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Bloggers rarely have the opportunity to put a face to the name, to encounter in what techies call “meatspace” the folks we know so well in cyberspace. This is, for the most part, a good thing. A blog allows a person to project a selective profile, either a fragmented, focused self or an idealized, extra-eloquent [...]

Just yesterday, I received a interesting plea for assistance: I googled birds + Puerto Rico and yours was the first and best site to come up. I hope you can help us. We were just in PR visiting family and we came across this bird. My sister gave it to my uncle who has a [...]

Two owls in the Genus Strix populate North America. The first of these, the Barred Owl, is highly adaptable, common throughout the eastern United States and much of Canada, and in the process of expanding its range. The second, the  Spotted Owl, is sedentary, rare, and specialized, requiring very specific habitat to survive. The two [...]

While writing up yesterday’s post, my inherent weakness for alliteration got the better of me. I eagerly described the season’s bounty of warblers as a “procession of precious passerines.” Now, it is definitely not my style to insert the word “precious” into a conversation, but it seemed to fit with the surrounding words. Yet, when [...]

All good things, as they say, must come to an end. Predictably, spring migration, with its succession of stunning songbirds, is one of them. Too bad the waves of warblers had to wane so soon. Although family commitments kept the Core Team occupied in Connecticut for most of the weekend, I had the opportunity to [...]

This month’s evocative avian verse comes from American author and poet, Sara Teasdale (1884 – 1933). Her poem, Dusk in June is short and sweet: Evening, and all the birds In a chorus of shimmering sound Are easing their hearts of joy For miles around. The air is blue and sweet, The few first stars [...]