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The Eurasian Nuthatch

October 25, 2012 by Corey 6 Comments

We North Americans are spoiled with nuthatches. White-breasted and Red-breasted Nuthatches can be found across almost the entire continent, Brown-headed Nuthatches are common in...

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How Do You Know It’s A Ruby-crowned Kinglet?

October 24, 2012 by Larry 3 Comments

Ruby-Crowned Kinglet (Regulus calendula) photos by Larry Jordan If you live anywhere other than Western North America, you may be able to identify this...

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When birds attack!

by Duncan 4 Comments

It seems that my article last week on the dangers posed by birds struck a chord with the readers, many of whom posted their...

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What Makes You Stare So, Bufflehead?

October 23, 2012 by Mike 15 Comments

November visits upon New York dank, leaden chill and multitudes of ducks. I vastly prefer the latter, particularly those species that don’t frequent this...

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Tropicbird-Sunbittern relationship hypothesized in new paper

October 21, 2012 by David 2 Comments

The oldest division in the great avian tree lies between the ratites and tinamous (the paleognaths) and all other living birds (the neognaths). The...

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Ty’s Hawk

October 18, 2012 by Suzie 5 Comments

Of all the billions of things that keep wildlife rehabilitators from sleeping at night, public releases are one of the big ones. Ideally, we...

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Migration is Dangerous

October 17, 2012 by Corey 5 Comments

When songbirds endeavor to head hundreds or thousands of miles south they are risking everything in order to find a place that they can...

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The Many Faces of the Pine Warbler

October 16, 2012 by Nate 3 Comments

There’s really no more quintessentially southeastern bird than the Pine Warbler. You can argue that large waders of Florida are flashier or that the...

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