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BirdNoir: Nestboxes and Snake Skins
Private Eye Michael Stein investigates a possible break in when a kindly neighbor fears a snake has attacked a nestbox occupied by nesting Great Cres…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
An App That Helps You Hear High-Pitched Bird Songs
For years, nature recordist Lang Elliott came up with clever ways to hear high-pitched bird songs despite his high-frequency hearing loss. Lang teame…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Parrots Using Video Chat to Keep in Touch
Knowing how clever parrots are, researchers wanted to see how they’d respond to another parrot saying hi on a tablet or phone. After being trained ho…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Milkweed: A Whole Ecosystem on a Plant
Milkweed plants are important to Monarch butterflies, which depend on milkweed to raise their caterpillars. But Monarchs aren’t the only ones who ben…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
J. Drew Lanham’s Sparrow Envy
It’s National Poetry Month in the U.S., and each year we like to celebrate by sharing our favorite contemporary writers’ work about birds. Ornitholog…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Songbirds Migrate Across the Gulf of Mexico
In spring, millions of songbirds — like the Orchard Oriole — migrate north across the Gulf of Mexico, from the Yucatan to the southeastern U.S. When …
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
The Scissor-tailed Flycatcher nests in the open country of Texas, Oklahoma, and the south-central region. It's an elegant bird with a slender, deeply…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
American Tree Sparrow
The American Tree Sparrow is a common winter visitor in the northern U.S. Despite their name, these sparrows stay close to the ground. When foraging,…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Pigeons Make Milk
Pigeons, one of the most ancient of domesticated animals, feed their nestlings a peculiar, milky substance, straight from the adult’s beak to the bab…
1 month, 4 weeks ago
Planting Oaks for Birds
Oak trees are an important resource for birds finding insects to feed their young. It takes thousands of caterpillars from an oak tree to raise a sin…
1 month, 4 weeks ago