Birding the Piney Tract
posted about 10 hours ago and has 0 comments
Henslow’s Sparrows are known to be skulkers, and this one had apparently been well-briefed. His ventriloquil call seemed almost to taunt us: neither here nor there and always a step ahead in the tall grass. Yet I was thrilled to hear each subdued ...
West Nile Virus Hits Common Birds Hard
posted 13 days ago and has 1 comment
What are the most common bird species in and around your yard? Chances are they’re significantly less common today due to West Nile Virus. While many humans have become ill and nearly 1,000 have died -- making it the most deadly mosquito-borne dis...
Mysterious Marsh Birds
posted 24 days ago and has 0 comments
When is the last time you went birding in a salt or freshwater marsh? Many birders fail to acquire a taste for marsh birding. After all, marshes don’t rank high on many folks’ lists of comfortable, relaxing places to hang out on the planet. They’r...
Why Do Birds Sing?
posted about 1 month ago and has 1 comment
For millions of years before the first humans sung a tune or carved a flute, the birds -- and who knows, perhaps even the dinosaurs and other beings before them -- have been singing. Even more so than the patterns and colors of their feathers and ...
International Migratory Bird Day
posted about 1 month ago, updated 35 minutes later and has 0 comments
Many migratory birds travel vast distances across the Western Hemisphere between their non-breeding areas and breeding grounds. So they’re global citizens -- just like we humans are. Birds know nothing about borders or countries or environmental l...
Birding Your Patch
posted 2 months ago and has 0 comments
There’s a great tradition in birding -- which “twitchers” (their word for “birders”) in Great Britain are especially keen on -- that is referred to as “birding your patch.” It’s simply the practice, day by day, season by season, and year by year, ...
Our food choices are killing our birds
posted 2 months ago, updated 16 minutes later and has 0 comments
Oftentimes we like to think that it’s “them” -- somebody else, not us -- who is responsible for the catastrophic population declines of so many of our birds. But that is not the case. The choices each of us make every day collectively results in t...
April showers bring… early spring birds!
posted 3 months ago and has 2 comments
Practically everyone associates the arrival of spring with the return of migrating birds. In fact, birds are migrating back and forth across North America in every month of the year. It’s a lot more complex and interesting than just “some kinds of...
The Squirrel Conundrum
posted 3 months ago, updated 2 minutes later and has 2 comments
Squirrel! Just say the word and many backyard birdwatchers draw a battle line. On one side: amazing agility, determination and cleverness. On the other: ropes, pulleys, baffles, flingers, flippers, zappers, clappers, and much gnashing of teeth. An...
Saving the Red Knot
posted 3 months ago, updated 2 minutes later and has 1 comment
Many Eons birders are probably aware that, in the current (and long-standing) political climate of heedless environmental pillaging, many birds and other species hover at the brink of extinction yet -- despite tireless efforts -- are not yet liste...
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