Nickerson Beach, Nassau County, New York, July 2011 Common Terns nest in colonies. The sheer number of birds packed together offer some protection to...
The Killdeer is a wide-ranging plover. It breeds across much of North America, is present year-round in the Caribbean, northern Central America, and the...
Any worthwhile discussion of baby birds will wisely lean heavily towards young shorebirds, which are surely among the most adorable of all immature avifauna....
Bufflehead (Bucephala albeola) Female at Cavity Entrance photos by Larry Jordan “Some 85 species of North American birds excavate nesting holes, use cavities resulting...
Mute Swans are large, white, and decorative, and as such their natural range has been significantly altered by humans who generally enjoy having them...
Life is hard for baby birds, as the world is filled with reasons why they might not make it too adulthood. Starvation and predators...
Nick Sly, a friend of 10,000 Birds who writes intermittently at the thoroughly-recommended Biological Ramblings, is an ornithologist who graduated not so long ago from...
Baby Bird week couldn’t come at a better time for someone in the High Arctic, suddenly there are birds hatching everywhere. Baby birds here,...
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