Weekend reads: Some of our most-read wildlife stories -

Saturday, August 1, 2020

Weekend reads: Some of our most-read wildlife stories

From time to time, an animal story (or two or three) pops up in the analytics as gaining a noticeable amount of attention, due to people’s searches that land them there, or other online referrals.

Here’s an offering of a few of those popular stories for your reading pleasure:

Coyotes: Decoding Their Yips, Barks, and Howls
Don’t make fun of possums (by Steve Hall)
Fishers don’t give a damn about their bad reputations (by Steve Hall)

And here’s one about hummingbird moths I came across when I was looking to identify a pollinator I saw on the top of Baxter Mountain recently (shown in the above photo, which appears to be a hummingbird moth).

Melissa Hart

Melissa is a journalist with experience as a reporter and editor with the Burlington Free Press, Ithaca Journal and Fairbanks Daily News-Miner. She worked as a communications specialist for the Adirondack North Country Association and runs her own New York State Women owned Business-Enterprise Bootstrap Communications, which includes digital marketing, strategy and design. She enjoys hiking, camping and other outdoors activities, and spending time with her husband, their twin daughters, and rescue animals -- two dogs and a cat.

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