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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…
1 week, 3 days 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…
1 week, 4 days 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…
1 week, 5 days 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…
1 week, 6 days 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…
2 weeks ago
The Eagle, the Cactus, and the City on the Lake
In one of the most iconic founding legends of the Americas, a Golden Eagle devouring a serpent atop a cactus marked the spot where the Mexicas would …
2 weeks, 1 day ago
Robins Nest On Moving Solar Arrays
Solar panels are a popular source of renewable energy, but large groupings of them — called arrays — can take up a lot of space. Chelse Prather, an e…
2 weeks, 2 days ago
BirdNoir: That Raptor’s an Impostor!
In this episode of BirdNoir, the Private Eye gets a call from his friend Frank, his eyes and ears in the neighborhood. He’s hearing a Red-shouldered …
2 weeks, 3 days ago
The Sword-billed Hummingbird
To out-sip their competition, Sword-billed Hummingbirds have a distinct adaptation: these birds’ beaks are longer than their bodies. Found in tempera…
2 weeks, 4 days ago
Feathered Females in Charge
Male birds are often the larger, flashier sex that courts choosy females, who in turn raise their chicks. But not always. Female phalaropes -- like t…
2 weeks, 5 days ago