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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…
10 months, 3 weeks 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…
10 months, 3 weeks 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…
10 months, 3 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 …
10 months, 4 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…
10 months, 4 weeks ago
In Winter, Puffins Lead Very Different Lives
Every summer, puffins — like this Horned Puffin — grow blazingly colorful layers over the bases of their huge beaks. But in the winter, puffins lead …
10 months, 4 weeks ago
Double-jointed Hawks and Convergent Evolution
Crane Hawks of Central and South America and African Harrier-Hawks both have legs that bend forward and backward. Each bird’s wonderfully peculiar le…
11 months ago
Protecting the Madagascar Fish-Eagle
Biodiversity conservationist Lily-Arison Rene de Roland works with some of the rarest birds in the world. He’s the Madagascar program director for th…
11 months ago
Common Potoo: Branch or Bird?
Common Potoos are champions of camouflage. In the daytime these nocturnal creatures perch perfectly still on branches: heads pointed upward, bodies o…
11 months ago
The Gyrfalcon – A Circumpolar Raptor
Gyrfalcons are circumpolar, nesting in the far north of Asia, North America, and Europe, including Iceland and Greenland. They evolved as a distinct …
11 months ago