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Great Horned Owls in the Neighborhood
Not all owls live in the deep woods. Many Great Horned Owls make their homes in urban areas. Though mostly nocturnal, Great Horned Owls are also acti…
3 hours ago
Seabirds Drink Salt Water
Seabirds have no problem drinking sea water. The salt they take in is absorbed and moves through their blood stream into a pair of salt glands above …
1 day, 3 hours ago
Songbirds Teach Each Other Tricks
In the UK for years, milk came in bottles with foil caps. Great Tits, a common songbird, learned how to peck through the foil. The skill spread. But …
2 days, 3 hours ago
The Sound of a Thousand Geese Taking Off at Once
During migration, Snow Geese gather in the tens of thousands. They coordinate their movements, flying in a big, compact flock, which makes it harder …
3 days, 3 hours ago
A Bird of Two Colors
Related to shearwaters and petrels, the Northern Fulmar will eat just about anything it finds on the surface of the ocean, from fish and squids to de…
4 days, 3 hours ago
At the Escarpment
Long, upward slopes called escarpments offer a good chance of seeing some of the many raptor species found in Belize. Shaped like a compact Red-taile…
5 days, 3 hours ago
Clean Nestboxes in October
It’s a wistful moment when your backyard birds — like these Black-capped Chickadees — depart their nestboxes. By October, it’s time for one last duty…
6 days, 3 hours ago
Prairie Warblers — An Early Successional Species
Despite their name, Prairie Warblers nest in tree farms of recently planted pines, in fields overgrown with scattered shrubs, and in clearings under …
1 week ago
How Evolution Reshaped the Woodcock
Evolution works with what's at hand. So if you start with a normal bird skull – bill pointing forward, eyes oriented front or sideways, ears behind e…
1 week, 1 day ago
Spark Bird: Chidi Paige and the Yellow Warbler
When Chidi Paige moved from Nigeria to the U.S., she began running a youth STEM program and had to teach lessons on bird identification. She was in f…
1 week, 2 days ago