Tag: banding

Birds

Starlings and Eagles

October 11, 2013 by Carrie 1 Comment

It required a bit of an ethical adjustment. Here I was, sitting patiently in a blind, watching a tethered European Starling on a string....

Birds

Watch for Shorebirds with Colored Flags!

October 9, 2013 by Alfredo Begazo 12 Comments

As I write this note, probably hundreds if not thousands of shorebirds are heading south to the wintering grounds. Some make stopovers along Florida’s...

Trips

Banded Semipalmated Sandpipers at Big Egg Marsh, Queens, New York

May 27, 2013 by Corey 1 Comment

Now that passerine migration has largely wound down the attention of this New York birder has shifted to seabirds, shorebirds, and the occasional trip...

Birds

Banded Ground Cuckoo – Neomorphus radiolosus – in Ecuador

October 6, 2012 by Renato 8 Comments

Ecuador was made for birdwatchers! A tiny country filled with biodiversity which can be easily reached in a short drive… Well, maybe that is...

Birds

The Joy of Letting Go

September 28, 2012 by Walter 7 Comments

It is fall migration season and the birds are flying. We have had quite a run of birds overhead as they stream down along...

Birds

A Bird in the Hand: American Kestrels

July 20, 2012 by Walter 14 Comments

Baby birds are on the brain this week. I recently helped out with an American Kestrel nest box program and got some close encounters...

Birding

Bird Banding at Braddock Bay Bird Observatory

September 26, 2011 by Mike 5 Comments

Mention that you’re interested in watching birds in Western New York, and someone will invariably ask you if you’ve been to Braddock Bay. The...

Conservation

Want to Go Bird Banding in Amazonian Peru?

March 7, 2011 by Mike 8 Comments

I bet you do! I recently heard from Chris Kirkby, the Managing Director and Principal Investigator at Asociacion Fauna Forever, a Peruvian not-for-profit organisation based...

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