If you live on any decent-sized landmass anywhere in the Northern Hemisphere, chances are waxwings occasionally wing your way. Waxwings are dapper passerine birds...
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Though Cedar Waxwings are known for their preference for eating fruit, they are actually also accomplished flycatchers. Daisy and I had the great pleasure...
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It may be mid-summer now, but hawkwatch season is right around the corner. Time to start brushing up on hawks, eagles, falcons, and vultures!...
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One of the most persistent myths in the annals of avifauna has to be the prohibition on handling even the most imperiled chick or...
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Years of building, then burning giant, flammable wooden chickens gets one to wondering about the magical multiformity of the world’s most popular poultry. Farms...
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If I have some time to spare I like to take back roads from place to place. Not only does this allow me to...
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A Green Heron at Five Rivers in Delmar, NY, was my trigger bird, so I was pleased the last time I was there to...
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A story in pictures…roll over the images for pop-up captions. Once the female House Sparrow was driven off the males turned to fighting each...
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