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Lee Ann Roripaugh: Utsuroi
Today is the Autumnal Equinox, when the sun crosses the equator and day and night are of approximately equal length across the globe. In her poem ‘Utsuroi’, writer Lee Ann Roripaugh reflects on how, …
Published on 2 months, 4 weeks ago
Southern Lapwings Defend Their Nest
Nature educator Johanne Ryan shares her observations of Southern Lapwings, shorebirds that make their nests on the ground in open areas and vigorously defend them. If a potential predator approaches,…
Published on 3 months ago
T and Dart
Author Kira Jane Buxton loves crows — so much that she’s written two novels about a crow named S.T. navigating the extinction of humanity. When she was writing those books, she tried befriending the …
Published on 3 months ago
Williamson's Sapsucker
Williamson's Sapsuckers nest in western mountain forests. The radically different plumages of the male and female so confounded 19th-century naturalists that, for nearly a decade, the birds were thou…
Published on 3 months ago
A Lost Hummingbird is Found Again
The Santa Marta Sabrewing is a hummingbird species so rare, they’ve only been documented twice in recent years. Native to the mountains of Colombia, they were officially described in 1946. No one rep…
Published on 3 months ago
Thick-billed Euphonia – Deceitful Mimic
Northern Mockingbirds can learn to mimic the sounds of just about any bird. They mimic to show off, not to deceive. But this Thick-billed Euphonia, a tiny songbird in South America, employs what scie…
Published on 3 months ago
Bicknell's Thrush
The Bicknell’s Thrush is known for scarcity… and promiscuity. Unlike most songbirds, the female thrush establishes a territory and then mates with males that happen by. She then lays eggs that have b…
Published on 3 months ago
The Delightfully Odd Magellanic Plover
The Magellanic Plover is known for being a bit of an oddball. These shorebirds have a round body like a dove and even feed their young with milk produced in a part of their digestive system called th…
Published on 3 months ago
Where Birds Sleep
All birds need to sleep — or at least snooze — sometime during each 24-hour period. And most sleep at night. A bird, like a Mallard Duckling, may turn its head around and warm its beak under its shou…
Published on 3 months, 1 week ago
The Music of Birds Migrating in the Night
Ornithologist Bill Evans has helped us better understand the sounds that birds make as they migrate at night. Known as nocturnal flight calls, many species can be identified based on their signature …
Published on 3 months, 1 week ago