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Dovekie At Sea
Dovekie are robin-sized seabirds related to auks and puffins. Their compact, black-and-white bodies are perfect for life on the water. In winter, bir…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
The Lustrous Purple Gallinule
What’s the most colorful bird in the U.S.? The Scarlet Tanager? Maybe the Painted Bunting? Well, consider one more lustrous candidate: the Purple Gal…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
Chestnut-collared Longspur
The cheerful-voiced Chestnut-collared Longspur shares their northern prairie breeding range with grazing cattle. Although heavy grazing can have adve…
3 months ago
Flying Dinosaurs: Leaping and Gliding
For years, scientists debated whether the first flying dinosaurs, the ancestors of modern birds, began by running and making little hops off the grou…
3 months ago
Hilarious Bird Sounds With Becca Rowland
Birds make a lot of sounds — so many that author and illustrator Becca Rowland had a hard time keeping them straight. That was until Becca began pick…
3 months ago
Create Bird Habitat at Home with Native Plants
Birds have lost many habitats they’ve called home for millions of years, but people can help create bird habitats wherever they live. It all begins w…
3 months ago
The Joy of Robins with J. Drew Lanham
J. Drew Lanham is a poet and ornithologist whose work intertwines his lived experience as a Black man in the American south and his love of wildernes…
3 months ago
Millicent Ficken Studied How Birds Play
Millicent Ficken spent her career studying bird behavior and communication. The first woman to earn a PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Co…
3 months ago
The Vulture's Iron Stomach
Circling silently above the earth on broad, black wings, vultures need little introduction. We know them as nature's clean-up crew, dining on dead an…
3 months ago
Lifer Pie
In birding lingo, a lifer — or life bird — is any species you see or hear for the first time. Birders get very excited about lifers. Some even mark t…
3 months, 1 week ago