...author of the excellent book "The Common Loon: Spirit of Northern Lakes" and the Internet's "Birds of North America" online series "The Common Loon," it is sometimes a single loon, the male, who is first to arrive on a lake used for...

...addition to mapping tools, ?The Birds of North America Online? series is free and accessible from a link through eBird. ?Birds of North America Online,? publishes virtually every bit of information known...

...said he wished he could have designed the Internet with security built-in. Microsoft Corp., Yahoo Inc. and America Online Inc., among others, are currently trying to retrofit the network so e-mail senders can be authenticated a way...