Here’s a entry in the occasional Know Your Coffee Bird series, which profiles birds that utilize shade coffee farms. This post is about a species people might not immediately connect […]
Revised on March 4, 2021Birds and other biodiversity
Some time ago, I wrote a detailed post about “land sharing” versus “land sparing“, two agriculture strategies. In a nutshell, land sharing is the use of cover crops, interplantings, and […]
A profile of a bird species that has a very special, recently defined connection to coffee.
Revised on March 4, 2021Support a conservation program that provides native shade trees to Nicaraguan coffee farmers.
Revised on November 24, 2020Summary of recent research directly from the paper, not the press release.
Revised on November 28, 2020A species of orchid is named for a coffee company (Puro Coffee) that contributed to the preservation of land on which the orchid — among other species — was discovered. Includes a coffee review.
Revised on November 28, 2020A look at the charming and lively American Redstart, a warbler commonly found in Latin American shade coffee farms in winter.
Revised on November 28, 2020The Ovenbird (Seiurus aurocapillus) is often heard before it is seen, a loud ringing “tea-cher, TEA-cher, TEA-CHER!” broadcast from close to the forest floor through much of the eastern U.S. […]
Revised on November 25, 2020A profile of the Malabar Barbet, the first Old World species in our series on Know Your Coffee Birds. This one is found only in India’s Western Ghats.
Revised on November 25, 2020Learn more about the brilliant Scarlet Tanager. It inspired my love of birds and my career, and is symbolic of “our” birds that winter in the tropics on shade coffee farms.
Revised on December 7, 2020Want warblers to eat your coffee berry borers? Give them some forest to sleep in.
Revised on November 28, 2020It’s not just that you have fruit trees on a farm, but what types they are, that are important for birds.
Revised on November 29, 2020This paper looked at the diversity and abundance of frogs and salamanders in an area of tropical montane cloud forest, shade coffee farms, and corn plantations in southern Mexico.
Revised on November 14, 2019There are two species of palm-tanagers (Phaenicophilus) found on Hispaniola, the island comprised of the Dominican Republic (DR) and Haiti. One is the widespread Black-crowned Palm-Tanager (P. palmarum). The other […]
Revised on November 28, 2020Intensifying production while conserving biodiversity Food security and the ability of agricultural lands to feed over 9 billion people by 2050 is an increasingly-discussed topic. Part of this issue is […]
Revised on December 13, 2019
