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Andean Condors Sail the Wind
The Andean Condor is one of the largest flying birds in the world. With a wingspan that can stretch over 10 feet across, the condor doesn’t flap so m…
6 months, 1 week ago
Sandhill Crane Families Stick Together
Sandhill Crane families form a close bond. A pair of adults might travel north with their young from the previous summer, along with grown-up offspri…
6 months, 1 week ago
Seabirds, Trees and Coral
Palmyra Atoll is a ring-shaped island encircling a lagoon in the South Pacific. The atoll lost many native trees due to U.S. military activity during…
6 months, 1 week ago
Museum Eggs Help Solve Mysteries
There are five million bird eggs stowed away in museums across the world — and the study of eggs, called oology, can give us great insight into birds…
6 months, 1 week ago
Kiwikiu
Kiwikiu, also known as Maui Parrotbill, used to be found all over Maui and Molokaʻi. Now, fewer than 150 individuals exist and kiwikiu are currently …
6 months, 1 week ago
Altitudinal Migration
Yellow-eyed Juncos sometimes make a migration of sorts — not from north to south, but from the high mountains to the lowlands or the other way around…
6 months, 1 week ago
How Art Inspired a Young Birder
Isaiah Scott was in middle school when his family took him to visit the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. He remembers seeing a huge mural showing hundreds…
6 months, 1 week ago
A Song That Has Survived for Thousands of Years
Sometimes, a species’ song changes over the course of a few decades. But a bird that lives in the mountains of eastern Africa, the Forest Double-coll…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
What Do Woodpeckers Do on Smoky Days?
When the air is thick with wildfire smoke, people are advised to stay home. At Hastings Natural History Preserve in California, Acorn Woodpeckers do …
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Paradise-Whydah
A few times each year, the Eastern Paradise-Whydah puts on his party clothes. This small finch is found in East Africa, and males and females general…
6 months, 2 weeks ago