When Josephine Jacobsen was appointed to the first of two consecutive terms as Poetry Consultant to the Library of Congress (now Poet Laureate) in 1971, she was acknowledged, at sixty-three, as a poet of the first rank, the author of four collections of...

"Ouch!" I jerked my finger out of the fiddler crabs burrow in the black mud. Hanging on was a little fiddler, with its outsized pincers biting into my finger. At the time, I was four years old, exploring with my grandfather. I...

Catherine E. deRivera [1] ABSTRACT. --On 17 occasions in Chula Vista, California, at least one Belding's Savannah Sparrow (Passerculus sandwichensis beldingi) was observed chasing egg-carrying female fiddler crabs (Uca crenulata) and pecking eggs from ones it caught. Sparrows did not eat any...

Ospreys and turkey vultures soar above cypress trees as kayaks glide on the water, passing by herons scouting for fish and fiddler crabs scurrying along a narrow strip of shoreline. Bill Portlock, senior...