Category Archives: Birds
Bird-watching experts reveal their favorite apps
Ann Wessel, awessel@stcloudtimes.com11:12 p.m. CDT March 28, 2014 More birders are leaving the books at home and turning to apps as a lightweight, compact alternative. Even experienced bird-watchers find them useful while vacationing among unfamiliar species. Spindly … Continue reading
Minnesota DNR’s eagle cam draws viewers worldwide
Article by: JIM ADAMS , Star Tribune Updated: March 28, 2014 – 11:47 AM The DNR’s eagle cam has allowed people to see births of eaglets. Feeding time for the newly hatched eaglets, as captured by the … Continue reading
Texas Oil Spill Is Killing Birds, Threatening Fishing Industry
BY KATIE VALENTINE ON MARCH 28, 2014 AT 11:59 AM A lesser scaup is held for cleaning at a wildlife rescue site, Tuesday, March 25, 2014, in Baytown, Texas. CREDIT: AP PHOTO/PAT SULLIVAN Ship traffic may have reopened on Galveston Bay after a collision … Continue reading
Galveston Oil Spill Threatening Crucial Bird Refuge
Though smaller than the 2010 Gulf spill, this oil spill could still harm birds. An oil containment boom cuts across a sandbar covered with birds on Pelican Island near Galveston, Texas. PHOTOGRAPH BY SMILEY N. POOL, HOUSTON … Continue reading
Will a Movie About Birding Finally Get It Right?
It shouldn’t be so hard to make a bald eagle sound like a bald eagle. By Nicholas Lund Courtesy of Dreamfly Productions/Screen Media Films When Top Gun was released in 1986, the U.S. Navy saw a 500 percent increase in pilot recruits. The Karate … Continue reading
Record 127 Countries Participate in Bird Count
Snow geese, Canada geese most numerous species Posted: March 22, 2014 – 5:02pm By Marc Murrell Special to the Capital-Journal A new record was broken in the birding world, according to officials at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the National … Continue reading
Dan Suzio Photography Offering Workshop in Ecuador in September
Black-tailed trainbearer, female (left) and male Join me for a photography workshop in Ecuador With over 1,600 species in an area smaller than the state of Arizona, Ecuador’s diversity of birds is among the highest in the world. The country’s … Continue reading
Bird Cams eNews
Big Red’s secret surprise: the first egg of 2014! Watch the highlight. Big Red and Ezra Return! Big Red laid her first egg this year, March 19, 2014, just after1:00 P.M. EDT (watch the highlight). Nesting on the same light pole as … Continue reading
Why Do Birds Sing in the Morning?
BY MARY BATES 03.17.14 Photo: pam’s pics via Flickr. Distributed under a CC BY-NC 2.0 license. It’s that time of year: despite the still-freezing temperatures and lack of greenery, birds are beginning to think it’s spring. And in spring male birds’ … Continue reading
AUDUBON CALIFORNIA NEWS March 2014
Be a good beach goer this nesting season The Snowy Plover is one cute beach chick. Unfortunately, the Western Snowy Plover’s population numbers are anything but adorable. There are only about 2,300 birds remaining on our Pacific Coast and we … Continue reading
Cornell Lab eNews: Young Albatrosses Practice Their Courtship Moves
Young Albatrosses Practice Their Courtship Moves on Camera On a recent afternoon on Kauai, Hawaii, our Laysan Albatross cam caught an amazing moment of natural history when three young-adult albatrosses visited the month-old chick (named Kaloakulua). The young birds are between about … Continue reading
NestWatch eNewsletter – Help Barn Swallow Study
Researchers will study the effects of artificial light on the pace of life. Barn Swallows by Anne Elliott via Birdshare. NestWatchers Needed For New Barn Swallow Study We live in an incredibly well-lit world. All that wattage in heavily-populated areas creates … Continue reading
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Top 25 Wild Bird Photographs of the Week #63
Posted by Steve Boyes of National Geographic Expeditions in Explorers Journal on March 6, 2014 “Tree-catcher” White-breasted kingfishers are tree specialists that is widely distributed in Eurasia from Bulgaria, Turkey, W Asia all the way E to the Indian Subcontinent to the Philippines. (Prasanna … Continue reading
RSPB fears thousands of rare birds died in winter storms ’caused by climate change’
KASHMIRA GANDER Thursday 06 March 2014 Thousands of rare seabirds died in the extreme winter weather, according to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) who fear the storms were caused by climate change. The charity’s experts … Continue reading
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Animal Navigators
Biologists are discovering new details about how wild species find their way around 01-27-2014 // Doug Stewart ONE OF THE WONDERS OF THE NATURAL WORLD is the ability of salmon, after swimming thousands of miles in the ocean, to find … Continue reading
Landmark Arizona Birding Property Saved by Purchase
One of Best U.S. Sites for Hummingbirds Protected by Contributions from 1,000+ Birders (Washington, D.C., February 25, 2014) Paton’s Birder Haven, southeast Arizona’s mecca for thousands of birders worldwide, is now assured of long-term protection following a successful and … Continue reading
10 Tips for Photographing Birds
A professional photographer, and past Audubon Magazine Photo Awards winner, offers advice for capturing stunning bird shots. By Paul Bannick Published: 01/16/2014 I love to photograph birds. The variety of shapes, sizes, and colors–and what this diversity reveals about species’ … Continue reading