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High Island, Texas
Each spring, millions of songbirds migrate north from the tropics to nest in North America. It takes 15 hours on average to cross the roughly 500 mil…
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Poetry Month: Susan Nguyen
For National Poetry Month, we’re sharing contemporary writers’ work about birds. Poet Susan Nguyen got a hummingbird feeder from her neighbor in 2020…
2 years, 2 months ago
A Hawk That Hunts in Packs
Most raptors are solitary birds, but Harris’s Hawks of the southwestern U.S. live and hunt in groups of two to six. After spotting a prey animal, the…
2 years, 2 months ago
Two Wings and a Tail
The Wilson's Snipe lives in marshes and muddy areas, where it probes for worms and other squirmy delights. But when spring comes, it takes to the air…
2 years, 2 months ago
An April Fool's Birdsong Quiz
In this April Fool’s Day quiz from BirdNote, we play the sounds of three birds — only one of which is real. See if you can tell which one, and let us…
2 years, 2 months ago
Flying with Birds and Bats
Bats and birds have evolved very different ways of flying. Birds have stiff feathers projecting from lightweight, fused arm and hand bones; bats have…
2 years, 2 months ago
The Warbler That Loves Pines
The Pine Warbler is one of the few warblers that make appearances at bird feeders. They live year round in pine forests of the southeast U.S. and sev…
2 years, 2 months ago
Listen for Tapping
Woodpeckers are our most familiar bird carpenters, but other birds also chip out nests in trees and wood structures. Nuthatches — like this Red-breas…
2 years, 2 months ago
Using Sound to Bring Rails Back into Wetlands
Rails are secretive marsh birds, and they’re on the decline. But a researcher playing their recorded calls over a loudspeaker could help bring them b…
2 years, 2 months ago
BirdNoir: A Dark and Stormy Night
In this episode of BirdNoir, Private Eye Michael Stein gets a call from his friend Billy, a mail carrier. Billy says he hasn’t seen a single bird on …
2 years, 2 months ago