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‘The Bird-Watchers’ of Memphis: tracking ICE flights and documenting detainees In shackles

  • Meghnad Bose

This story was originally published by the Institute for Public Service Reporting Memphis.  On a Saturday morning in July, Joni Laney, a 73-year-old retired English teacher, parked her car in a small lot overlooking Wilson Air Center near Memphis International Airport. She had received word from her group of fellow volunteers that a flight there […]

New Hampshire

Rogue puffins visit NH to source snacks, but breeding colonies unlikely for the Granite State

  • Molly Rains

Every summer, New Hampshire’s seacoast draws visitors in droves, from sunbathing tourists to ravenous greenhead horseflies. Less expected are Atlantic puffins, which are rare in the state year-round and in summertime become so uncommon that a sighting triggers a statewide birdwatching alert. One of those alerts went out early this July, when eBird user Braden […]