester, when a researcher working on a Granada Television project came looking for a 7-year-old willing to participate in what was originally viewed as a one-shot TV special. Young Nick was only 6, but he was talkative and unintimidated ... More

Queer history was made in '90s clubs. These flyers captured it.
NEW YORK, NY.- In the new book Getting In, journalist David Kennerley takes an electric visual stroll through New Yorks 1990s gay club scene. Not with photos, exactly, but through flyers more than 200 of them featuring polychromatic drag queens and come-hither hunks who enticed him to dance to Frankie Knuckles and Junior Vasquez remixes at popular nightclubs like Twilo and the Palladium, and parties like Jackie 60 and Lick It! People threw the flyers on the ground, Kennerley, 63, said in a recent interview at a midtown cafe. I thought, why would you throw this out? Its going to be a memento. Kennerley assembled the book from his collection of more than 1,200 flyers that he acquired from several sources promoters outside clubs, now-closed gay shops and bars, club mailing lists all before social media. A self-described ... More

Birds without borders
NEW YORK, NY.- Americas birds are in trouble. Since 1970, nearly 3 billion have vanished from the skies over North America. Most of those losses have been in migratory species, which may breed in the United States or Canada in the summer before heading elsewhere for the winter. Many spend more time on Caribbean beaches or in Costa Rican forests than they do in American backyards. Theyre really visitors to North America, said Viviana Ruiz-Gutierrez, co-director of the Center for Avian Population Studies at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Protecting these birds will require working across international borders and safeguarding all of their habitats, many of which are under threat. If migrating birds lose their winter refuges, the consequences will ripple across the hemisphere. If we lose Central Americas forests, we can lose ... More

Undeterred by inclement weather this summer, road line slithers towards Eden St
BAR HARBOR, ME.- Like the water moccasin that Andy Goldsworthy references in his description of Road Line, his latest monumental permanent art installation taking place this summer on the campus of College of the Atlantic, the renowned artist and his crew of local ma- sons and artisans have been swamped in an ongoing trend of wet weather, as the piece snakes for more than a thousand feet from Frenchman Bay to Eden Street. The Road Line art installa- tion is expected to be completed by early September. A native of England, who had adopted Scotland as his permanent home years ago, Goldsworthy has proceeded with his installation undeterred by Maines unusually soggy sum- mer weather, which is more akin to that of the U.K. than a typical summer in Maine. The Road Line sculpture, on which Goldsworthy officially began work in late ... More

67th BFI London Film Festival announces LFF Expanded's programme of Immersive Art and Extended Realities
LONDON.- The 67th BFI London Film Festival (4 15 October) in partnership with American Express is excited to announce the line-up for LFF Expanded, the Festivals programme of Immersive Art and Extended Realities, running from 6 22 October 2023. The BFI London Film Festival celebrates the moving image in all its forms from shorts and features to television and immersive and LFF Expanded invites audience to explore and experience these powerful new ways of telling stories on screen. Featuring British and international artists, filmmakers and creative teams, such as Shirin Neshat, Tania de Montaigne, Bjarne Melgaard, Karen Palmer, Darren Emerson and Anagram, this years programme offers audiences ... More