 At The Eyrie, the ABA’s Young Birder blog, Jennie Duberstein interviews newly minted young birder of the year, Teodelina Martelli. Birds have fascinated me for as long as I can remember—I started drawing when I was three and it was birds, birds, and more birds. I even have pictures of my dad, my sister, and [read more…] 
At All About Birds, (and an upcoming issue of Living Bird), Amanda Rodewald and Ken Rosenberg discuss the various types of migratory bird stopover habitat and why protecting each is critical for the conservation of these birds. But those pit stops, more properly called “mid-migration stopover sites” by ornithologists, have been a bit of a [read more…]
eBird‘s Global Big Day was a huge success, with just shy of 7,000 species recorded in a single day. You can find the round-up here. Importantly, this impossibly fun event also provides valuable information to help the birds we all care about. eBirders gathered more than 1.6 million bird sightings on 5 May, which are [read more…] Catharus thrushes are pulsing though the ABA Area right now, and posing some identification challenges along the way. At the Vermont Center for Ecostudies Blog, Kent McFarland writes about a weird phenomenon that might make things even harder. But then, quite near the Veery was its very close cousin, a Bicknell’s Thrush calling. “How fascinating [read more…]
They may be beady-eyed killing machines, but Mia McPherson of On the Wing Photography manages to catch Loggerhead Shrikes in a more tender moment. The Loggerhead Shrike did fly in and brought prey to feed the presumed female, during the mating season the males will allofeed the females as part of their courtship behavior. I’ve [read more…]
Spring means time to reflect on migratory birds but also time to reflect on how we, as birders, fit into things. At Avian Ecologist, Jessica Gorzo shares what she loves most about being a birding. Once I invested the time, though, and learned more about the birds around me, it has brought some neat benefits [read more…] Meet newly minted ABA Young Birder of the Year Adam Dhalla, interviewed at The Eyrie. Yes, I started birding around five years ago when I was seven. The bird that really got me started, or my ‘spark bird’ was definitely the majestic Snowy Owl. It was December 2012, and after hearing about the huge [read more…] A fun story of Montana birding by Sneed Collard at Father-Son Birding. This year we headed out Monday morning, March 26 (Spring Break), hoping to find an abundance of the white birds. We first stopped in Great Falls to observe a good variety of ducks, especially Common Goldeneyes, on the Missouri River. Making our [read more…]
The origin of American Flamingos in Florida, with its myriad zoos and animal parks, has always been a little bit of a mystery, but as Liz Langley writes in National Geographic, the evidence increasingly suggests that they are naturally occurring. In the study, published recently in The Condor: Ornithological Applications, the authors pored over historical [read more…]
Yes yard-listing can be fun, but it’s limited. Steve Tucker at Bourbon, Bastards, and Birds is here to introduce to you the idea of the five-mile radius. The idea (my interpretation) is that you should bird a lot within your 5MR, because almost everyone should be birding more locally than they already are. Less fuel [read more…] |
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