Month: December 2011 - Page 10

Reviews

The Atlas of Birds: Diversity, Behavior, and Conservation – A Book Review

December 9, 2011 by Donna 5 Comments

Be warned, The Atlas of Birds is not a map book, though it does contain maps, lovely orange and purple and green bird distribution...

News

Twitchers’ Vocabulary

by Corey No Comments

Seagull Steve clued me in to this awesome page of British birding slang.

News

Execute Her!

December 8, 2011 by Corey 9 Comments

Well, no, but does anyone out there have a good idea of how to deal with situations like these? For example, there is a...

Birding

Where Are You Birding This Second Weekend of December 2011?

by Mike 3 Comments

December owns an outsize reputation among months due to its status as the Northern Hemisphere’s gateway to winter, though hosting Christmas, Chanukah, Kwanzaa, Saturnalia,...

News

Can Eastern Canada’s Piping Plovers Be Saved?

by Corey No Comments

It’s “feasible.”

Birds

It’s time for a new understanding of tanagers

by David 4 Comments

The word “tanager” conjures certain images for most of us birder types. Maybe words like “colorful,” “beautiful,” “fruit,” and “tree.” But the tanager brand...

Birds

Common Mergansers or Goosanders Frolicking on Clear Creek

December 7, 2011 by Larry 3 Comments

Common Merganser (Mergus merganser) photos by Larry Jordan (click to enlarge) The Common Merganser (Mergus merganser americanus) or Goosander (Mergus merganser merganser) as it’s known in Europe, is a...

News

Where are the Shore Plovers going?

by Corey No Comments

Shore Plovers, a critically endangered species from New Zealand, have been reintroduced to several small islands off of New Zealand that were cleared of...

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