Great serpent mound in Adams County, Ohio. Wikimedia Commons.

Mysterious Mounds: Birding the Ancient Ohio Trail

By the time Christopher Columbus first reached America in 1492, they were already at least a millennium old. What were they? Mounds: human-made earthworks of unbelievable size and variety, dotting the entire eastern half of North America. Some were conical mounds, others earthen walls, embankments, flat-topped platform mounds, and effigy mounds constructed in the shapes […]

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