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Sapsuckers
Sapsuckers drill small holes in the bark of favored trees, then return again and again to eat the sap that flows out. And hummingbirds, kinglets, and…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
An Ever-Growing Library of Bird Sounds
Most of the bird sounds you hear on BirdNote come from the Macaulay Library, a vast collection of over one million bird calls and songs curated by th…
8 months, 4 weeks ago
Moon-Watching for Migrating Birds
Before the high-tech gadgets used to track bird migration today, there was moon-watching: a technique dreamed up in the 1940s by ornithologist George…
8 months, 4 weeks ago
How Jays Helped Restore an Oak Forest
Corvids, like crows and jays, are known for caching seeds instead of eating them immediately. Sometimes, those seeds take root before the birds retur…
8 months, 4 weeks ago
Migrations: Indigo Bunting, Master Stargazer
The stars appear to rotate in the sky, raising the question of how birds can use stars to navigate during migration. Ornithologist Stephen Emlen brou…
9 months ago
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 ‘Ut…
9 months 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 vigorousl…
9 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 w…
9 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 naturali…
9 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, …
9 months ago