Even Grist online magazine is talking Important Bird Areas now, featuring a map created by Audubon Alaska.
(Photo: East Sitkalidak Island by Stacy Studebaker, US Fish & Wildlife Service. Stacy is a Kodiak Island resident.)
By Beth Peluso
January 14, 2013
HOTSPOT: Flyover of California's Birds and Biodiversity
California is a global biodiversity hotspots, with one of the greatest concentrations of living species on Earth.