And Lo! The Birds are on the wing!

Our fine feathered friends are flyin’ high in the media this week from an orinthologically-dominated MEL to the feathery reflections of Jonathan Franzen in the New Yorker (reminding us to be kind to our web-footed friends, for a duck may be somebody’s mother) to the lead headline in today’s New York Observer (“Why Lachlan Flew the Coop: It Was Rupe”). The NYT is particularly excited about the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker, dragged back from the brink of exctinction by dogged orinthologists.