|
|
|
|
Laura Erickson Is For the Birds
Laura has a new web page, and this one
will eventually be obsolete. To go
to the new site, click here! It’s easy to remember—it’s www.lauraerickson.com
|
|
|
|
|
|
- Laura's campaign to designate the Black-capped Chickadee as Minnesota's official Emergency Auxiliary Back-Up State Bird
- COVER GIRL!! See Grandpa's Canaries, Laura's December, 2001, cover story in The Senior Reporter!
- Several people have requested copies of the For the Birds transcripts from September 13 and 14. Or look at this Checklist of the Birds of Afghanistan
- Links to some of the Journey North pages that Laura has written
- Laura's Guilt-Free, Gilt-Free Bird Book Club
- Laura's Top Ten All-Time Favorite Birds!
Read
the March 4, 2001, profile about me in the Duluth Budgeteer! - Read my recent article in YourLife Magazine about how my Bichon Frise, Photon, brings in warblers!
- AT LONG LAST!! Listen to "For the Birds" programs, interviews, and California Ravens songs on the WEB!!
- Listen to the "Talk of the Nation" program for July 2, 1998, when I was Ray Suarez's guest!!
- Check out the National Outdoor Book Awards for 1997
- Order a copy of one of my books
- Hawaii Vacation Report!!
- Laura's response to the USDA proposal to poison six million Red-winged Blackbirds--the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service put the kabosh on this proposal earlier this spring!!
This homepage has information
about me and my books, transcripts of not-so-recent "For the Birds"
programs, some bird jokes and trivia, and lots of hyperlinks to additional
sources of bird information and even some non-bird information available on the
Internet. If you want to know what I look like, check out Laura's Photo If you
want to see what my educational screech owl Archimedes looks like, thanks to
KUMD's Lisa Johnson you can look right here!!
|
Click the quetzal to see
a |
Click the hummer to see a
|
|
Click the dome to view |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
And check our Journey North's fabulous Ruby-throated Hummingbird photos, from new nest each day through the babies fledging! (I wrote the captions for them!) |
|
|
To get answers to your bird questions, check out Ask the Birder or send me an e-mail lauraerick@aol.com. |
One of the issues I care most about is the effects of cats on bird populations.
To read more about it, check out "Cats and Wildlife: A Conservation
Dilemma." This is not copyrighted, and the authors encourage copying and
making it available to everyone in the universe. Cats. And I am
a proud member of the American Bird
Conservancy, whose "Cats Indoors" campaign is a really great
one! Check them out.
Some of the things I have written include an Essay About
Hunting published in NorthLife magazine in October, 1999, a NorthLife
magazine cover story about my birding experiences in Duluth, and a
highly opinionated article about my reaction to the proposed Mourning Dove
Season in Wisconsin. 
I
am currently working on a couple of projects with Gerard Fuehrer, and
hope eventually to produce a book about Blue Jays (Nature's perfect bird)
and some children's books. I am searching for a publisher for
a children's picture book called The Curious
Adventures of Max the Maggot. At some point I want to
start what will perhaps be my magnum opus, a book about the birds in Disney
cartoons. If you have serious or non-serious information about these topics,
let me know. Also, if you have program ideas for "For the Birds," or
comments, send me an e-mail.
I present slide programs about birds for adults and for children. I used to bring
my federally- and state-licensed Blue Jay Sneakers along. Sneakers could say
"Hi" and "C'mon," and whistle. She was a wonderful
companion and partner for almost seven years, but she died on New Year's
Eve,1997. In April, 2000, I received an Eastern Screech-Owl from Mona Rutger's
"Back to the Wild" facility in Castalia, Ohio. Archimedes has
been coming with me to many of my programs and is proving to be a fantastic
education bird.
My programs for school groups are arranged through Hartley Nature Center in
Duluth. 218-724-6735.
If
you would like a list of program topics I can do for any age or type of
audience, or to arrange an adult program, drop me an e-mail. lauraerick@aol.com. I currently charge
$150 for an hour-long program within 50 miles of Duluth, and $300 plus expenses
for more distant travel. In some unique cases I can make exceptions, but
please remember that I'm trying to make a living at this, and don't get retirement
benefits or things that most people take for granted. I'm NOT going to do
free programs for a group of doctors planning a trip to an exotic location that
I could never afford, for example.
Once a month an article of mine appears in The Minneapolis Star Tribune's
"Home and Garden" section. For more information about the
Star-Tribune, check out Star Tribune,
Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota... An article of mine also appears
monthly in Your Life Magazine.
Five public radio stations carry my program, "For the Birds," which
airs 3-5 times a week (when I'm caught up). You can listen to "For the Birds" live on KUMD's site, every
morning at about 7:30 and again about 8:45 CDT. It's only about 4 minutes
long, so you might miss it!
For more information about the radio stations contact:
KUMD Duluth, MN
KVSC St. Cloud, MN
WTIP Grand Marais, MN
WXPR, Rhinelander, WI
WOJB, Hayward, WI
I've had even more visits to this site than this number indicates! Go figure!
This page was designed by ME!! Not that it was all that hard, but I'm sort of proud of it because I'm technologically challenged. It only took a weekend, using software I found just lying around the house--well, on my computer--and it was lots of fun. After I designed it, one of my friends said she had to pay $300 to someone to design her business page. No way could I have afforded THAT! Let me know what you think! Send me an e-mail.