Margaret Kates
Reporter at Alabama Media Group
covering the AL Gulf for @aldotcom @alcommobile | Past: @chalkbeatCHI, @theprogressive, @washingtonian | New Orleanian | @medillschool alum
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1 week ago |
al.com | Margaret Kates
If you’re one of the many people hiking though Alabama’s forests this summer, you may want to look for the yellow-billed cuckoo. Good luck. Yellow-billed cuckoos tend to hide, high up in the trees in thick woodlands around the state. Though the birds are known for their distinctive yellow beaks, you might see them in a tree by spotting their long gray tail with white spots on the bottom, or their gray wings tinged with red.
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2 weeks ago |
al.com | Margaret Kates
These birds are a veritable rainbow, and you might be able to find them in Alabama this summer. But you’ll need to be sneaky because despite their brilliant colors, painted buntings tend to be somewhat secretive. “As brilliant as that male is out in the open, they have an uncanny ability to just disappear into vegetation that’s 5, 10 feet away from you,” said Andrew Lydeard, a program manager with the birder group Alabama Audubon.
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2 weeks ago |
al.com | Margaret Kates
Cullman County Sheriff Matthew Gentry is running for a spot on Alabama’s Public Service Commission. The three-member commission is responsible for regulating gas and electric utilities in the state, including Alabama Power. “That’s one thing that most people don’t think about or know about, but that’s a position that affects all citizens across Alabama, whether it’s in Cullman County or Baldwin County,” Gentry told AL.com.
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2 weeks ago |
al.com | Margaret Kates
A new project that would use water to generate electricity could be coming to Sand Mountain in northeast Alabama. “It’s going to change everything,” said Shane Groves, a Jackson County resident. “The whole community, the whole geography, everything is going to be different.”The Tennessee Valley Authority, the federal utility responsible for providing power to millions of people in north Alabama and parts of six other states in the southeast, has proposed a “pumped storage hydropower” facility.
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2 weeks ago |
al.com | Margaret Kates
An 8,000-acre nature preserve in the Mobile-Tensaw River Delta — one of the most biodiverse places on Earth — will be named for one of Alabama’s most famous scientists: E.O. Wilson.
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